AboutAlessandro Machi Expertise Videotape editing, archiving, and videotape remastering. Experienced in live event cinematography plus interviews and b-Roll. Have provided Video Post Production Services for independent film & video productions that have been distributed both nationwide and worldwide. Have experience in both video and film. Not too familiar with Hd at the moment although I did operate a B-roll camera for an HD independent feature.
Regional Emmy Winner, also an Emmy Internship Scholarship Winner when I first finished college back in the mid 80's.
I Enjoy filmmaking as well and one day I may attempt a feature film in super-8mm although the film Dali, Dali, Dali seems to get longer with each passing month.
Experience 25 years of Film & Video Production & Editing Experience including low budget & quality control. I enjoy filming in Super-8.
Organizations Founded Action! Film and Video Production Club while in College.
Publications www.Opednews.com
Education/Credentials Four Year College Program, was one or two classes short of graduation.
Awards and Honors Regional Emmy Winner, 8 Time Vision Award Winner, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Internship Winner, Film Festival Winner for several different Super-8 Films,
Past/Present Clients Sony Pictures, Prudential Jon Douglas, In Defense of Animals, Humane Society of the United States, Ivy Gullickson
Expert: Alessandro Machi Date: 1/5/2008 Subject: letter for getting funding
Question A small production company is making my novel into a movie and I need to put together a letter to get funding for the movie. Do you know of anywhere I can find some sample letters that I can use to write mine?
Answer I'll be perfectly honest with you, I found a discombobulation in your question. If a production company is making your novel into a movie, why do you need to put together a letter for funding?
You can probably find about a thousand million production companies that would gladly make your movie, if you come up with the funding. If the production company you found is going to finance the movie or find funds to make the movie, you might want to send them a letter of support that they can package into their own fund raising materials.
Just be sure they are a legitimate company because your name is on the line. If they raise just enough money to spend it on their overhead and salaries for a year or two but never make the movie, that will not reflect well on you if you gave them a letter of support that was used to help raise funds.
Congratulations on being an author! Converting a book to a movie script can be just as challenging as trying to write an original script. I'm curious who is handling that aspect of the process as it may prove more difficult than getting the funding since how the book is turned into a script can change the film budget by millions and millions of dollars.
One screenwriter might want to show an actual battle between two armies, another writer might simply want to have the sound of the war in the background as the lead actor writes a letter to a friend in which we hear the voice over of the letter. These two interpretations of the same scene can literally shave a million dollars or more from the budget.
Who the production company gets to convert the book to script may be what actually helps get the film getting funding.
