Description
When it comes to producing, no one speaks with more authority than Lloyd Kaufman, founder of the longest-running independent film studio, Troma Entertainment. He reveals the best ways to seek out investors, scout locations, hire crew and cast talent, navigate legalities, and stay within your budget. Featuring tips from some of the finest producers in the business (Mark Damon, James Gunn, Mark Harris, Tery Jones, Brad Kevoy, Stepehn Paul, and more!) , this book gives filmmakers practical tools for getting a movie shoot started, keeping it afloat and seeing it through to the end. Candid interviews, tips, tricks, and tidbits scattered throughout the book illustrate the many techniques you can employ to produce your own damn movie-Lloyd Kaufman shows you how it's really done.
This volume reveals the secrets of producing a low-budget independent film. Covering everything about production from the initial movie idea, all the way through pre-production and up to the first day of principal photography (including budgeting concerns to production-damaging acts of God), you'll get the inside track to producing your own damn movie.
Produce Your Own Damn Movie! will be your step-by-step guide on the journey to:
* Maximize production values with a minimal budget
* Scout locations
* Different producing models
* Develop business plans
* Pre-selling your movie
Hysterical in tone, filmmakers and producers won't be able to put this book down.
Produce Your Own Damn Movie! is the second volume in the Focal Press series Your Own Damn Film School. Check out the first volume in the series, Direct Your Own Damn Movie!
* Learn the secrets of producing, from finding investors (Mom & Dad, your local dentist) to location scouting (Can Tijuana pass for New York City?) and more!
* Essential low-budget producing information from the president of Troma Entertainment, the oldest truly independent film studio in history
* Loaded with examples and interviews from producers like James Gunn (Dawn of the Dead), Steven Paul (Ghost Rider), that reveal tricks of the trade
Reviews
Kaufman is a true original, a filmmaker who has used the freedom of low budgets and disreputable genres to express subversive political views and provide gobs of gore and gratuitous nudity. It is hard to think of another book that is simultaneously so honest and so inspiring; the fact that it is also smart, hilarious and informative makes Produce Your Own Damn Movie! a real treasure. - Jim Hemphill, American Cinematographer Magazine
"Founder of Troma Entertainment, the longest-running entertainment studio, Kaufman knows what he's talking about when it comes to producing your own indie movie. With candid interviews featuring some of the best producers working in the field, Kaufman shares funny, helpful tips on how to get your movie made." - Goldy Moldavsky, Independent Magazine
Contents
Introduction: Charlie Kaufman is My Doppelganger or Why I Want to Blow My Fucking Brains Out
Preamble to Chapter 1 Ask Lloyd: Penniless in Pittsburgh
Chapter 1: Producing Models and Car Models or Producing America's Next Top Tromodel
Preamble to Chapter 2 Ask Lloyd: Nervous in Naples
Chapter 2: How I Got a Rabbi To Hate Jews or How I Let Oliver Stone Beat the Crap Out of me to Hone his Producer Skills
Preamble to Chapter 3 Ask Lloyd: So Close in So. Cal
Chapter 3: Film School or Porno? Taint No Difference or My Dinner with Louis Su
Preamble to Chapter 4 Ask Lloyd: Losing It In Las Vegas
Chapter 4: Producing Movies Inevitably Gets You Stoned (and is Really, Really Hard) or A Union Dose of Some Shirley Jackson Optimism Goes a Long Way
Preamble to Chapter 5 Ask Lloyd: Eager in Erie
Chapter 5: Is There a Business Plan? Is IMDB Ass? or Secrets of Financing and Producing from the Pickled Brain of an Elaborate Non-Pyramid Schemer
Intermission: Andy Deemer Production Diaries
Preamble to Chapter 6 Ask Lloyd: Starstruck in Starbucks
Chapter 6: Pre-Sell Your Flick in a Game of Five Card Stud or Go For a Straight Flush
Preamble to Chapter 7 Ask Lloyd: Anxious in Anchorage
Chapter 7: Fuck Me Jesus on a Pogo Stick! - WHERE am I Going to Produce My Own Damn Movie? or The Secrets of The Location Vocation
Preamble to Chapter 8 Ask Lloyd: Pumped Up In Peoria
Chapter 8: How To Do It Hollywood Style or Lloyd Kaufman is the Herpes of the Film Industry. He Won't Go Away.
Preamble to Chapter 9 Ask Lloyd: Frustrated in Frankfurt
Chapter 9: Face the Music: Post-Production and Distribution, or Pump Up Your Production to a Higher Level
Preamble to Afterword Ask Lloyd: Frugal in Fargo
TromAfterword
A Trio of E-mail Exchanges Among Ashley, Elinor and Lloyd, and A Final Final Ending to This Book About Producing
Index