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 […]

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 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 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? 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 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! 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 […]