How To Be An Independent Video Producer

An invaluable guide, this book provides the nuts and bolts of setting up shop and successfully producing and marketing video programs. Jacobs shares inside business details of budgeting, profit-and-loss sheets, tax consequences and accounting; the management know-how needed to work with cast, crew, and clients; and the inspiration needed to make it all work together.


How to Be an Independent Video Producer tells you how to get a loan, how to establish credit, what equipment to own (and what to rent), the pitfalls of the single account dealing with advertising agencies, when to stop negotiating, and more.

Bob Jacobs is associate professor and co-ordinator of telecommunications at Cleveland State University. He is also the owner of a production company called Videomax.