SWAMP Presents “Pre-Production For Extreme Low Budget Features” With Filmmaker Kelley Baker.

PRE-PRODUCTION FOR EXTREME LOW BUDGET FEATURES
Saturday, November 1, 2008 (10am-2pm)
Rice University Media Center
Instructor: Kelley Baker (www.angryfilmmaker.com)
Cost: $50 – General Public or $40 – SWAMP Members and Students

Workshop Details:
In this work shop Kelley Baker will walk you through the ins and outs of everything you need to do before you get to the set. From staged readings and actor rehearsals, to script break downs and securing lots of free stuff Kelley has seen and done it all. How do you know if you’ve hired the right crew? What kind of insurance should you have, and how much? What happens if one of your locations falls through at the last minute? Do you have location releases, actor releases? Who gets a certificate of insurance? How long should Pre-production even last? I believe that your movie is made before you ever step on the set. If you get Pre-production right then the rest of your schedule should go smooth, and when it doesn’t you need to know what to do to get it back on track.

About The Filmmaker:
“Angry Filmmaker” Kelley Baker has written and directed three full-length features, including KICKING BIRD (2005), THE GAS CAFE (2001) and BIRDDOG (1999). The first two were shot digitally and cost $5000 and $4000 respectively.

Kelley Baker is well known for working with other people. He was the sound designer on six of Gus Van Sant’s feature films including, MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO, GOOD WILL HUNTING, and FINDING FORRESTER. He designed the sound on Todd Haynes feature film, FAR FROM HEAVEN, with Dennis Quaid and Julieanne Moore. He was an Editor and a Sound Designer for Will Vinton’s “The Adventures of Mark Twain”, and on four Claymation Specials for CBS.

Kelley also wrote and directed 8 short films which have aired on PBS, The Learning Channel, Canadian and Australian television. His films have been shown at Film Festivals like London, Sydney, Annecy and Edinburgh, Sundance, Chicago, Mill Valley and Aspen.

Kelley is also producing and directing DANGEROUS: KAY BOYLE, a feature documentary chronicling the life of “the most dangerous woman in America” (SI Hiyakawa, 1967). This work in progress was featured at the Independent Feature Film Market in New York.

To eke out a living Kelley directs commercials, corporate and educational videos. His clients have included NIKE, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Department of Juvenile Justice, Howard University, and Wells Fargo Bank. Kelley is currently self distributing his short and feature films and his book The Angryfilmmaker’s Survival Guide: Making The Extreme Low Budget Film.

Website: http://www.swamp.org/