How NOT To Make A Film

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    1. How NOT to make your first movie Confessions of a former virgin filmmaker who learned to get screwed and now enjoys it. SUDHISH KAMATH
    2. Show me the money
      • Dave: But movies cost millions of dollars to make.
      • Robert K. Bowfinger: That's after gross net deduction profit percentage deferment ten percent of the nut. Cash, every movie cost $2,184.
    3. What NOT to say?
      • Ok, you want to make a movie.
      • Why? What do you want to say? Do people want to know? Art? Entertainment? Poster? Painting? Scrapbook? Expression? Communication? Indigestion?
    4. Art & Entertainment
      • Between wanking around and being a gigolo, what do you rather do?
      • Does doing it for yourself give you more pleasure or making someone else happy give you pleasure?
      • What is honesty?
    5. Indie filmmaking?
      • Dil pe Mat le yaar,
      • Haath me le!
      • Just do it.
    6. Part 1: How NOT to write
      • Write without thinking (Exercise)
      • Is everyone creative? Are there are any new stories left to tell?
      • Make it up as you go.
    7. Stages of development
      • Concept Note
      • Synopsis
      • Scene Breakdown
      • First Draft
      • Rewrites
      • Final Draft
    8. Character/Characteristics
      • Who? What? Where? When?
      • Why?How?
      • Details… Digesis…
      • Backstories…
    9. Anatomy of a scene
      • Scene or story, it’s all about beginning, middle and end. Set-up, Confrontation, Resolution
      • Every scene should tell a story and many stories should tell a larger story. If any of these stories is not needed to tell the larger story, why should be part of the script?
      • What determines length? What’s a plot point?
      • Character arc, Hero’s journey
    10. Text, Subtext, Context
      • What you want to say?
      • What do you want to NOT say but hint
      • What gives what you are saying more perspective
      • Plot/ subplot/ metaphor
      • How NOT to title your film/tagline
    11. Structure
      • Should story be told from A to Z?
      • What are the other ways to tell a story and when do you use alternative structure?
      • Examples: Pulp Fiction, Groundhog Day, Run Lola Run, Let’s talk… Lost
    12. Tools to help you write
      • Celtx/ Sophocles/ Final Draft
      • MS Word
      • Notebook/ Tissue paper/ Toilet paper/ Bus ticket - Index Cards
    13. When is your script ready?
      • Are you convinced completely, entirely after the honeymoon period?
      • Have you read it and not got bored even after the 50th time?
      • What about your friends?
      • How many rewrites are necessary?
    14. Part 2: How NOT to prepare
      • Who do you cast? How do you cast?
      • How do you know what is needed to shoot? How much it is going to cost?
      • Script Breakdowns - Production Manager/ First Assistant Director - Two hands of a filmmaker
    15.  
    16. Picking the team
      • The road trip
      • The recce
      • Will there be sex on the sets?
    17. Budgeting
      • People
      • Places
      • Properties
      • Costumes
      • Converting Breakdown Sheets into Money or Resources
    18. What Dicky Fox told Jerry McGuire
      • “ The key to the job is personal relationships.”
    19. Particulars Amount
      • Actor Solid role
      • Actress Mileage
      • Villain RapeScene
      • Clown Girlfriend
      • Location Friend’s Place
      • Film/Camera/Fuel Beg
      • Vehicle Borrow
      • Location/Permissions/Music Steal
      • Costumes BYOClothes
      • Food Mere Paas Ma
    20. Scheduling Tools
      • Excel Sheet
      • Sticky notes & a Chart / Index Cards
      • How NOT to schedule
      • D/N, Location availability, actor availability
      • How much can you shoot?
    21. Contracts
      • You know WHO, WHAT, WHEN, HOW… now get them to commit.
      • A signature can save your soul… Or ass.
      • Internet or Rick Schmidt’s book
    22. Rehearsals
      • Test shoots
      • Dress rehearsals
      • Stand-ins
      • Substitutes
      • Improvisation/Rewrites
      • Final changes/lock script/production
    23. Creating your own set-up
      • Build lights with tubelights
      • Wheelchair as trolley
      • Rope and suspension
      • Build your own steadycam
      • BUT remember, prepare to travel light!
    24. Why NOT to film
      • VHS tape - 230-250 lines (333x480 px)
      • DVD Quality - 480 lines
      • Mini DV Single CCD handycam - 450 lines
      • Mini DV 3 CCD - 720 lines
      • High Definition - 1080i/p Resolution
      • Film - 2K Resolution
      • Scarlet - 3K Resolution
      • Red - 4K Resolution
      • IMAX - 8-10K
    25. Part 3: How NOT to shoot
      • Lights, Camera, Action
      • AD duties: Logging takes, Coordinating with dept heads for present and next scene, Crowd control
      • The madness of trying to capture live sound
    26. Dealing with your team
      • Good cop, bad cop - ADs
      • Finding method in the madness
      • Working with the chaos
      • ALWAYS keep a cool head
      • Morale of the team
      • Brownie points - always end the day with a carrot no matter how much stick you’ve given
    27. Actors
      • Who’s your Daddy? Equation is everything
      • Fragile egos
      • It’s all about the mood.
      • Don’t let them go till you get what you want
      • Difference between team work and anarchy
      • On camera rehearsals, out-takes, alternative scenes, cutaways, mood shots, montages
    28. Food for thought
      • Eat/Feed three to four times a day
      • Red Bulls/ Water/ Glucose
      • First aid kit
      • Fruits on set
      • Importance of tea-breaks
    29. Plan B
      • Murphy’s law
      • What do you do if you lose your lead?
      • Films are not made at the set, they are made at the editing table.
      • You can tell the same story using different characters, tools (voiceover, animation sequence, comicbook) or sometimes even using text.
    30. Making of the film/ Production Stills
      • Keep a photographer on stand by
      • Continuity and Publicity
      • Shoot as much video as possible - making of the film, stock footage
    31. Part 4: How NOT to cut a film
      • Letting go
      • The art of patience
      • The editor-director conflict
      • The director-writer conflict
      • Film is a product of what is shot, not what is written
      • Making sense out of rushes - how to salvage what’s not available
    32. Part 5: How NOT to complete a film
      • Remember a film remains incomplete if you miss out any of these processes:
      • Adding Foley sound, ADR (even if you have done live sound)
      • Background score
      • Sound mixing - 5.1 Dolby or DTS mix
      • Titling/ credits/ acknowledgements/disclaimers
    33. Background Score
      • Copyright free music
      • Garage Band
      • Rock/Pop bands albums
      • 20 second rule - but you cannot sell this music
    34. Censorship
      • Registration of title - Earlier the better
      • Publicity Clearance - all posters and publicity need to be cleared by the producers council or the local governing body
      • Shooting Script
      • Censorship fees
      • Screening and food
    35. Part 6: How NOT to distribute your film
      • Do it yourself?
      • Word of mouth?
      • Media?
      • Festivals?
      • Theatrical Release?
      • Alternative Channels?
      • Satellite and Video rights?
    36. Rate your own film
      • Get everyone who watches it to rate it as honestly as possible
      • Take into account all reviews - your own, internal, external, neutral, biased and arrive at an average. Be open to criticism from people who matter
      • Below 4: Move on, don’t even try to promote it
      • 4-6: Give it free, distribute on channels where the audience does not have to pay
      • 6-8: Never give up, keep pushing the film shamelessly
    37. Being an indie filmmaker
      • Be active on IMDB
      • Make sure your films and you have a website with your work/portfolio
      • Compile all reviews and keep a record
      • Keep working on scripts, it’s all just a matter of time before you start again
      • No true fiasco ever began as a quest for mere adequacy.
      • A motto of the British Special Air Force is: “Those who risk, win.”
      • A single green vine shoot is able to grow through cement.
      • The Pacific Northwestern Salmon beats itself bloody on its quest to travel hundreds of miles upstream against the current, with a single purpose, sex of course, but also… life.
      • - Drew Baylor (Elizabethtown)
      • “ I know what I have to do now. I have to keep breathing. Tomorrow, the sun will rise, who knows what the tide would bring?”
      • - Chuck Noland (Castaway)
      • The End
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