On Making a Found Footage Film

After almost two decades the first guide dedicated solely to the making of a found-footage film has arrived. In this book you will be offered clear advice on how to write, direct and produce a quality found footage film. Advice coming from over half a dozen young film makers who are in post production of their films as this book is being published.On Making a Found Footage Film is more than a how to guide it is a call to refocus and redesign a genre of film making. To take if from a sub genre of horror films into comedy, action, suspense and straight drama. There is no limit to what the found-footage film can become in the hands of inventive new film-makers.


This is actually the first book that covers the basics of shooting a found footage film from beginning to end.

It features interviews with a number of young film makers who are about to release their found footage films. Below are a few of the trailers. First The Pigman Murders

Next Found Footage 3D.

Next the complete Night of the Vampire short film.

If you would learn how to make your own found footage film from the ones who have actually done it then my book, On Making a Found Footage Film maybe for you. This is perhaps the most under investigated area of the low budget film making world. My book is the first of its kind and I hope that it will aid many beginning film makers to make quality found footage films.

Now I would like to leave you with my favorite of the short form films that I saw while working on the book.
The title is Jessie's Girl.  The film maker is one of the best that I have ever encountered.


Jessie's Girl from Amanda Forehand on Vimeo.

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