THE ACTION/CUT FILMMAKING
DELUXE VIDEOTAPE AND DVD
PRO COLLECTIONS

Action/Cut Filmmaking Industry Seminars has produced its acclaimed seminar experience as a 12-hour intensive workshop on VHS tapes and DVDs available to everyone wishing for a comprehensive study of the entire filmmaking process.

The best film directing seminar on the planet! - Imagine News

This is the most unique series of learning tools in the film industry that provides an in-depth look inside the directing craft on a step-by-step, shot-by-shot professional level of production from the written page through the moviemaking process to the final film.

Don't miss owning this complete and career-essential filmmaking course!

THESE VIDEOTAPES & DVDs WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH A FULL AND
LASTING FILMMAKING EXPERIENCE THAT WILL OFFER YOU:

  • First-hand professional knowledge of the production & directing process from A to Z
  • A continuing source to ignite your passion and realize your film dreams
  • Your personal home reference library of the most career-essential and inspirational filmmaking videotape collection that you can study and review anytime you wish

Terrific...filled with practical advice that you won't find in film school!
- Creative Screenwriting


Excellent seminar...like a magician opening the curtain into the filmmaking process! - MovieMaker

Action/Cut motivated me to finally make my first film!
- Karen Sandler, Writer/Producer

Better than 4 years of film school...and I went to NYU! - Brad Jacques, Director/Writer

SEMINAR TOPICS COVERED
The Deluxe Videotape & DVD Pro Collections are a 12-hour home study course
complete with interactive workbooks.

THE DIRECTING CRAFT

  • A DIRECTOR'S JOURNEY

  • LANGUAGE & TOOLS OF DIRECTING

  • HOW TO PREP YOUR MOVIE

  • WORKING WITH ALL DEPARTMENTS

  • THE CRAFT OF VISUALIZATION

The Action/Cut Method, Film Schools, Film & TV Industry, Getting Started, Networking, Shot Breakdown, Lenses, 180-Rule, Angles, Filters, Tracking, Transitions, Foreground, Preparing the Script, Budgets & Schedules, Casting, Location Scouting, Pacing, Working with Departments, Style, Visualization Skills, Set Local Color & Atmosphere, Proper Storytelling Manipulation

INDIE FEATURE FILMMAKING

  • FINANCING MOVIES

  • PUTTING TOGETHER YOUR INDIE DEAL

  • DISTRIBUTION: FOREIGN & DOMESTIC

  • FESTIVALS & INDUSTRY BUZZ

  • INDIE FILMMAKING

Directing Features vs. Television, Final Cut, Completion Bonds, Structuring An Indie Film Deal, Private Financing/Reality Check, Selling Your Finished Film, Producer's Reps, Preparing Trailer & Artwork, Distribution: Foreign & Domestic, The Markets, Festivals and Media, Self-Promotion, Career Building, Creating Your Industry Buzz

 

FEATURE FILM
SCENE STUDIES
 

  • HOW TO OPEN A MOVIE
     & SET-UP YOUR STORY

  • CHARACTER COMEDY IN DRAMA

  • THE ONE-SHOT SCENE

  • EMOTIONAL CLIMAX (SLINGSHOT)

  • THE FLASHBACK SCENE

  • RESOLUTION OF YOUR STORY

These scene studies provides an intensive learning experience of the shot-by-shot process to fully illustrate how to plan, prep, and shoot the six study titles. From casting and location choices to how to visualize, pace, and stylize each scene to achieve the writer's intent and translate the action, to fully optimize performances, to breaking it down, this is a comprehensive study series of actual feature film scenes.

  • Scene Discussion: what is on the page, subtext, action. characters. 

  • Breakdown: shot diagrams, location plan, schedules/budgets, homework.

  • In-Depth Analysis: visual translation from the page to the screen.

  • Viewing Dailies: every shot on your
    list as it actually was executed.

  • The Final Scene: how it was edited with sound/visual/CGI effects, and
    the magic of music.

There is no better way to learn the Filmmaking Process from page to shoot to final film than to hear and see it as it actually was filmed utilizing real pro script scenes and film clips.

 THE BUSINESS
 OF DIRECTING

  • HOW BAD DO YOU WANT IT?

  • THE PASSION OF FILMMAKING

  • THE FASTEST WAY TO DIRECT

  • AGENTS & MANAGERS

  • DIGITAL REVOLUTION

  • PREPARING A DIRECTOR'S REEL

- - - PLUS A SURPRISE BONUS - - -
An exclusive interview with a top film & TV Guest Speaker Director
"The Work & Career of Directing"

The VHS Video & DVD Learning Series comes with:
Workbooks - Essential Production Info - Scene Studies - Shot Lists - Location Diagrams 
Actual Dailies - Financing Set-Up - Distribution Deals - Industry Script Scenes - Real Film Clips

Action/Cut is successful in demystifying the tasks of a director and empowering participants...would recommend it to anyone! - CineWomen

Learned a great deal about telling an effective visual story...take this seminar before your next project! - Filmmakers Alliance

Highly recommend Action/Cut...the complete directorial process!
- IndieVision

"Directing is like riding a wild rollercoaster ride...if you enjoy the process, the adventure, and the magic-making, and have a burning desire to tell stories visually, I have not found anything more exciting or challenging in life!  I designed this comprehensive film learning collection on VHS tapes and DVDs to bring this passionate cinematic energy and practical production knowledge to your own home study at your personal leisure...enjoy!"

Guy Magar - Action/Cut Filmmaking Seminar Founder & working Director/Writer/Producer
 

VHS TAPES:
Retail Price:
$349.95
Filmmaking.net Price: $179.95

DVDs:

Retail Price:
$379.95
Filmmaking.net Price: $299.95

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including any questions you might have about shipping charges, and universities/organizations/libraries on-site institutional licensing purchases.