In this CD-ROM set, an entire film school is waiting for you: the classrooms, hallways, film footage, professors and visiting professionals.

In How to Make Your Movie: An Interactive Film School, the user explores a real film school environment, where the nooks and crannies hold the most useful secrets of filmmaking. In each classroom, leading film professionals and professors from the world's finest film schools share their knowledge and experience. By showing step-by-step the development of a short film, the program demystifies the filmmaking process.

There are two ways to explore the Interactive Film School: you can travel through the whole building and all the materials, step by step, room by room, as in a real film school. Or you can use the Shortcuts menu, a blueprint with direct access to the room and specific information you're looking for. Either way, on all four floors you'll find distinct rooms dedicated to the different stages of the filmmaking process.

The second floor has five rooms: the Film Grammar Room allows hands-on experience in the basics of filmmaking; the Festival Room has information on festivals all over the world; the Equipment Room features an interactive Lighting Studio and a light metering exercise, the Film History Room and Library are full of books and resources; and of course there's the Restroom in case you need it.

The Third floor is completely dedicated to the production of a short film. You can become a part of the whole filmmaking process starting in the Research Room and going on to the Script Room where you'll find an old scriptwriting computer full of last year's trials and errors. Then you can move to the Pre-production Room which will prepare you to make your film.

After you've shot your movie, go from the Production Room to the Post-Production Room for editing and sound mixing.

On the fourth floor is the Screening room where you can watch last year's class film in its entirety. And if you were a good student, print your own Film School diploma and enjoy a bottle of champagne.

In each of the five production rooms, you'll hear from leading professional filmmakers and educators at NYU, UCLA and other well-known film schools as they share their understanding of the art and the craft of filmmaking.

The package includes a 3 CD-ROM set.

How to Make Your Movie has won eight awards, including the New York Festivals Grand Award for Best of Show. And after screenings at nearly 30 film festivals in 12 countries, the program seems to resonate with aspiring filmmakers, film and video professionals, and people who love film.

What's taught in the Interactive Film School?
Choose a classroom below to see the material covered there.

---Film Grammar Room
---Film Festivals Room
---Equipment Room
---Film History Room
---Library
---Restroom
---Research Room
---Scriptwriting Room
---Pre-production Room
---Production Room
---Post-production Room
---Screening Room
---Editing Footage
---Academic Syllabus