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 […]

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 […]