How To Make Your Movie: An Interactive Film School [CD-ROM]

Rajko Grlic (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 7, 1998

The package includes 4 CD-ROMs which start with the fundamentals, then introduce each part of an actual film production (you'll see the finished film as well as the early rough edits).

Watch the film develop from concept and research through production and the final cut. Included on the discs is raw digital footage from this project, so you can practice editing with your own software.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"I learned as much with this CD-ROM as I learned in my first year of graduate film school." -- Paul A. - Film School Grad

"The best, most complete and innovative filmmaking guide I have ever seen, in any format." -- Walter Murch - 3-time Oscar Winner

"This is the most intelligently realized, most informative multimedia production I have ever experienced." -- Hal Barwood - LucasArts Entertainment

The best, most complete and innovative guide I have ever seen, in any format. I would highly recommend it for students and professionals alike.(Walter Murch, Oscar-Winning Editor and Sound Designer -Apocalypse Now, The English Patient)

If you're a movie maverick with a mind of your own, check out How to Make Your Movie: An Interactive Film School. It's a three-CD-ROM set of indie filmmaking know-how that shows you just about everything you need to know to create a reel impact.(WIRED)

This CD-ROM is a brilliant way to learn filmmaking because it allows you to practice without spending a fortune.(Robert Nickson, Professor of Film, NYU)

It is the most 'human' CD-ROM I' ve ever seen. -- Publisher Comments

About the Author

Rajko Grlic, Writer and Director, was born in Zagreb, Croatia. He graduated from the FAMU Film School in Prague, Czech Republic. He has directed and co-written seven feature films including: Charuga, That Summer of White Roses, Three for Happiness, In the Jaws of Life, You Love Only Once, Bravo Maestro, and If It Kills Me.

His films have been distributed all around the world and shown in competition at many major film festivals including the Cannes Film Festival. He has received more than fifty international awards including "Grand Prix" for Best Film and the prize for Best Director at the Tokyo International Festival.

Grlic has also written nine feature screenplays and two television serials, and has received numerous writing awards including the UNESCO Award and the Peter Kastner Award.

He has produced two feature films and five short films. He has also directed three television documentaries, serials, and a dozen short films. Four of his films are available on home video and laserdisc in the U.S.

Product Details

• CD-ROM
• Publisher: Electronic Vision; 1 edition (December 7, 1998)
• ISBN-10: 0966465105
• ISBN-13: 978-0966465105
• Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,515,559 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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23 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Exaggerated price for a medicore presentation, May 24, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: How To Make Your Movie: An Interactive Film School (CD-ROM)

After great anticipation, I am very disappointed with this package. First of all it was all over too fast, in less than a week I had received that diploma. The amount of information is absolute minimum and sometimes even trivial. You will find that the makers of the course acknowledge this problem by recommending dozens and dozens of books for you to read. The only use they made of computer technology is by showing how the light meter works. Other than that, it's reading, maybe watching a couple of videos here and there, but that's it. Now comes the technical problem, let's say that you finished the courses on the first floor and you are mainly working on the second one, everytime you launch the program you will have to always access the second floor (CD2) from CD1. The third CD has no use if you don't have an editing program. It contains material which you can cut to make a film, but you can't unless you have the program. In the end, it's a relatively good program, but only worth of 20 Dollars, and not the extremely exaggerated 90.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ideal for writers, editors, filmmakers and movie-goers, February 4, 2004

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Elizabeth Williams (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How To Make Your Movie: An Interactive Film School (CD-ROM)

How to Make Your Own Movie is by far one of the best purchases I've made. As an aspiring screenwriter and avid movie-goer, this program taught me more about filmmaking than the last 3 books I've read, combined. I recommend it to everyone who is interested in any aspect of filmmaking.

The How to Make Your Movie contains all of the elements of a real film school, complete with guide. You actually get to create a short film complete with sound mixing and editing.

It is easy to use, entertaining and very interactive. It covers the important stuff - locations, script breakdowns, terminology of storyboards, lighting, camera equipment, scheduling, and budgeting.

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best money I ever spent!, October 25, 2000

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Brad Flickinger (Port Townsend, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How To Make Your Movie: An Interactive Film School (CD-ROM)

I really enjoyed this CD collection and felt it was worth every penny. I am a wannabe movie maker that wanted to learn all about it without the time or expense of going to school. The interactivity of the CD allowed me to learn lighting (by turning off and on different lights) how to cut, how to get shots, everthing, and does it by showing little video clips. It is very well done.