Lo Budget, Hi Quality
- Chapter One: Learning From the Masters: A History of Low Budget Part One
- Chapter Two: Learning from the Masters: A History of Low Budget Part Two
- Chapter Three: Developing Your Premise Part 1 - Freedom And Constraint
- Chapter Four: Developing Your Premise Part 2: Some Approaches
- Chapter Five: Key Thoughts On Writing And Directing Your Script Part One
- Chapter 6: Key Thoughts on Writing and Directing your Script Part Two
- Filmography
To make good films, we need to know how people have done it before.
What are the good low (sub £2 million) and micro (sub £300,000) films? What makes a successful low-to-micro budget film, either critically or commercially? What distinguishes these films – makes them desirable to an audience – from mainstream cinema? And how do they relate to the new technologies of our day?
History provides the answers – and some excellent films to boot.
Still from Paranormal Activity 2
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