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Filmmaking in a Box: Indie Feature Film (PostProduction)
You can spend tens of thousands of dollars on film school, you can work as a production assistant for a decade and hope to move up the ladder or you canGET OUT THERE AND MAKE YOUR OWN MOVIE! FILMSCHOOLIN A BOX shows you in every possible detail how one team of Hollywood professionals made,and commercially released, a movie on a micro-budget of $100,000. YOU CAN TOO!
FILMSCHOOLIN A BOXis unlike anything youve ever seen. Seriously.They DON'Tteach you this in Film School!
If youre a lover of movies who dreams of getting behind the camera, you know you own dozens of DVDs with behind-the-scens material that youve watched 100 times. Right?
But, seriously When are you going to get the chance to be standing in a field surrounded by 10,000 extras all in custom-made armor filming with 20 cameras? Chances are your first film (or even your second or third) are going to besignificantlysmaller in scale than that
FILMSCHOOL IN A BOXis theultimatebehind-the-scenes look at the making of amicro-budget(meaning REALISTIC BUDGET!) feature film. This is a look into how a professional near-no-budget film is made with EVERY DETAIL available at your fingertips!
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"It shares the kind of lessons that can usually only be learned by doing. Not a lecture, not a seminar, just the honest, accurate, moment-to-moment account of everything it takes to put a film together."
Earl Newton, Executive Producer/CreatorStranger Things
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How Can FILMMAKER IN A BOX Help You?
In this installment we will be discuss the prep before we shot the feature film. ThePOSTPRODUCTIONPHASEwhere we go over:
- Finding an Editor
- The Editor's Audition
- The Film Editing Process
- The Rough Cut
- Test Screenings
- Finding Music
- Contracts
- Sound Editing
- ADR
- and much more...
FIBexamines the EVERY detail of the making of an independent movie called2 Million Stupid Women(a comedy written by a woman!), which was made for only $100,000, made within the Hollywood system.
Filmmaking IN A BOXhas tonof INCREDIBLY detailed behind-the-scenes interviews and footage covering every stage of the prep, production and post-production. Youll get interviews and conversations with all key members of the production team: the director, the producers, the writer, the cinematographers, the editor, the production sound mixer, the post production sound designer, the assistant director and more! These are not marketing fluff interviews these areuncensored, honestandstraight-to-the-pointdiscussions about every pitfall, conflict and negotiation required to complete the project.
In addition you also gethundredsof pages of the actual documents used to make the film: the full budget (yes! the REAL full budget, line by line see how the money was spent), the schedule, call sheets, every contract, directors notes and MORE.
FILMSCHOOL IN A BOXwill take you, step-by-step, through the exact process this team took to mount an independent feature film from the ground up.FILMFILMSCHOOLIN A BOXshines a light on every potential misstep and lucky break that can fall into a first-time (or second or third!) filmmakers lap.
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"I wish something like this existed when I was starting out... No bulls**t; the next best thing to actually being there with the filmmakers while they were making it!"
Mark Bell, Owner/Publisher/Editor-in-Chief,FilmThreat
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FIBis a must-own for anyone thinking of making their first, secondor even thirdfeature film
It is beyond anything you can learn from film school or filmmaking tips in a book.
This is as close to the experience of actually making a movie as you can get without actually doing it.
Through candid, first-hand anecdotes, hard-earned by actual independent filmmakers,FILMSCHOOL IN A BOXwill help prepare you for what to expect before you ever step foot on set. Whether youre prepping your first film, or youre simply curious what goes into making an independent film,FILMMAKINGIN A BOXis anessentialtool of every aspiring filmmaker or video creator.
If you've got the dream.
If you've got the drive.
If you've got the passion - but you're missing the knowledge and experience...Film School in a Box will help you make your film into a reality.
Enroll NOWand learn how to make a low budget feature film! Let's get started!
Updated on 14 November, 2018 - Read Less