Guide to Filmmaking Author:Edward Pincus This book is addressed both to filmmakers and to people who want to be filmmakers. By "filmmakers" we mean people who use motion picture film to achieve some conceptual whole. This can range from a well-done home movie to a full-length feature film. Films make for recording purposes, simple home movies, or data recording (as in missile photogr... more »aphy) will not be discussed. Nor will we discuss full crew, Hollywood-style feature film shooting.
The book is intended to give a fairly precise idea of how much it costs to do various types of films and the way to go about making these films. It is a production manual, including all the information the serious filmmaker will need about the technical side of making movies.« less