Making Your First Feature Film: Lessons I Learned the Hard Way

By Dominick Bagnato

The tools for independent filmmaking are more accessible today than ever. Yet there is much more to successfully creating a film than access to equipment and software. Chronicling the making of his debut feature film, A Convenient Truth (2015), the author describes the practical preproduction steps needed to take a project from early concept to the first day of photography--details most filmmaking guides don't include. A scene-by-scene breakdown describes the transferrable lessons learned during the production and postproduction phases. Filmmakers' options for what to do after completing their first feature are also covered.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147667034X
• ISBN13: 9781476670348
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher