GIRLS MAKE MOVIES

How do you make a movie? GIRLS MAKE MOVIES doesn't just tell you. This book shows young readers, by taking them behind the scenes at a movie studio and handing them the reins.

GIRLS MAKE MOVIES follows the reader's progress via a second-person point of view as they create SASHA VERSUS ZOMBIES, a fictitious film about a YouTube makeup artist who has to disguise herself and her best friends to escape a hungry zombie horde. With a fun, illustrated Choose-Your-Own-Adventure style layout, GIRLS MAKE MOVIES takes Middle Grade readers through each step of bringing SASHA VERSUS ZOMBIES from script to screen. GIRLS MAKE MOVIES follows along the true-to-life timeline of a Hollywood studio, from the development of SASHA VERSUS ZOMBIES, to the pre-production, production and finally, post production, this book not only lays out exactly how a movie gets made, but along the way, it shows the vast array of jobs available. Girls will meet drivers, script supervisors, painters, concept artists, gaffers, grips, camera operators and foley artists. They'll learn what these women do, what tools and techniques they use every day, what they love about their job, how they got there, and how other girls can get there, too. Mallory O'Meara is the award winning and bestselling author of The Lady from the Black Lagoon and Girly Drinks. Every week, she co-hosts the literary podcast Reading Glasses. She lives in the mountains near Los Angeles with her two cats, where she is working on her next nonfiction book.