Edit your feature film in ONE vs SEVERAL Premiere Pro projects When it comes to editing a YouTube video it’s clear. You would do only one Premiere project where you would edit the whole thing as it is a 10 minute video. But what if that video wasn’t a YouTube video and instead it was […]

YOU are a very INDIE FILMMAKER. Should you do CONTRACTS? If your case is the one of a very indie filmmaker that has to ask for favours here and there to get his movie finished, the question is “Should you have a written contract with every person that is involved in the shooting of your […]

SEOTUBE – The YouTube Skill You Need to Gain Subscribers We have already covered the 7 most important techniques to increase your number of subscribers of your YouTube channel that effectively work! And because there wasn’t enough space to finish and explain in detail what the last technique in the last post that was – […]

7 Techniques that will get you MORE Subscribers! (Part 2) The seven techniques are: VRS PSYCHOCTA Uniqueness Cliffhanger Fidelization Cross-platform SEOTUBE In the previous post we have already gone over the first 3 techniques vital for you to master in order to increase your number of subscribers dramatically. But let’s move on with the next […]

7 Techniques that will get you MORE Subscribers! (Part One) The seven techniques are: VRS PSYCHOCTA Uniqueness Cliffhanger Fidelization Cross-platform SEOTUBE Which are which? What do those words stand for? What do they mean? VRS (Variable Reward System) This technique is based on rewarding the audience, your audience in a variable way. This means that […]

Why the Director Should Be the Editor of the Film Sean Baker. The Florida Project. David Lean. In which we serve. A passage to India (Oscar nomination for editing) David Lynch (2 features). Eraserhead. Inland empire. Shane Carruth (2 features). Primer. Upstream Color. The Coen Brothers (14 features). They have edited all of their films […]

Will being An Ass Help You be Successful? There are countless examples of people that over their extraordinary careers have been assholes with the people in their team and despite that they have accomplished great things. Great leader examples Some examples of extraordinary people that achieved extraordinary success and have been assholes are Steve Jobs, […]

“How to get more views?” That question is not really the relevant question here. But let’s see what views depend on first. What views depend on? Views depend on many things that you cannot control. How many retweets will your video have on Twitter, how many times your video will be shared on Facebook, how […]

Let’s Face It, All Movies Are Superficial! Beware, this is a kind of philosophical post. Be prepared to challenge yourself to think in abstract terms. In essence, a movie it’s just a representation of something else, might that be an idea, a story that happened in real life or a character. In the end the […]

Complex VS Complicated movies You might be thinking that there is no difference between complex and complicated movies. But in order to make that assumption we need to be sure what does complex and complicated really mean. Complicated means difficult to analyze, understand or explain. Complex means composed of many related parts, having a complicated […]

Location Scouting for Indie Film (How To Guide) The first thing that you need to have clear is that if you are an independent filmmaker and you can’t rely on much certainties that money offers you, you must search for places that you know will be the best place to shoot because it fits the […]

Only WORRY about What You Can CONTROL, FORGET the REST Haven’t you had the feeling of overwhelming and stress when you face multiple challenges at the same time and you don’t know which one to tackle first?  If you hesitate the wave will definitely hit you so hard that you won’t be able to get […]

OVERCOME COMPLAINING Right NOW! Energy cannot be destroyed The key principle here is that “energy cannot be destroyed, it only can change or be transformed, but never dissappear” What does this statement have in common with what Jack Ma talks about from a business perspective? Complaints from a business perspective Well, from a business perspective, […]

IT’S KEY! Have a CLEAR VISION of What YOU Want Should you bend just for a paycheck? There’ll be a lot of times during a job that you will think: “Why am I doing this? Should I be doing this? Should I be spending my time and efforts in something that I don’t really like […]

2. Act Design by Robert Mckee Progressive complications Progressive complications it’s the second element of the five-part design of a story that goes from the Inciting Incident to the Crisis/Climax. In a story it’s where the the plot gets more complicated and more conflict happens because there are more challenges for our main character/s to […]