Zusatztext "It's funny! it's profane! and you may learn a thing or two." - Internet Video Magazine Informationen zum Autor Lloyd Kaufman is one of the very few genuine auteur filmmakers. He has written, produced, and/or directed more than 25 films, including "The Toxic Avenger", "Terror Firmer", "Tromeo and Juliet", and "Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead". Kaufman is president of the world-famous Troma Entertainment, the oldest and, arguably, the longest-running truly independent film studio in history. He is also the president of the IFTA (Independent Film & Television Alliance), whose members produce more than 400 independent films and countless hours of television programming each year and generate more than $4 billion in distribution revenues annually. Klappentext Following Lloyd Kaufman's successful "Make Your Own Damn Movie: Secrets of a Renegade Director" (2003, St. Martin's), this collection of how-to books will effectively be an entertaining, enlightening film school for anybody with the passion and cheekiness to just go out and do it. Direct Your Own Damn Movie! covers the basics of how to direct a movie. From designing the set to working with actors, this book gives the anecdotal insight any aspiring filmmaker needs without once losing sight of the humor behind "making it" in this cut-throat industry. Zusammenfassung Legendary director Lloyd Kaufman, creator of The Toxic Avenger, reveals 40 years worth of maverick cinematic know-how! Inhaltsverzeichnis PREFACE- DIRECTILE DISFUNCTION FOREWORD (maybe BACKWARD) by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor ("Crank") CHAPTER 1 - JOINING THE ARMY OF ONE CHAPTER 2 - IT'S THE SHIT! ... ER, SCRIPT! CHAPTER 3 - SHOW, DON'T TELL, AND OTHER THINGS MY UNCLE LANCE WHISPERED TO ME IN THE BASEMENT CHAPTER 4- PREPRODUCTION: MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO (AND BY IDAHO, I, OF COURSE, MEAN HELL) CHAPTER 5-CASTING: STICK TO FISH, AVOID THE TOILET SEATS CHAPTER 6-PREPARATION AND SCHEDULING: WHO KNEW THERE WAS SO MUCH PAPER INVOLVED IN THE ART OF DIRECTING? CHAPTER 7 - MANAGING THE SET, OR MASTERING THE AGE-OLD ART OF BABYSITTING. CHAPTER 8 - PUTTING THE "SPECIAL" IN SPECIAL EFFECTS, OR WHY WE SPEND 80% OF OUR BUDGET ON BROMO-SELTZER CHAPTER 9 - POST PRODUCTION, OR TAKING A CUE FROM DEDICATED HOOKERS AND FINISHING YOUR MOVIE OFF RIGHT CHAPTER 10 - IF YOU WANT IT DONE RIGHT, YOU'VE GOT TO DO IT YOURSELF, OR PAY SOMEONE A LOT OF MONEY CHAPTER 11 - A CHAPTER JUST ABOUT DIRECTING AFTERWORD - MY HAPPY ENDING ...

"It's funny, it's profane, and you may learn a thing or two." - Internet Video Magazine

Autorentext

Lloyd Kaufman is one of the very few genuine auteur filmmakers. He has written, produced, and/or directed more than 25 films, including "The Toxic Avenger", "Terror Firmer", "Tromeo and Juliet", and "Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead". Kaufman is president of the world-famous Troma Entertainment, the oldest and, arguably, the longest-running truly independent film studio in history. He is also the president of the IFTA (Independent Film & Television Alliance), whose members produce more than 400 independent films and countless hours of television programming each year and generate more than $4 billion in distribution revenues annually.

Klappentext

Following Lloyd Kaufman's successful "Make Your Own Damn Movie: Secrets of a Renegade Director" (2003, St. Martin's), this collection of how-to books will effectively be an entertaining, enlightening film school for anybody with the passion and cheekiness to just go out and do it. Direct Your Own Damn Movie! covers the basics of how to direct a movie. From designing the set to working with actors, this book gives the anecdotal insight any aspiring filmmaker needs without once losing sight of the humor behind "making it" in this cut-throat industry.

Inhalt

PREFACE- DIRECTILE DISFUNCTION

FOREWORD (maybe BACKWARD) by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor ("Crank")

CHAPTER 1 - JOINING THE ARMY OF ONE

CHAPTER 2 - IT'S THE SHIT! ... ER, SCRIPT!

CHAPTER 3 - SHOW, DON'T TELL, AND OTHER THINGS MY UNCLE LANCE WHISPERED TO ME IN THE BASEMENT

CHAPTER 4- PREPRODUCTION: MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO (AND BY IDAHO, I, OF COURSE, MEAN HELL)

CHAPTER 5-CASTING: STICK TO FISH, AVOID THE TOILET SEATS

CHAPTER 6-PREPARATION AND SCHEDULING: WHO KNEW THERE WAS SO MUCH PAPER INVOLVED IN THE ART OF DIRECTING?

CHAPTER 7 - MANAGING THE SET, OR MASTERING THE AGE-OLD ART OF BABYSITTING.

CHAPTER 8 - PUTTING THE "SPECIAL" IN SPECIAL EFFECTS, OR WHY WE SPEND 80% OF OUR BUDGET ON BROMO-SELTZER

CHAPTER 9 - POST PRODUCTION, OR TAKING A CUE FROM DEDICATED HOOKERS AND FINISHING YOUR MOVIE OFF RIGHT