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Written by Raindance founder Elliot Grove, the
Raindance Producers' Lab: Lo-to-No Budget Filmmaking, Second Edition is an independent filmmaker's guide to producing movies on a micro budget. The first half of the book begins with the basics of video production that a producer needs to know, and the second half progresses to show the various elements of marketing, selling, and distributing your films. Elliot Grove's clear-cut, no-nonsense approach to micro-budget filmmaking and producing combined with winning formulas for marketing and promotion make this book a one-stop shop for filmmakers.
List of contents
Nobody Knows Anything; The Hollywood Zoo; Budgets; Originating Formats; Labs; The Camera; Sound; Cinematography; Production Values; Locations & Permits; Office & Paperwork; Shoot; Post-production; Above the Line; Moving the Budget Up; Preparing the Marketing Plan; Publicity; Film Festivals; Film Markets; Distribution; Best Laid Plans; Ten Tricks and Traps of Producing; Development Financing; Production Financing
About the author
Elliot Grove currently teaches professional screenwriting and filmmaking courses internationally, and in 2009 Open University awarded him an Honorary Doctorate for his contribution to education. In May 2013, not long after launching Raindance Raw Talent—a production company devoted to producing movies that follow the Raindance producing principals—Elliot wrapped his first movie: Love.Honour.Obey.
