Make Your Movie What You Need to Know About the Business and Politics of Filmmaking

First Steps (Before You Even Think of Shooting); Chapter 1 About You; Chapter 2 Who Are These People, and What Do They Do?; Chapter 3 It’s a Small World After All; Chapter 4 Relationships and Reputations; Chapter 5 Internship and Entry-Level Do’s and Don’ts; Chapter 6 This Is a Great Idea, But Is It a Movie?; Chapter 7 The Politics of Development; Chapter 8 Agents and Managers—What’s the Difference?; Chapter 9 The Money, Part 1; Production; Chapter 10 It’s a Collaborative Medium—Exactly What Does That Mean?; Chapter 11 Protecting Yourself and Your Movie; Chapter 12 What People Do, and Who They Do It With; Chapter 13 A Producer’s Life; Chapter 14 The Director, the First AD, and the UPM; Chapter 15 Decisions, Decisions; Chapter 16 Union or Non?; Chapter 17 May be We Should Go to Canada, or Someplace Else; Chapter 18 Who Is in Your Movie; Chapter 19 Prep; Chapter 20 Production; Chapter 21 A Day in the Life of a Production; It’s Just Beginning to Be a Movie Postproduction; Chapter 22 After the Smoke Clears; Chapter 23 Music; What Are You Doing Saturday Night?; Chapter 24 The Money, Part 2; Chapter 25 Will Anybody Ever See My Movie?; Chapter 26 Festivals; Chapter 27 The Glory; Chapter 28 Other Little (and Not So Little) Things That You Should Know; Chapter 29 Remember What Mom Taught You; Chapter 30 Now What?; Chapter 31 Out Takes;

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