Monthly Archives: October 2010

27. (the age, not the TLiMono)

I’ve survived to the age of 27!  I’m at image lock with Greyscale (which means it can’t be edited any further), and the visual effects, sound design, and soundtrack are almost complete.  When I turned 26 I was at image lock with Greyscale… 25, we were about 12 outings into what would be eventually 66 days...

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42. Get the local community involved as much as possible.

Unless you have tons of money for marketing, consider your hometown where you produced the film as your base of operations for a grassroots marketing effort.  The more people that get involved in one way or another, they more ownership they have over it and thus the more excited they’ll get about it (NOTE: don’t...

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41. Sometimes viral ideas should wait until you are fully prepared to work at the level of the main production.

This is one of those lessons learned the hard way… We shot a 4 part web-series for Greyscale that helps fill in a small segment of the film’s timeline to try to drum up excitement… …we got a little ahead of ourselves. We had just gotten our lenses, are were more interested in how those...

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40. If someone opens their house to you for filming for free, do something nice for them in return.

Anywhere from $25-$100 in restaurant gift cards should suffice. There are so many elements that go into making a good film, and when almost all of the elements are hitting but a few are missing, something feels off… Not having the right locations is a quick and easy way to make a film feel ‘off.’ ...

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39. Don’t be afraid to trade favors to get locations.

Shooting a web promo for a company takes a day. Having the perfect location (their warehouse) in your movie lasts forever.  The right location adds so much to a film… plus, if you’ve shot something at their location already, you’ll know all the good areas and the pitfalls that some of the rooms might have...

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