Make Your Movie What You Need to Know About the Business and Politics of Filmmaking

First Steps (Before You Even Think of Shooting); Chapter 1 About You; Chapter 2 Who Are These People, and What Do They Do?; Chapter 3 It’s a Small World After All; Chapter 4 Relationships and Reputations; Chapter 5 Internship and Entry-Level Do’s and Don’ts; Chapter 6 This Is a Great Idea, But Is It a Movie?; Chapter 7 The Politics of Development; Chapter 8 Agents and Managers—What’s the Difference?; Chapter 9 The Money, Part 1; Production; Chapter 10 It’s a Collaborative Medium—Exactly What Does That Mean?; Chapter 11 Protecting Yourself and Your Movie; Chapter 12 What People Do, and Who They Do It With; Chapter 13 A Producer’s Life; Chapter 14 The Director, the First AD, and the UPM; Chapter 15 Decisions, Decisions; Chapter 16 Union or Non?; Chapter 17 May be We Should Go to Canada, or Someplace Else; Chapter 18 Who Is in Your Movie; Chapter 19 Prep; Chapter 20 Production; Chapter 21 A Day in the Life of a Production; It’s Just Beginning to Be a Movie Postproduction; Chapter 22 After the Smoke Clears; Chapter 23 Music; What Are You Doing Saturday Night?; Chapter 24 The Money, Part 2; Chapter 25 Will Anybody Ever See My Movie?; Chapter 26 Festivals; Chapter 27 The Glory; Chapter 28 Other Little (and Not So Little) Things That You Should Know; Chapter 29 Remember What Mom Taught You; Chapter 30 Now What?; Chapter 31 Out Takes;

Biography

Her career began as Asst to the Senior VP of Worldwide Production at Tri-Star Pictures and continued as Coordinator/Production Supervisor on projects for CBS, NBC, Disney, TNT, Showtime, Hearst Entertainment, Hallmark, 20th Century Fox, and more. Currently Chair of the Film Division of Chapman University.

"Few guide books are as honest as Make Your Movie. The film industry is one of the hardest to break into and it's important to anticipate the major setbacks that can manifest. The book offers ways to cope with creative and financial difficulties as well as how to adequately put your work out there."

-International Business Times

"Regardless if one wants to make it in the industry or not, Make Your Movie is a book that every filmmaker should read. Make Your Movie is bound to help you make a great film, hone your skill set or even get you a job. Focal Press makes some really great text books on filmmaking, but Barbara Doyle’s Make Your Movie like an encyclopedia, enclosed in a small book. Highly Recommended!"

-Film Monthly, www.filmmonthly.com