Films

I wish to start making short low budget films as soon as I graduate.
I want to know what are some Essential books to buy?

I’d recommend you see Richard Linklater’s ‘Slacker’ and pick up one of the Guerilla Filmmaker’s handbooks. Try Youtube for practical advice.

Also, William Goldman’s ‘Adventures in the Screentrade’ is great at expounding the screenwriter’s craft. ‘The Conversations’ by Michael Ondaatje and Walter Murch is a fantastic book about film and sound editing. Both books are about and by established figures in the trade but aim high I say!

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1. Rbot Says:
   February 27th, 2010 at 10:43 am

   I’d recommend you see Richard Linklater’s ‘Slacker’ and pick up one of the Guerilla Filmmaker’s handbooks. Try Youtube for practical advice.

   Also, William Goldman’s ‘Adventures in the Screentrade’ is great at expounding the screenwriter’s craft. ‘The Conversations’ by Michael Ondaatje and Walter Murch is a fantastic book about film and sound editing. Both books are about and by established figures in the trade but aim high I say!
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