Q&A: Recommend a good book that describes the film making process?
Question by tsc_qanda: Recommend a good book that describes the film making process?
I’m interested in finding out how about how movies get made today. In particular, I’m interested in reading case studies which illustrate a successful or unsuccessful collaboration between the movie business and the creative art of film making.
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Answer by Darrius
One book is: How to Make Great Short Feature Films: The Making of Ghosthunter
Although it focuses on short films and not commercial ones, at least there’s your case study: The Ghosthunter short film. Though I’m not sure how much it touches on the movie business.
A book that seems to have gotten great reviews is “On Film-making : An Introduction to the Craft of the Director” by Martin Scorsese.
It obviously focuses on the director perspective though.
“The Big Lebowski: The Making of a Coen Brothers Film (Paperback)” by William Preston Robertson contains a case study, which I think touches more on the collaboration between studio and the cohen’s brothers vision.
Maybe that is what you’re looking for. Check them out on www.amazon.com.
A search on “film-making” presents other alternatives as well.
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