Filmmaking

A feature runs for two hours. Getting one made takes two years, and four hundred people have to hold the same idea at the same time. The idea itself arrived in four seconds.

Maybe you have wondered where the money in a film actually goes. Much of it never reaches the screen. It pays for insurance, permits, transport, and the hours a crew spends waiting.

Or who decides which films get made. It is rarely the people who write them.

Or where a video ends and a film begins, now that both are the same file.

If any of that has ever crossed your mind, this is for you.

This book explains how films get made. It runs from the first idea to the finished cut and takes apart the machine underneath: who makes films, who pays for them, who decides which ones exist, and what changes when a model can generate a shot.

It will not teach you to direct. There is no exercise in it and nothing to apply tomorrow. It explains how the thing works.

Sixteen chapters in four parts. You need no film school to read it. You need to be curious.