Filmmaking
Find out about the filmmaking process
filmmaking guide
the nuts and bolts
Welcome to the new filmmaking guide. Here you can out more about the filmmaking and exhibition process, from pre-production through to marketing and distribution.
view the guidecase studies
find out how they got there
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Case Study: Ken Loach
Ken Loach on his path into filmmaking, on censorship and the UK Film Industry.
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Case Study: Alex Heffes
Alex Heffes discusses the job of a film composer, the experience of being forced to listen to producers' CD collections and the importance of collaboration.
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Case Study: Asif Kapadia
The director of The Warrior and The Return on his filmmaking career.
how-to
insiders guides to production
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How to Make a Horror Movie: Blood
Special Make Up Effects Designer Paul Hyett provides a simple recipe to create the red stuff.
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How to Make a Horror Movie: Creating Horror Characters
A guide to one of the most important elements in any horror film script.
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How to Make a Horror Movie: Decapitation
April Pearson takes us through the steps of her own decapitation whilst on the set of Tormented.
behind the scenes
what really happens on set
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Directors' Lab 2009
Film Network meets the proud selectees for this year's Director's Lab, as they prepare to travel up to Edinburgh.
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Dogging: A Love Story - Director's Set Report
Acclaimed shorts director Simon Ellis writes here about making the transition to features with his debut, Dogging: A Love Story.
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Faintheart: set visit
Director Vito Rocco's prize for winning the Myspace Movie Mash Up competition was a £1 million budget and instant greenlight for his first feature Faintheart. We visited the set last winter to see how filming was going.
