Contracts, Releases, & Other Legal Issues in Indie Filmmaking

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Learn about movie contracts, releases, and other legal issues an independent filmmaker needs to be aware of in this free instructional video clip.

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Contracts, Releases, & Other Legal Issues in Indie Filmmaking
Hello I’m Corey Turner here on ExpertVillage.com and today we’re talking about low budget moving making. Now within the past twenty-four months I’ve written, produced and directed two independent films and I’ve also just wrapped and just finished completely a children’s DVD. As I go into every production and especially as I come out of every production, I’ve learned so many more things and today I hope to pass that information and knowledge on to you. So you’ve decided that you want to make a low budget movie, but you don’t know where to start. Step number one, this is one of the most important things for me, go to your library, your bookstore, search on the internet and find a book that talks about movie contracts. Now if you’re a movie maker and you want to be creative and you’re ready to start filming, usually you try to rush pass this part of the process, but it is vital. And as we talk on each step of the way, we’re always going to revert back to the legal issues and so it’s a good foundation to have that right from the start. Now legal contracts, the things you really want to focus on are your actor releases, your location releases, you also want to talk about equipment and music, music is a vital thing. So you want to have the releases so that you have control of that and also you want to make sure that the script, whether it be yours or somebody else’s, you’ve addressed from the very beginning how to handle that and you have the contracts in place to do that.

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Expert: Cory Turner is the President/CEO of ReQuest Entertainment. Read More