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Movie Making Manual/How to navigate this book
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There are several ways to find your way around this book:
If you want a fast overview for the entire filmmaking process, look at The Movie Making Manual's Basic Basics.
Now there are general overviews which briefly explain all the steps for an area.
For Production, the overview is at Movie Making Manual's Production Overview.
For Post-Production, the overview is at Movie Making Manual's Post Production Overview. (Hopefully, overviews will be written for the other sections soon.)
To get started learning filmmaking, look at Movie Making Manual's section on Education.
You could use the table of contents on the front page. The links on the right in small type are just a selection of the total pages available. The links on the far left (e.g. Funding and budgeting) will take you to a table of contents for that category. These lists-of-pages-within-a-category are automatically produced so they are a little ugly but they do have the advantage that they contain every single page within that category (as compared to the manually-produced front page which only contains a small selection of the complete set of pages)
Alternatively, you could use the hierarchically organised contents page. By following the links to the sub-categories, you can access every single page in the book.
Please be aware that Wikipedia has a lot of film related information. Useful Wikipedia categories are:
Video and movie technology
Film techniques
Film production
Also be aware that Wikiversity has a section on learning filmmaking which is just getting started. The first course in filmmaking is at:
Wikiversity Course #01 – Learning the Basics of Filmmaking