Creating the Film Director Stars of Tomorrow:

The Film Director/Producer Lifestyle

The Film Makers Lifestyle has variety. You are always working on different film projects and going to interesting film festivals overseas. Here are what past students report back as what they love about their new lifestyle.

• Getting paid to do what you love.
• Working with creative  people
• Travel: A Film Maker travels all over the world.
• Working on passion projects that you love heart and soul

The Online Film School shows you how to make this Lifestyle a reality.

What you learn on the Online Film School

Finance: Five Ways to Finance your Film:  

What you will learn:

• The Golden Rule of Low budget film making: This rule is paramount to your success.
• How to raise thousands of dollars on the internet for your film production. We are doing the same thing now for our next film.
• Five Sure Fire techniques to Finance your Film

Screenplay:  How to write a Screenplay:  

What you will learn:

• How to develop your story
• Brainstorming the film idea via five exercises.
•  If you follow the exercises, you will have a short film story ready to go into preproduction
• How to format your script with our Script Writing Software.
• How to use the Screenplay Software

 The Film Equipment The Tools of the Trade

Have you ever phoned a camera store and found that you were bombarded with technical stats and information aimed at selling you irrelevant equipment.  You buy the equipment and find you are not happy with the equipment. After this session this will never happen to you again.

• What is the minimal Camera Equipment, Sound Equipment, Lights equipment, Grips Equipment you need to get your film shot professionally
• Where do you buy the equipment and exactly how much does it cost?
• On a tight budget, where do you rent the equipment and how much should you pay in rentals.
• We show you an example of one of our top student films,  shot with the recommended film equipment.

Knowledge is power and this session will also save you thousands of dollars.

Casting your film with the Best Actors. 

We show you how to cast your film with the very best actors in town.   Have you ever looked at a student film and found the actors performence seem stilted. One of the most important parts of film making is attracting the very best actors available to you.

What you will learn:

• Which Actor websites should you advertise your films audition.
• How to easily find the best actors in your city and have 50 – 100 show at your audition
• How to run an effective Casting.We have a live demonstration of how a casting happens.

Locations:  Saving thousands of dollars on your locations.

Finding locations can be very expensive business. With hundreds of short films produced on our film courses over the years, we have a set formulae to attract nearly all of your locations for free or for a minimal expense.

In this session we will demonstrate how to attract locations for free.

What you will learn:

• How to find Locations for Free.
• Our location process that guarantees the very best locations for minimal cost

How to make it as a Film Director in the film world 

This is the Success Blueprint to make it in the film business and make a living. At the end of this session you will know exactly how to proceed with your film production and how to get support from the right people. You will know the direction you need to take.

What you will learn: 

Film Directing on Set : How to Direct a Film Scene ? 

One of our Student Productions Suburban Terror

• How to shoot your film
• The Shots that compose a scene
• How a Director prepares for a shoot in preproduction
• How a Director prepares a shot list and a Storyboard
• How to block Actors on a Set
• How a shoot operates  and how the Director works the set.

 

Film Directing — Postproduction

How to Post Produce and edit your own Film?

• The absolute truth about what you need to do in postproduction. This is the difference between Professional and Amateur films.
• We show you the most effective Post Production Path
• We will show you the very best quickest way to learn editing or if you choose how to hire a professional editor.
• We have a Demo edit session using Final Cut Pro Studio and if you love it we will show you too how can  quickly learn to edit.
• How to Sound Post your film and where. Sound Post is so important an is often overlooked meaning that the film looses the professional feel
• Where to find Top Class Sound Post Production. 

Film Festivals and Film Sales:

• The Top 10 Film Festivals
• Start with the end in mind. Learn how the Film Market works.
• How to enter Film Festivals with your first short film or if you are an emerging film maker how to enter the A list Film Festivals.
• How to monetize your short film on the internet for profit
• What you can start and do now to create a guaranteed fan base and audience. This strategy if implemented correctly will generate ten thousand fully subscribed followers who will buy your films within five years. In five years this strategy will be worth $50K per film released. In ten years it will be worth $ 250,000. These are conservative honest estimates. However this is just extra money and nothing to do with the money made from the film market which can be millions of dollars for a hit film.
• The Film Market: How feature films are sold in the market. We show you how the film market works and how films are sold and how the film makers profit.

Yes it is a huge amount that we cover and that is why so many previous course participants have said. “It was worth every single cent”.

Paul Condoleon  attended our one week practical film School in 2009 and within that year produced “Dealing with Destiny” an 82 minute feature film shot on the amazing Red Camera. He made his living as a GP Doctor and had never made a film before.    Here is what he said about our Film Course. “Awesome course. Straight after the course I produced my first feature film ‘Dealing with Destiny’.  The Film was released in 2011 in Hoyts Cinema. This is all thanks to the Sydney Film Base Film Course.  You want the fast way to film success, take the Online film school”  Paul Condoleon  Here is the Trailer for Paul Condoleon’s first film  ”Dealing with Destiny” made straight after the course

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ON THE ONLINE FILM SCHOOL:

• How to make  amazing professional looking films for next to nothing.
• The Six ways to Finance your film including the amazing new sites that help you raise the money.
• Script: the new way of making your script happen fast. The IDEA generation process. The quick way to write a story. .YOUR 5 – 100 page script and how easy it will be to write it.
• How to format your script professionally.
• How to use the Free Script Writing Software we supply on the Online Film School
• The film equipment needed to make your film happen. We give you the absolute truth on the equipment that will make your film look awesome: camera lights and sound equipment, grips. How much does the equipment cost? To buy or to rent?
• My Top Three low budget Cameras. These are the cameras to use in 2011
• Casting – how to find the best possible cast and how to run a casting process.YOU MUST SCORE THE BEST POSSIBLE ACTORS FOR YOUR FILM. I show you how it is done with actual actors doing a casting.

• Crew: keep the crew lean, mean and keen. After years of shooting low budget films, I will itemise the vital crew. You must find the best possible crew who can work with the HD medium and keep the crew to a minimum. (Big Crews when you make it)
• How to produce and organise your film and shoot with small micro Budgets. Preproduction: THE A- Z of Organizing your Shoot.
  
• How to find your locations for Zero or very low nominal fees. Locations should not cost money. There is a way of getting them for very little money or Zero.
• The Shoot 3 – 4 Screen minutes Per Day. The shooting Process How to run a smooth shooting day?
• The shots How to cover a scene in a film photographically
• Directing Actors on Set. How to do it
• Directing Crew on Set  How to do it.
• Post ProductionYou must buy your own Post-Production or involve someone who owns their own Post-Production. We will demonstrate Final Cut Studio( Final Cut Pro, Soundtrack Pro.)
• How to become an A -List film director or screenwriter or producer

• Action Plan .. you will have the clear steps to take each week to make your film a reality. A detailed weekly Action Plan on the timing of what you have to do to complete your film
• The revolutionary investment structure for your film and how you make it happen NOW. This is really exciting because I show you how to green light your own film NOW
• Which film festivals to enter.The right film festival strategy will move you faster to making movies. Essential. One can waste time entering the wrong festivals. The 12 Must Enter Film Festivals.
• You will make your film on Weekends now without giving up your day job.
• A blow-by-blow marketing plan to get the best possible Sales Agent and distributor for your film.
• How to maximise your profits on your film. It is still a product that needs to be sold for the highest price and reach your audience