Fast, Cheap & Under Control: Lessons Learned From the Greatest Low-Budget Movies of All Time

Roger Corman, Producer ★★★★★ The value of cameos Writing to your resources Long, continuous takes Re-Shoots Rehearsals Casting Skipping film school Creating an emotional connection Poverty breeds creativity Kill your darlings Pre-production planning Going low-tech Sound thinking Learn the tricks and pitfalls of low-budget filmmaking from 33 successful independent films and the filmmakers who created them. Includes never before published interviews with low-budget mavericks such as Steven Soderbergh, Roger Corman, Jon Favreau, Henry Jaglom, and many more. Learn the lessons from such classics as Clerks, Night of the Living Dead, Swingers, Open Water, El Mariachi, Slacker, sex, lies and videotape, The Blair Witch Project, Eraserhead, Monty Python & The Holy Grail, Dark Star, Return of the Secaucus Seven, The Little Shop of Horrors, Caged Heat and Targets. John Carpenter, Director, Halloween, Starman, Escape from New York Jonathan Demme, Director, Silence of the Lambs Lloyd Kaufman, President, Troma Entertainment, Creator, Toxic Avenger Stuart Gordon, director, Re-Animator John Badham, director, Saturday Night Fever, Dracula, Blue Thunder Derek Pell, Editor, DingBat Magazine Dr. Linda Seger, consultant on over 2,000 screenplays, best-selling author of Making a Good Script Great and 7 other books