Title: The beginning filmmaker's business guide
First published: 1994
Description: This book provides an orientation in four key areas essential to the business of making films: financial, legal, marketing, and distribution. With Renee Harmon by your side, you will learn how to prepare a professional prospectus for your film, the importance of "high concept" and "hook," how to develop a theatrical release plan, and what should go into an electronic press kit.

Here are facts you need to know about letters of intent, presales, completion bonds, sell-through, theatrical windows, cost-profit scenarios, pick-up deals, and saturation - plus many other issues you need to understand to succeed in the film industry. Whether you want to market a single video or launch an entire film company, this is the book to read first.
Subjects: Motion pictures, Marketing, Video recordings, Finance, Motion picture industry, Distribution, Law and legislation, Motion pictures, distribution, Video recordings, production and direction, vocational guidance, Motion pictures, law and legislation
LC classification: PN1995.9.M29 H37 1994