Selling Your Film Without Selling Your Soul

Selling Your Film Without Selling Your Soul Review

SELLING YOUR FILM WITHOUT SELLING YOUR SOUL is the first book to strip away the mythology surrounding independent film distribution to present the real picture on revenue earned from a variety of release strategies. This book highlights a multitude of new techniques filmmakers are using to directly connect their films with audiences, effectively reach them through the power of the global Internet and build a sustainable fan base to last throughout a career.

Within the pages of this book, you will find marketing and crowdfunding strategies, real distribution budgets, community building activities and detailed ancillary and digital distribution revenues for independently produced films such as: Ride The Divide, The Cosmonaut, The Best and The Brightest, Sita Sings the Blues, Note by Note, Bass Ackwards, Adventures of Power, Violet Tendencies, American: The Bill Hicks Story, Undertow, For the Bible Tells Me So, and the webseries Pioneer One.

The Film Encyclopedia 6e: The Complete Guide to Film and the Film Industry

The Film Encyclopedia 6e: The Complete Guide to Film and the Film Industry Review

Ephraim Katz's The Film Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive single-volume encyclopedia on film and is considered the undisputed bible of the film industry. Completely revised and updated, this sixth edition features more than 7,500 A-Z entries on the artistic, technical, and commercial aspects of moviemaking, including:

• Directors, producers, actors, screenwriters, and cinematographers
• Styles, genres, and schools of filmmaking
• Motion picture studios and film centers
• Film-related organizations and events
• Industry jargon and technical terms
• Inventions, inventors, and equipment
• And much more!

Fatalism in American Film Noir: Some Cinematic Philosophy (Page-Barbour Lectures)

Fatalism in American Film Noir: Some Cinematic Philosophy (Page-Barbour Lectures) Review

The crime melodramas of the 1940s known now as film noir shared many formal and thematic elements, from unusual camera angles and lighting to moral ambiguity and femmes fatales. In this book Robert Pippin argues that many of these films also raise distinctly philosophical questions. Where most Hollywood films of that era featured reflective individuals living with purpose, taking action and effecting desired consequences, the typical noir protagonist deliberates and plans, only to be confronted by the irrelevance of such deliberation and by results that contrast sharply, often tragically, with his or her intentions or true commitments. Pippin shows how this terrible disconnect sheds light on one of the central issues in modern philosophy--the nature of human agency. How do we distinguish what people do from what merely happens to them? Looking at several film noirs--including close readings of three classics of the genre, Fritz Lang’s Scarlet Street, Orson Welles’s The Lady from Shanghai, and Jacques Tourneur’s Out of the Past--Pippin reveals the ways in which these works explore the declining credibility of individuals as causal centers of agency, and how we live with the acknowledgment of such limitations.

Humphrey Bogart: A Life In Film (Movie Greats)

Humphrey Bogart: A Life In Film (Movie Greats) Review

Thanks to iconic roles in films such as The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart was and is known as a “tough guy.” Yet the more complicated truth about him has, until now, remained out of focus. We have gone thundering past the intersection where personal history and screen character meet and mutually inform each other, argues legendary, award-winning film critic Richard Shickel. In this book, he lingers at that crossroads and contemplates the evidence about who and what Bogie really was.

Bette Davis, A Life In Film (Movie Greats)

Bette Davis, A Life In Film (Movie Greats) Review

Edgy, wayward, domineering, and endlessly watchable, Bette Davis daringly supplied the equivalent qualities for the genre films that marked her career - and made them her own. Her pictures all ran on her energy and stand the test of time because of the tensile strength, that inimitable electroplating of heedlessness and vulnerability, her soul’s chemistry provided them. The creation of this screen personality was no easy matter, and Davis’ battle to develop and establish it is the topic of this brief book by Time magazine’s legendary film critic Richard Schickel.

The Creative Artist's Legal Guide: Copyright, Trademark and Contracts in Film and Digital Media Production

The Creative Artist's Legal Guide: Copyright, Trademark and Contracts in Film and Digital Media Production Review

In today's complex media environment, aspiring filmmakers and new media artists are as vulnerable as swimmers in shark-infested waters. This user-friendly guide supplies creative artists with the essential legal concepts needed to swim safely with lawyers, agents, executives, and other experts in intellectual property and business law.

How do I copyright my screenplay? How can I clear rights for my film project? What can I do to avoid legal trouble when I produce my mockumentary? How do I ascertain whether a vintage novel is in the public domain? Is the trademark I've invented for my production company available? What about copyright and trademark rights overseas? If I upload my film to YouTube, do I give up any rights?

Bill Seiter and Ellen Seiter answer these questions and countless others while also demystifying the fundamental principles of intellectual property. Clear and thorough, this plain-spoken and practical guide is essential for anyone seeking to navigate the rapidly changing media environment of today.

Girls on Film: An A-List Novel

Girls on Film: An A-List Novel Review

Girls on Film is the wickedly funny and risque sequel to the bestselling A-List that takes readers behind the scenes of the intoxicating world of Hollywood glitterati. Seventeen year-old Anna ("pronounced Aaaanah") Percy has moved from posh Manhattan to the evcen more posh Beverly Hills, California, where she's living with her estranged dad for the rest of the school year while her mother travels to Europe with a friend. The fast times of Beverly Hills most beautiful and glamorous people drive the page-turning action of this irresistible, stylishly written novel.

FILMMAKING 101: Ten Essential Lessons for the Noob Filmmaker

FILMMAKING 101: Ten Essential Lessons for the Noob Filmmaker Review

If you've ever toyed with the idea of becoming a filmmaker but never acted on it, this primer for filmmaking will get you started in the right direction. Here is an overview of the key areas of filmmaking: screenwriting, directing, cinematography, sound, editing, and producing. Plus, a look at documentary and low budget production strategies. The "ten essential lessons" are a compilation of several articles and lessons from the Film School Online website by NYU Film School's long time production supervisor, Lou LaVolpe. Length: approximately 32 pages.

From Reel to Deal: Everything You Need to Create a Successful Independent Film

From Reel to Deal: Everything You Need to Create a Successful Independent Film Review

From screenwriting & budgeting to marketing, Simens provides encyclopedic, precise, & creative instruction for putting your vision up on the screen.

Film, a Sound Art (Film and Culture Series)

Film, a Sound Art (Film and Culture Series) Review

French critic and composer Michel Chion argues that watching movies is more than just a visual exercise—it enacts a process of audio-viewing. The audiovisual makes use of a wealth of tropes, devices, techniques, and effects that convert multiple sensations into image and sound, therefore rendering, instead of reproducing, the world through cinema.

The first half of Film, A Sound Art considers developments in technology, aesthetic trends, and individual artistic style that recast the history of film as the evolution of a truly audiovisual language. The second half explores the intersection of auditory and visual realms. With restless inventiveness, Chion develops a rhetoric that describes the effects of audio-visual combinations, forcing us to rethink sound film. He claims, for example, that the silent era (which he terms "deaf cinema") did not end with the advent of sound technology but continues to function underneath and within later films. Expanding our appreciation of cinematic experiences ranging from Dolby multitrack in action films and the eerie tricycle of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining to the way actors from different nations use their voices and words, Film, A Sound Art showcases the vast knowledge and innovative thinking of a major theorist.

(10/1/2009)