Making Short Films: The Complete Guide from Script to Screen - Softcover

Clifford Thurlow

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0868408417 ISBN 13: 9780868408415

Publisher: University of New South Wales Press (UNSW Press), 2005

Synopsis

"Making Short Films: The Complete Guide from Script to Screen is a practical and inspirational guide to students and independent film-makers. This is the only book to describe and explain the whole process - from creating an original or adapted script, through producing and directing, to finance and distribution." Whether you are embarking on a short-film project by yourself or are planning a more ambitious, collaborative project, Making Short Films gives you the low-down on everything you need to know.

About this title

About the Author

Clifford Thurlow is a writer and independent filmmaker. He co-produced Salvador Dali: A Biography and co-produced and presented The Dali Triangle for Yellowbay Films. The winner of a screenwriting award from EMDA, the European Media Development Award, his screenplay Zeitgeist is in development with Hub Media.

Max Thurlow is a journalist who has written for a number of publications including the Daily Mail and the Independent. He has shot, edited and screened a number of travel and short films.

Review

Nobody should think about making a short film without reading this first. Thurlow takes new filmmakers through the steps of shooting film in a way that will save time and money. Plus it's a good read! -- Producer Jennifer Fate Velaise, Fate Productions, Los Angeles It offers an opportunity for the rank outsider to learn how to present a film project in a manner that would convince the professionals. Thurlow brings his personable style to Making Short Films and turns what is effectively a step by step text book into an easily assimilated, fact packed tutorial with all the dynamism and panache of a contemporary novel. All in all an essential tool of the trade and indispensable for the embryonic auteur. -- Mike von Joel, State of Art This is the only book to describe and explain the whole process - from creating an original or adapted script, through producing and directing to finance and distribution. -- British Film Magazine Making Short Films will be your ideal guide and will take you right through the process. -- Writing Magazine A riveting read, packed with rare anecdotes and expertly chosen examples from across the film world. And by weaving throughout tales from the likes of Cocteau, Bunuel or Fellini, Clifford Thurlow provides a refreshing and much needed focus on the artistic and creative - as well as the technical - aspects of filmmaking. -- Nic Wistreich, development director of Shooting People and co-author of Get Your Film Funded Clifford Thurlow's book is the definitive must have for any filmmaker contemplating making and marketing a short. -- Elliot Grove, Director of Raindance Heady stuff. Enough to make you feel like the next Spielberg. But why not? Someone has to be. And my guess is it will be someone who starts off reading Making Short Films. -- Terence Doyle, New Nude Mag The first edition was an unexpected bestseller and this expanded reprint is even better ... First class -- STATE

Edition details

• Publisher: University of New South Wales Press (UNSW Press)
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0868408417
• ISBN 13: 9780868408415
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 278