Lo-To-No Budget Filmmaking

Some say it's a terrible time to make movies. I hasten to disagree. Making movies using the old technology and the old business plan no longer works. If you understand how the industry now works, you can make a feature film, profitably.

All day every day I hear the same complaint: "But you need a million plus to make a movie these days. And money everywhere is tight."

Oh no you don't. And oh no it isn't!

New technology means it's never been cheaper to make a movie, if you know the insider tips and secrets that will allow you to maximise your budget and put value for money on the screen.

The money is there for the asking. The trick is to know how to ask, how much, and what for. If you need proof that low budget films are profitable, consider the success of 2011's Insidious, the year's most profitable film.

This intensive weekend seminar shows you how to shoot a 35mm or HD colour quality feature film, ninety minutes long with a Dolby stereo soundtrack for as little as £10 000. We did it at Raindance. We made the 35mm feature film Table 5 for just £278.38.

Share our first-hand experience in making movies that look great on a minimal budget.

All formats, including film, HDV and HD, and even mobile phones are discussed

Elliot Grove has developed a clear process that will assist you in producing, directing and selling your first feature film. This is the step-by-step method which launches successful careers. Movies like Pi, The Blair Witch Project, Chuck and Buck, Clerks and El Mariachi were all made using the principles that are demonstrated through lecture and video clips on this course.

The writers, directors or producers of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Waking Ned, Sliding Doors, Shawn of the Dead, Slumdog Millionare and Memento have all attended this intensive seminar before making their first films.

This course is part lecture and part group discussion.

Learn a step-by-step process using proven cost-effective, lo-to-no budget filmmaking techniques by considering the best and most efficient ways to produce, direct, shoot and edit a saleable feature film.

• Pre-Production: getting organised for an efficient shoot
• Budgets from 500 € to 1 000 000 € are discussed in detail
• Proven lo-budget short cuts and faking a million pound budget
• Using sound and music to enhance production values
• Getting professional actors
• The essentials of the art and craft of film directing
• More than fifty lo-budget shooting tips
• Avoiding the three big filmmaking mistakes

Discover the secrets and real facts behind marketing, selling and distributing your finished film throughout the world and the pre-planning you need to turn your movie into this year's cult classic, and yourself into a hot filmmaker.

NEW: Self distribution and the internet explained for filmmakers.

• The movie game: presenting your first project to investors.
• Distribution and marketing
• Publicity: the essential ingredient to selling your film
• PR kit: creating an effective package
• Film buyers and film markets
• Plotting the film festival route
• Film financing: executing a strategy for a £50,000 - £3,000,000 budget
• Honing a workable pitch for your film.
• The distribution deal

Over 15,000 film students and filmmakers have taken this course worldwide since 1993.