Making it Big in Shorts: The Ultimate Filmmaker’s Guide to Short Films – 2nd edition
Making it Big in Shorts: The Ultimate Filmmaker’s Guide to Short Films – 2nd edition
- ISBN13: 9781932907582
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
First published in 2004, this new and updated edition allows filmmakers to tap into the raw power of the YouTube, MySpace, and iTunes. Generate millions of hits for your short films and learn how you can make money by tapping into the power of the Internet.
Grab a camera, make a short film. Show it at Sundance; show it on YouTube. There’s no limit to what you can achieve by starting small and dreaming big. In easy-to-follow steps, short-film guru Kim Adelman shows you how to achieve your dreams by making that killer short film. Bringing together the artist and business sides of filmmaking, this book gives filmmakers the skills to develop unique shorts that are creatively satisfying and can launch careers.
Making it Big in Shorts: The Ultimate Filmmaker’s Guide to Short Films – 2nd edition
I’ve been thinking about making a short film for ages, and was lucky enough to get my hands on an advance copy of this book. After reading it, I feel inspired to actually make it happen. There’s a great mix of encouragement and practical advice here that helped organize my thoughts regarding the steps I need to take to make my short. The anecdotes from veteran short filmmakers, including Kim herself, were especially helpful. I appreciated that no set-in-stone rules were set down, but the worst mistakes to be avoided are still spelled out.
I’d say it’s a must-read for anyone who’s going to make a short and hasn’t had much experience with production. But it could also be helpful to more seasoned filmmakers who want insight into aspects of the process they haven’t given much thought to, especially marketing and online distribution.
Rating: 5 / 5
Making it Big in Shorts: The Ultimate Filmmaker’s Guide to Short Films – 2nd edition
The Ultimate Filmmakers Guide to Short Films: Making It Big In Shorts should be read by every aspiring filmmaker. Kim Adelman lays out everything you need to know in an informative, witty, and intelligent way. She tells you about the mistakes that others (including herself!) have made, so that you don’t make the same mistakes.
And as someone who has worked at a number of film festivals over the years, I found her insights into dealing with festivals, and planning a promotional, marketing and festival strategy for your film to be spot-on. I’ll be recommending this book to every filmmaker (and filmmaker wannabe!) I know.
Rating: 5 / 5
Making it Big in Shorts: The Ultimate Filmmaker’s Guide to Short Films – 2nd edition
“Making it Big in Shorts” is a great book for all short filmmakers. It emphasizes that each filmmaker is their own studio and is the one sets the agenda for the kind of film they want to make. Whatever the goal of your short…youtube sensation, the festival circuit, money or a showcase piece for a feature film, this book has helpful tools for you. Kim Adelman has her finger on the pulse of the short film world because she has been in the trenches for years and has produced amazing results. The tips that Adelman offers are presented in a clear and practical way which makes for an easy and helpful read.
Between the insight of her own experiences and those of other film professionals, this book will help you from your original concept through your career. It is a short filmmaking journey that tells of the simple truths and harsh realities. This book can also get your creative juices flowing. I came up with a handful of short concepts as I read through Adelman’s guide.
As a film professional, I highly recommend this book to all filmmakers interested in tackling the short film medium, especially those just starting out.
Rating: 5 / 5
Making it Big in Shorts: The Ultimate Filmmaker’s Guide to Short Films – 2nd edition
I found this book to be of limited value. There is some good techinical information on dealing with SAG and other industry stuff but I found it wildly lacking in other areas. Kim Adelman is a Producer of short films as far as I know she hasn’t actually got behind the camera. So the book wasn’t very good with the whole being creative part nor paticularly inspiring. She makes everything seem real expensive and a 26 man crew to make a short! Robert Rodriguez would be turning over in his grave if he were dead. I think aspiring film makers are better off reading a “Rebel without a Crew” first make few films ,learn by doing, then add this book so they can understand how a producer thinks.
Rating: 2 / 5
Making it Big in Shorts: The Ultimate Filmmaker’s Guide to Short Films – 2nd edition
As former director of acquisitions for SHORT Cinema Journal and other pioneering DVD magazines publishing short films in the late 1990s, I highly recommend Making it Big in Shorts: The Ultimate Filmmaker’s Guide to Short Films – 2nd edition to anyone interested in delving into the strange subset that is short filmmaking today. An excellent overview written with a highly energetic tone, it does not take itself or its subject too seriously. Still, the information presented is professional and realistic, while being wholly supportive of the reader’s desire to make it big with shorts. Kim’s experience as a seasoned producer of shorts, as well as a journalist and educator, makes her advice well worth listening to. Granted, if you’re seeking something philosophical about the nature of cinema, or its aesthetics, find something else. This book’s strength is its practicality. That and persistence of vision is ultimately what you really need to get any films made. Leaving the vision part up to the reader, Kim gets down to brass tacks in terms of what you NEED to know to go from wanting to make a short to parlaying it into a success. This should be a text book for all film students and anyone who wants to be one. *****
Rating: 4 / 5
Making it Big in Shorts: The Ultimate Filmmaker’s Guide to Short Films – 2nd edition