Filming on a Microbudget
320 pages
3rd Edition (pub 2008)
Paperback:
Amazon US ($12.95) - Amazon UK (£6.99)
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Summary:
For many years, I made short films. This book covers most of what I learned, especially regarding the practical issues of getting a film made. On the technical side, the book is already out of date (though it does cover HD formats, which were just becoming available in 2008) - but if you want an inexpensive guide to the organisational, logistical and artistic side of film production, this is the book for you.
Includes a case study of everything needed to make Blood Actually, a short film you can watch here.
Reviews on Amazon:
This book is not a how-to for budget film making but an overview in the process of film making in general. It's a back pocket sized reference for the practical indie side of film making and is written in clear language making for a decisively informative read.
***** D. Raphael (Amazon US)
A prequel of sorts to The Last Man on Earth Club.
Walks through all the stages of making a short film covering a really wide range of topics all the way from Development to Distribution. Explains all sorts of practical issues and has a really good glossary. Teaches you most of the stuff I learnt on a two-year course at College for the price of a CD.
***** Neil Lenthall (Amazon UK)
Science Fiction
The last survivors of a doomed world have been rescued and brought to safety in another universe, but they’re still dying out. All their rescuers can do is take them to see the ocean one last time – and try to persuade them to let their last child survive.
Short Story: Moment of Extinction
Science Fiction
The last survivors of a doomed world have been rescued and brought to safety in another universe, but they’re still dying out. All their rescuers can do is take them to see the ocean one last time – and try to persuade them to let their last child survive.
Work in Progress: The Inquisitor's Progress
Science Fiction
To be published in 2013
Summary:
Brunsol Mindspear, Lord Secretary for the Suppression of Heresy, only wishes to serve God. Because in his world, prayers do not go unanswered. Not only that, but they must be made correctly by all the millions of people across the land, or the world will suffer. Heresy must be wiped out with terror and torture, lest it provoke plague and famine.
But his world is stranger than it seems. When Brunsol dies and meets his maker, he finds world upon world above his own, each one created within the next. In trying to discover who built his reality, he will come at last to know the mind of God, and whose mind that really is…
Current Status:
(26th April 2013) Finally got it done! Well, except for seeing how some beta readers like it, then proofreading it to death (which will make my brain bleed, no doubt). But it's more-or-less formatted, has a cover, and actually makes sense! So the end-of-May, beginning-of-June timeline actually looks like it might happen!
Oh, and I found a better name for it as well. Which is also good.
(26th April 2013) Finally got it done! Well, except for seeing how some beta readers like it, then proofreading it to death (which will make my brain bleed, no doubt). But it's more-or-less formatted, has a cover, and actually makes sense! So the end-of-May, beginning-of-June timeline actually looks like it might happen!
Oh, and I found a better name for it as well. Which is also good.
