This is a great value! What are you waiting for?
This e-book is an extensive look at the process of making entertaining low-budget video, with a particular emphasis on visual effects.
It's a comprehensive e-book covering various facets of production, and literally hundreds of tips on managing impressive-looking work with limited resources. It is densely packed with information, and is currently 101 pages long.
I have little "film-school" experience. Therefore, I probably get some terms wrong. Nor am I a real success in this field (yet) - sporadic contract work and 2000 visitors per day is not the same as being a successful director! What I do have to offer, though, is a whole lot of practical in-the-trenches experience working with virtually no resources and making movies anyway.
This book is for the home movie maker who wants a straightforward and honest guide to making fun, visually impressive movies when you don't have money, professional actors, or much of anything to work with.
This is a book from a guy who made "Duel 2030" for $550, who made "Point of no Return" in 72 hours. This is about making the best of poor schedules, tiny budgets, and no outside support.
This book pulls out a lot of practical insights from personal experience (label all your tapes, save often while editing, how to do pyro safely, etc), some genuinely creative ideas and techniques, and valuable resources and ideas culled from dozens of other indie-film sources and professionals and semi-professionals I've come in contact with.
(Indeed, this book is loaded with links to dozens of the most useful movie-making websites and info I've found in my seven years of learning.) And it gives you a pretty solid explanation of how to do all sorts of effects shots - how to create pretty much ANY visual element.
The price of this product is currently $3.49. This book assumes you're on a sub-$2000, maybe even sub-$400 budget, and offers you ways to make your movie as well as possible on your terms with almost no money, like I did.
Literally hundreds of techniques, in every category through the entire process of planning, recording, editing, and distributing a short video. This is for any of you out there who want to have production values that blow away your viewers, and cost very little.
If you're actually planning to make an independent video, and your resources are slim, I'd bet that you'll find some of this info very useful and be able to maximize the efficiency and quality of your production and save (and perhaps earn) more than you actually spend getting this e-book.
At the very least, hopefully with this text you can avoid some of the stupid mistakes that I had to learn about the hard way.
This product, like the others, is available for purchase at my KAGI store. The store is available here.
When you've recieved your entry data, you can download the ebook through this link. David Ello told me that people weren't buying this because it was too cheap and people are falsely assuming that the product is bad because it is sold for this little. Nonetheless, I refuse to raise my price. Instead, I'll act like even more of an idiot and add to the quality of the package, by promising to periodically update the e-book, and start another one to put into the package, about how to make PC adventure games with Adventure Maker, using my experience with "Traveler's Enigma" as a basis for the book.
So, know that if you buy this, you are entitled to occasional updates and additions to the info shown here.
Below is a list of some of the topics in the first half of the e-book package (I was serious when I said hundreds of tips!):
As I said, though, this book is only $3.49.
This is a great value! What are you waiting for?