Category Archives: Blog entry After managing and/or running two successful Kickstarter campaigns back to back, I learned some lessons the hard way, and was delightfully intrigued by other quirks. I’d like to share some of my newest lessons learned. Lesson #1 – Get to know the 5 backers you’ll meet on Kickstarter. 1) Family/Close Friends with disposable income –...  I had a very atypical sort of Kickstarter campaign. I tried to sell a book to fund a movie. My ultimate goal was to raise $1,500 to pay for a 5.1 surround sound mix for the film I’ve been working on for the last 4 years. I couldn’t do an outright “pre-sale” of the film... Lately I’ve been learning that spending too much time in post has a few detrimental side-effects. Unless you have created something short and sweet and airtight, you’re going to start noticing flaws in your feature the more you look at it because you have to look at it for a long time. The irony of... If this doesn’t inspire you as a filmmaker, I don’t know what will. I made it to the theater 33 times this year and saw 30 different films. Last year it was 26/23 films. As with last year, I’ll give my mini-reviews.  I’ll occasionally do interviews for interested parties on filmmaking, usually on Greyscale or Leave Me… and until August 21st, nobody outside of the close cast/crew had seen the film in its entirety. But today an article was published on me and Greyscale by someone that had actually seen the film… granted, it was the 98%... |
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