Cheap Movie Tricks: How to Shoot a Short Film for Under $2,000
By Rickey Bird
Copyright © 2017 Rickey Bird.
Published by Mango Publishing Group, a division of Mango Media Inc.
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Library of Congress Cataloging:
Name: Rickey Bird
Cheap Movie Tricks: How to Shoot a Film for Less Than $2,000
Library of Congress Control Number: 2017906610
ISBN: (paperback) 978-1-63353-543-5, (ebook) 978-1-63353-544-2
BISAC category code PER004010 PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production
Printed in the United States of America
Dedicated to the strongest woman I know
Anita Catherine Vivo-Williams
I love you always Grammy
TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Experience of Sensory Detail
Introduction to Short Films
Big Tricks, Small Packages
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