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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNufijIDD-Q Types of ideas in the creative process One of the […]

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! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Uo2Upq7Dt8 To sum up, Potato Jet says that particularly in Hollywood you’ll […]

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? 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 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 […]