So You Want to Be a Producer

Name: So You Want to Be a Producer
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ISBN: 9781400051663

ISBN-10: 1400051665

ISBN-13: 9781400051663

Edition: 2005

Authors: Lawrence Turman

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Few jobs in Hollywood are as shrouded in mystery as the role of the producer. What does it take to be a producer, how does one get started, and what on earth does one actually do? In So You Want to Be a Producer Lawrence Turman, the producer of more than forty films, including The Graduate, The River Wild, Short Circuit, and American History X, and Endowed Chair of the famed Peter Stark Producing Program at the University of Southern California, answers these questions and many more. Examining all the nuts and bolts of production, such as raising money and securing permissions, finding a story and developing a script, choosing a director, hiring actors, and marketing your project, So You…

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List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/6/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.24" wide x 7.95" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



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Preface


Why Be a Producer?


Can Producing Be Taught?


You Already Are a Producer


Looking Back: How I Became a Producer


What Does a Producer Do?


Where Do You Find a Story?


How Do You Control the Story?


How Do You Develop the Script?


Where Do You Get the Money to Make the Movie?


How Do You Actually Produce the Movie?


How Do You Get People to See the Movie?


What Does Producing Really Take?


How Hard Is It?


Producing The Graduate: A Case Study



Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Correspondence



Contributor Credits


Index