SPEED Reading: WHAT Is It? MYTHS of Speed Reading Speed reading should be something that every one who needs to read voraciously because of their job should use. This is a multidisciplinary technique that can be used by filmmakers and non-filmmakers to boost the number the books they read a year, the number of books […]

How NOT to make a LOW BUDGET Stinky FILM How not to fuck up a film? For this, first we need to get clear on a couple of points: What is a stinky film? What stinky films have in common? How can I avoid making a stinky film? So let’s begin by saying that I’ll […]

WORK While You’re ASLEEP Sleep! We humans need to sleep. Period. There is no way around that. Haven’t you had the necessity in the morning to start right away with work? Work while you sleep Well, there is a way to program your brain so it works while you’re asleep. It doesn’t mean either that […]

How To Do Meditation For Filmmaking Meditation it’s a practice that is becoming more and more popular. Nevertheless, it is something that some people frown upon in disbelief. The reason why this happens is that most likely they haven’t tried it or they have but they have stopped before it gets near interesting. And that […]

Why DREAMS Are So Important?! Dreams are the purest form of fantasy. Although they resemble a lot to reality, they are nevertheless fictitious. Dreams are important for filmmakers? Dreams are the gate to a different world that shares so much with this world that sometimes it is really hard to spot the difference between a […]

What Do We Stand For? We think that in order to make incredible things, we need to agree on some general values and principles that guide us in a certain direction. And in the end it is about a group of people that have certain beliefs that they share and that try to put something […]

Why Make A Split Rights Deal? What is a split rights deal? First things first. A split rights deal is a deal where you will sell your movie’s rights to a distributor or distribution company in exchange for distribution. Sounds pretty simple, right? But why would anyone would want to sell the rights of his […]

How to Start Editing Like a PRO To start an edit like a pro, first you must to acknowledge that real PROS do have a method when they go around an edit but it is not a formula. This means that the method that an editor may use may not always work. That is the […]

Why Excel For Organizing Your Shoot Having a visual representation of what you have already shot and of what is yet to shoot, comes super handy when you are in the pre-production stage. As well, studies have shown that having a to-do-list helps you to boost your productivity, organize your ideas, ease planning, keep track […]

How To Start A Screenplay First things first – Screenplay format The first thing you need to do to make your life way easier is to download a word preset or a screenplay software where you are 100% sure that you will be writing in a format that is accepted by the industry. It is […]

How To Start Research How to get around research? Research can be very daunting or very encouraging in the beginning, it depends on one’s personality. Some people find the task huge and others find in it an excuse for not writing. The first ones do not even start to do research and write dull stories […]

How To Organize An Edit You finished shooting and have started editing So you have already stored and organized your footage in folders in a external hard drive and you are about to begin your edit. What should you do? Should you import everything into a Premiere project or edit by chunks and in the […]

How To Use What You Have This is a big question that involves many factors and circumstances. There are a few principles you can follow to create with what you have. Because that is the true key of using what you have; creating from the starting point of what you have. I hope that doesn’t […]

How To Create Original Ideas Why meditation? This clearly is a personal opinion but nevertheless I find meditation quite interesting for coming up with original ideas. It is quite useful to find whatever methods suits you that encourages the search of truly original ideas so as not to fall in the same stereotypes that genre […]

How long does the production stage take? The only reasonable answer to this matter is that it varies from production to production. BUT, There are certain key principles you can apply and that will make your life much easier during production. TIME… DON’T STRESS ABOUT IT, PREPARE FOR IT If you are doing a story […]