Hollywood Hacks: Innovative Techniques for Blockbuster Films on Shoestring Budgets

Hollywood Hacks is a unique, interactive guidebook packed with exclusive methods and practices developed by prolific independent filmmakers to stretch your resources farther than you ever thought possible, unlocking creative possibilities you've never imagined. Supercharge your potential as a filmmaker with innovative methods to amplify production value while saving money!

Based around the Japanese design philosophy of "Lateral Thinking with Weathered Technology," Hollywood Hacks shows you how to transform commonplace tools, technology, and materials into powerful filmmaking assets. You'll learn clever workarounds to the esoteric equipment, techniques, and production secrets around which Hollywood is built, giving you million-dollar production value on a shoestring budget.

With Hollywood Hacks, you'll learn ingenious, practical ways to increase the size, scale, and scope of your films without increasing your budget or schedule. Compiled from over a decade of Filmmaking experience across budget levels, this resource will teach you:

• What the creator of the Gameboy can teach us about thrifty filmmaking
• 12 ingenious alternatives to expensive filmmaking equipment
• How to develop the kind of mindset to make you unstoppable as a filmmaker
• The best camera set up to use for indie films for quality and value
• Over a dozen of the best, and lesser known, online resources available to filmmakers
• And so much more!

This document compiles a decade's worth of experience making films, solving problems, and overcoming obstacles on every budget level, and is a thrifty filmmakers dream for making films that punch above their weight in terms of quality, creation, and spectacle.