Script Development Advice for Producers

"Script Mechanics: Understanding and Fixing the Script" in Tom Jeffrey ed Film Business

If you want to be a successful film producer, you'll keep Film Business close at hand: one copy on your desk and one copy on your bedside table. The Producer makes films happen. With all the skill of the best circus juggler the producer moves a film project forward from idea to release,as quickly as possible, on time and on budget. The producer has clear goals and oversees the creative process with efficiency, passion and unflagging enthusiasm. Film Business explains all you need to know to become a successful producer. The book covers building a business plan, selecting and analysing scripts, and creating strategies for deal-making, as well as the production and marketing of projects in a range of genres and markets from traditional cinema to digital interactive media and multi platforms. With amusing anecdotes and invaluable advice from industry experts, this handbook provides you with the tools you need to run a sustainable business in both the local and international screen production environments. Every aspiring film-maker needs Film Business. More than just a reference book, it provides ideas and insights about what to do at each stage.

Linda Aronson's article 'Script Mechanics, Understanding and Fixing the Script' provides detailed practical down to earth screenplay creative development advice for film producers, including advice on adapation, stress and crisis, rewriting, working productively with writers and best practice in script development.

Foreword Acknowledgments1. Excuse me, but what is a producer? (Damien Parer)2. Film categories - genres (Damien Parer)3. Animation (Sandra Gross) 4. Commercials (Peter Cudlipp)5. Corporate (Tom Jeffrey)6. Documentaries (Damien Parer)7. Converge or die - surviving the digital media maze (Ben Cardillo, Libby Jeffery and Ian Allen)8. Open all hours - running a professional business (Damien Parer)9. Planning for success - the business plan (Damien Parer)10. Copyright and other rights (Ian Collie and Julia Leigh)11. The legal ladder (Lyndon Sayer-Jones)12. Interactive digital media legal matters (Tom Jeffrey)13. Development heaven - from an idea to a proposal (Damien Parer)14. Script mechanics (Linda Aronson) 15. The written pitch (Ginny Lowndes)16. Find me the money - financing your film (Damien Parer)17. Show me the money - maximising the revenue (Damien Parer)18. Using a sales agent (Hal McElroy)19. Bagging the big bickies - the se

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

ISBN:1741146461