Professor Myrl Schreibman
Award-winner Producer/Director and Adjunct Professor at UCLA, Myrl Schreibman has produced for Theater, Feature Film, Television and the Concert Stage in his 40 years experience as a producer. He has produced both independently and for studios and his book The Indie Producer’s Handbook, Creative Producing from A-Z has been delcared by Movie Maker magazine as the #1 book on Producing. It is now translated into Chinese and is being used by independent producers and film students in China. His projects include the cult film classics The Clonus Horror and Hunter’s Blood, the highly-successful movie for television The Girl, The Gold Watch and Everything, as wel as Chicago in Concert, The Emmy Awards and the Broadway productions of On the Waterfront and The Ice Show.
This course will help you understand producing techniques and the relationship that creativity plays on a film or video project that has specific limitations and restrictions of time and budget. Since the media and industry has changed so drastically (and is ever changing) in the past several years, it becomes necessary for today’s producer to be ready for tomorrow and clearly know the nuts and bolts of what producing is all about. Topics include the investment package and thinking like a producer, creative theories of producing and the concept relationships and ego play in those theories, preparing a budget, breaking down a screenplay and preparing a production board to see the choreography of production and being able to make those crucial producing decisions. We will also tackle the details of the production period, and the complexities and inter-relationships of the post production period with a final focus on what to do after the project is completed.
- Lesson 01: The Mind of the Producer
- Lesson 02: What is Producing About?
- Lesson 03: The Project
- Lesson 04: The Budget
- Lesson 05: Above the Line
- Lesson 06: Below the Line, Part 1
- Lesson 07: Below the Line, Part 2
- Lesson 08: Post-Production
- Lesson 09: To the Screen
- Lesson 10: Administrative Tasks
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