Resources
Sample Budgets
Kick-start your movie planning with these sample budgets from our book, “Film and Video Budgets”
- Budget for a $5 million Movie
- Budget for a Digital Feature
- Budget for a Digitial No-budget Feature
- Budget for a Documentary filmed on tape
- Industrial Budget
- Budget for a Music Video
- Budget for a Student Film
Course Outlines
Many of our authors teach at film schools around the world. Here are some course outlines that they have graciously provided. Feel free to use them them in designing your classes.
- Production Planning-Budgeting
- Contemporary American Film
- Introduction to Screenwriting
- Inner Drives: How to Create and Write Characters
- Stealing Fire From the Gods: A Dynamic New Story Model For Writers and Filmmakers
- Cut by Cut Editing
- Setting Up Your Scenes: The Inner Workings of Great Films
- Psychology for Screenwriters
- Sound Design
- Writing for Prime Time Dramatic TV
- Is Cinema Studies the New M. B. A.?
- Storyboarding
- Syllabus-Film and Video Budgets
Production Management Report Forms
You will find these professional forms very valuable when in production. They are best used in conjunction with our book “Film Production Management 101”
Our Authors’ Websites
John Gaspard – Digital Filmmaking 101
Judith Weston – Directing Actors
Christopher Vogler – The Writer’s Journey
Blake Snyder – Save the Cat
John Badham – I’ll Be in My Trailer
Paul Chitlik – Rewrite
Sheldon Bull – Elephant Bucks
Kathie Fong Yoneda – The Script-Selling Game
Mark Travis – Directing Features
Scott Billups- Digital Moviemaking
Michael Hauge – Selling Your Story
Pamela Jaye Smith – The Power of the Dark Side
Joe Leydon – Movies You Must See
William M. Akers – Your Screenplay Sucks
Claudia Johnson, Matt Stevens – Script Partners
Fran Harris – Crashing Hollywood
Michael Tobias – The Search for Reality
Chris Gore – The Complete DVD Book
James Fraioli – Storyboarding 101:
Steve Carlson – Hitting Your Mark
Michael Slone – Sppecial Effects
Brad Schreiber – What Are You Laughing At?
Marisa D’vari’s Amazon Blog
Charles Wilkinson – The Working Director
Derek Rydall – I Could’ve Written a Better Movie Than That!
Howard Suber – The Power of Film
Jennifer Van Bergen – Archetypes for Writers
Carole Lee Dean – The Art of Film Funding
Catherine Ann Jones – The Way of Story
Dorothy Fadiman – Producing with Passion
Pamela Douglas – Writing the TV Drama Series
Troy Laniers – Filmmaking for Teens
Jennifer Van Bergen – Archetypes Blog
Deborah Patz – Production Management 101
David Worth – The Citizen Kane Crash Course In Cinematography