KEEP Your Head Above The TSUNAMI When You Know You’re Gonna Drown When you drown For this particular post I must beggin with a quote: We suffer more in imagination than in reality Seneca Why this quote? Simple. Because while you’re reading this post you are not drowning. But enough of absurd logic. The truth […]

Choose A Topic That Motivates YOU Before writing anything – Theme This is a great thing to take into account before you even place a single finger on top of a keyboard. The topic of the film if the spine of your project. It is what embodies your vision. It is that on which you […]

2 Great Things That Came Out From The Worst Failure Of Robert Rodríguez The Tim Ferris Show One of the great things of being on any types of media is that you get huge amount of exposure. Tim Ferriss the founder of The Tim Ferriss Show knows this and his guest Robert Rodru00edguez knows as […]

Why YOU Should Do A Low Budget Film And Why You’re More Likely To Finish It Spend all your money to become a filmmaker?! If you really decide to become an independent filmmaker, the best thing you could do is spend all the money you have in the bank, get in debt with all your […]

What Do We Want? We believe that in order to give a great service we need to be clear on who we are and what do we want. This post will try to answer that question. In short what we want is to offer great content in whatever form possible and that we find interesting […]

Why YOU should do what you DON’T LIKE What do viral video clips and filmmaking have in common? They both need an audience to exist. What this has to do with what you don’t like is that a lot of auteur filmmakers see other media and ways of expression as inferior or second class. Where […]

Start a YouTube Channel? Good or bad idea? Why is this post even in the distribution category? The answer is that a YouTube channel, you like it or not means exposure. And exposure means that if you really do it well, more people will watch your movie or short. So the true question if you […]

2 Reasons Why Storyboarding Will Make Your Life While Editing Easier You want to simplify as much as you can the editing process because what you want is, if you are an independent filmmaker, get your vision, your story cristal clear. For that the only way around it is work and planning. And how you […]

WHY BOTHER?! 4 Steps for all the PRE-production PAPERS that need to be done First things first, how much work does PRE-production take? Well, it depends. I know, I know, it is that shitty answer that doesn’t answer much. But I can tell you what is the exact work that has to be done and […]

4 KEY Tips for Scene Design Turning Point effects, Setup/Payoffs, Emotional Dynamics and Choice Scene design To understand how scenes are built, there are 4 main points that we have to go over: Turning points Setups/Payoffs Emotional Dynamics Choice These are the main principles inside a scene that a screenwriter should master according to Robert […]

Search for key words, FORGET THE REST Speed Reading Books – must reads! The above are must reads! In this post what will be discussed is the process through which you can devour books and texts through a speed reading technique that will change the way you read. The Speed Reading technique The technique consists […]

What Is The BUDGET of An IDEA? How much does a movie cost? Most people that have a notion of how much does a zombie’s film cost will probably tell you that you cannot produce a good zombie film if you don’t have at least 5 million in your pocket. And that might be true […]

Go ALL THE WAY With Camera Gear Should you or should you not change of camera gear during production? Most indie films take a lot of time get finished. They usually take more time than Hollywood movies to get made if they don’t have a specific budget of a number of millions. And this is […]

Storyboard EVERYTHING?! Should you or should you not storyboard everything you film? Some great filmmakers think that storyboarding is of not use and others plan everything and storyboard everything before shooting. Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Christopher Nolan all of them do storyboards for their films. Others, like […]

Location Scouting for Indie Film (How To Guide) As Robert McKee described in his book Story Structure, there 3 main types of story plots: archplots, miniplots and antiplots. Archplots, Miniplots and Antiplots Archplots belong to classical designed stories. Miniplots belong to minimalist stories. Antiplots belong to anti-structured stories. Classical design Most Hollywood films rely on […]