Store Those Dailies DAILY?
Store Those Dailies DAILY?! Imagine you have finished your day of shooting, should you store and organize your footage right away? Almost everything of the process of filmmaking is up to the person doing the job really, BUT Let’s not be fools and analyze if this is a good habit or not. CONS: Time spent […]
How to make Scene Brakdown Sheets
How To Make Script Breakdown Sheets? (2 STEPS) STEP 1: UNDERLINE First you spot in your screenplay the following elements and circle or underline them with their specific colour. Here is a table for reference: Your Preproduction Script should look more or less like this: STEP 2: FILL IN THE GAPS! What is a script […]
Script: PRINCIPLES Not Rules
Script: PRINCIPLES, Not Rules In screenplay there are NO rules Rules say: “things that have to be done a certain way”. Meanwhile principles make reference to what works and has worked for as long as one can remember. The difference is crucial. In screenplay, there are no rules, there only exist certain principles that by […]
How To Do Research?
How To Do Research? My personal approach What I personally do when it comes to research is to almost obsessively focus on a theme or a subject that I find really interesting. It is a process that accompanies me along the creative process and progressively fades away as I am deep inside the story. It […]
3 KEY No Budget Filmmaking Principles
3 Key No Budget Filmmaking Principles Behind the Scenes of “Breathless” by Jean-Luc Godard 1. USE WHAT YOU HAVE Do you need the latest RED EPIC 6k, 8k, 10k camera? NO. So get yourself into the discipline of getting your ideas on paper, then translate them into a preproduction plan and then shoot your film. […]
Catch Ideas Like Fish!
Catch Ideas Like Fish! David Lynch You don’t create ideas, you catch them. There is a really interesting talk by director David Lynch on his creative process that involves meditation, catching ideas and his creative process behind making a film. Here is the link: Types of ideas in the creative process One of the great […]
Work With Who You Trust
Work With Who YOU Trust I can’t stress this point enough. Working with who you trust is EVERYTHING. Potato Jet Confesses Potato Jet a YouTuber discusses this topic as well in his YouTube channel and his experience in Hollywood for over 10 years! To sum up, Potato Jet says that particularly in Hollywood you’ll find […]
Which Means Of Distribution? (Really)
Which Means Of Distribution? (Really) What is the meaning of filming distribution? Film distribution is all about getting your film to an audience. The definition is quite simple but the practice not so much. The truth is that for the sake of a distributor maintaining his position, distribution companies have to face difficult challenges that […]
Who Are We?
Who Are We? We are basically a bunch of young people like these trying to find our way into the industry: We are young but we think that that isn’t an excuse or a wall that stops us from achieving something greater than ourselves. We’re kind of optimistic. But not optimistic in the sense of […]
It’s A Marathon Not A Sprint
It’s A Marathon Not A Sprint There is a movie that talks about the SAME topic as this post: “Hustlers”, staring Paul Newman and George C. Scott. Great movie: an all times classic. What’s the Hustler’s story about? The story is quite simple really. There is a hustler Eddie Felson, Paul Newman, that plays pool […]
Keep Your Head Above The TSUNAMI When You Know You’re Gonna Drown
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
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
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 Are More Likely To Finish It
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?
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
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?
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
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 PRE-Production PAPERS
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 […]
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