Short film index

By Krishnakumar Menon

Nobody hate watching films. Being the best way of presenting ideas and emotions, short films still play a great role in visual communication. Just to showcase own mental thoughts via film, many must have thought of making any. Well, here is a book which will let you do it easily. Short film index is a book having short and easy instructions about making a better short film. Even a beginner can make better short films referring this book. Besides showing easy steps on making short films, it covers the entire process of short film making ranging from getting an idea to distributing the film in less words. Complete short film process in short is what we get having this book. It's all about short films.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Krishnakumar Menon
• Release date: Aug 5, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370516438

Krishnakumar Menon

AV Editor and Cinematographer,Graphic designer & Illustrator,as well as a Filmmaker.

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SHORT FILM INDEX

By Krishnakumar Menon

Copyright 2016 Krishnakumar Menon

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Table of Contents

This Book

Funding

Roles

Story

Screenplay

Storyboarding

Breakdown

Budgeting

Casting

Locations

Art

Costumes

Camera & Light

Sound

VFX

Scheduling

Shooting Preparation

Shooting

Editing

Delivery Specs

Rendering

Payroll

Distribution

About Me

This Book

Short films can be a great way to showcase your ideas and thoughts visually. This book will help you providing an easy step-by-step guide making a better and perfect short film. Having said that, this book doesn’t teach you feature film making process or its aspects. This book is a complete and easy guide for short film makers especially beginners. It's just about everything in short. Read on...

FUNDING

So, thinking of making a short film? Great. Although short films need less or no funds, it is always advised to think about how you are going to fund. Below are some steps for funding a short film.

Initial Funds

Well at this stage, you don't know how much it's gonna cost you making your short film. You need some funds to get everything started.

Finding The Source

Find a source for funds. Some of the most found sources for the fund are:

Friends and relatives: Check if you have any friend willing to invest in your short film.

Crowd funding: Crowd funding is in trend nowadays. Many of indie film makers are finding this useful. Crowd funding is a process where you collect your funds by accepting certain contributions from general consumers. It is a process of raising many small amounts of money from a large number of people. Today, crowd funding is typically made through internet.

Contingencies Fund

A part of funds collected should be kept aside as contingencies fund. It is a fund which will be used to pay when you meet some urgent or unforeseen expenditure or problems.

+Executive Producer

An executive producer is a person who makes an investment in your project. He/she is responsible for releasing funds when demanded by the team throughout the project.

After getting the funds ready, we move on to assigning roles.

ROLES

To begin, you have to assign roles providing certain rights and responsibilities. Below are the key roles and production department roles which need to be assigned here in this stage.

Key Roles

Producer: The producer is the person who you are going to let enjoy the ownership rights of your short film. He/she is responsible for controlling matters related to funds, hiring key members, contracting and making certain arrangements throughout the project. The producer is involved throughout the project.

Director: Director is the creative head for your short film. The director is responsible for managing every creative aspects of your film. In other words, he/she is responsible for the content of a film.

Screenwriter: A screenwriter or scriptwriter is the one who writes and formats a screenplay for a film.