The Producer's Brain: A Pocket Guide to Thinking Like a Film Producer

Producers are right brain/left brain people. They must have the skills to incubate and shepherd creative ideas alongside the ability to manage complex negotiations, financing arrangements, and large groups of people. Over the course of the following pages, I will break down what I’ve learned from operating on both the independent and corporate sides of media and film, and help you to understand the invisible forces that govern the content business. We’ll look at each aspect of the producer’s process from finding an idea, to acquiring intellectual property, sourcing financing, pitching, and relationship-building. Through this lens, we’ll examine the economic and social underpinnings that drive decision making in the industry.

• The Idea: The Seven Elements of a Viable Story for Screen, Stage or Fiction
• The Mission Impossible Movies (Story In Action Book 4)
• Save The Writing! Developing a Series with Series Bibles: A Production Guide for Writing Series Bibles for TV, Film and Fiction!
• Story-Flash: Step-by-Step Technology of Plot Development (Story-Flash System Book 1)
• The 24 Laws of Storytelling: A Practical Handbook for Great Storytellers
• The Craft of Scene Writing: Beat by Beat to a Better Script
• Broadway Investing 101: How to Make Theater and Yes, Even Make Money
• HOLLYWOOD ROLODEX: 2018-2020 Edition: Screenwriter's Marketing and Resource Directory
• Into the Woods: A Five-Act Journey Into Story
• Story Maps: TV Drama: The Structure of the One-Hour Television Pilot