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On The Set: The Hidden Rules of Movie Making Etiquette

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Movie Sets 101: The Definitive Survivor's Guide by professional special effects and makeup filmmaker Paul J. Salamoff is the complete and deftly written 240-page guide covering every important detail of the movie making business. Readers will be educated with seasoned and experienced advise drawn from over 70 working professionals, including Wes Craven, Ron Underwood, Tom DeSanto, James Gunn, Daniel Roebuck, Owen Roizman, Andrea Weaver, Kenny Myers, John Medlen and many others. Movie Sets 101 is highly recommended to all readers, whether they be aspiring movie makers, experienced professionals in the film business, or the ordinary movie enthusiast viewing the finished product. Movie Sets 101 it can really teach its readers every perspective of the movie making business and should be a part of any personal, professional, and academic library Film Studies reference collection.

This is an excellent, insightful book covering the all the dos and don'ts anyone who works on a set should know and know well. It's written in an entertaining fashion and holds your interest to the end. I recommend it to everyone I meet who wants to work in production.

This is an absolutely brilliant book, filled cover to cover with practical and insightful knowledge about working on a film set. This is stuff that you SHOULD -- but don't -- learn in film school. The interviews are awesome, and the writer seems like a very cool, down to earth guy with one hell of a resumé. Don't hesitate -- BUY THIS BOOK!!!!!!

This book had a great deal of interesting information. The quotes and long sections from industry professionals were very helpful. These people spoke from experience and talked about things that can never be learned in a classroom about the film set. The grammar, punctuation, and word choices used in this book were at time pretty sloppy and not very professional from a writing frame of reference. Fortunately, the subject matter and experiences of working film professionals, covering all the different positions on a film crew, were revealing. Following these many bits of advice would make working on a film crew more successful with fewer "beginner's" mistakes.

A pragmatic guide to appropriate film set behavior with a complete and concise reference section. Simply put, it's a great tool for anybody starting out in the film production business, required reading.

An outstanding and unique guide to what the numerous players in producing a movie do and should not do with illustrations and antidotes from well known professionals in the field. Fascinating to the film lover, the curious and necessary for those plying the trade.

Why spend thousands of dollars on film school when you can learn everything you need to know for $17.95 on MOVIE SET 101? A certifiably great book, intensely well-researched, full of valuable info for the rookie and veteran alike. A must have!

This is a great book. Even if you already work in film and tv there's something unexpected to be read. It gives you a really good heads up about on-the-set mayhem you could never really anticipate and wouldn't expect until it happens. Invaluable stuff.

I really enjoyed the insightful and often very humorous commentary given in this book. It is below my level as I'm a film industry professional, but I wanted to check it out because I'm directing my first feature and thought it would be interesting and probably entertaining. I mainly was hoping for funny stories, which is what I got! My problem with the book is there quite literally at least 200 errors in this book, if not 300 to 400. I am not exaggerating. One page alone has THREE misuses of "then" instead of "than" and there are constant typos as well. There was clearly no editor whatsoever, which is astonishing for a book with a real publisher. It's totally inexcusable. As a two-time author myself who did all of his own editing for grammar or spelling errors, I proof read my books until I found 0 mistakes. It's the author's job not just to write the book but to make sure of its quality, and that was not done here.