By Kelly Schwarze – Filmmaker and Author of “What Film Schools Don’t Tell You”
How to make a movie and the art of the breakdown:
Ever wonder “how to make a movie?” Well, it’s not an easy thing to answer. Planning your first feature might feel like marching into battle. How do you not only protect yourself, and your crew but also win? You need a battle plan, better known as a script break down.
Possibly one of the most important aspects of how to make a movie starts with pre-production, a breakdown is a systematic and thorough evaluation of your script that allows you to budget, schedule and devise a strategy for completing your project. In order to get the most acquainted with your breakdown, we suggest skipping the program generated breakdown and creating your own from scratch with the following steps:
Time is the most valuable thing any organism has. While you should prepare to spend several weeks creating your scene breakdown, the hours of frustration, confusion and possible over time pay it will save you will be well worth it once your product is in sight.
If you would like to learn more about this stuff, be sure to check out my new book:
What Film Schools Don’t Tell You
Your Basic Guide to Making Movies and Finding Good Distribution.
That’s all for now. Make Movies!
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Kelly Schwarze is an Emmy © Award Recipient filmmaker who has written directed and produced 7 feature films, dozens of music vides and commercials, and has owned successful media companies in Las Vegas.
Kelly also does one-on-one consulting for filmmakers. Click here for more details.
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