FILMMAKING STUFF Filmmaking Stuff provides resources for independent filmmakers. The website includes articles on how to take a story idea from script to screen, including articles on scriptwriting, producing, finance, shooting, editing, directing, marketing, distribution and how to build an audience. Filmmaking Stuff also has articles detailing how to make money making movies – including interviews with Hollywood Producers, Directors, writers and other filmmaking professionals.

Here are 5 Filmmaking 101 tips I’ve learned through the years:

1. Nobody will care about your project as much as you.
2. If you think it will take 1 year to get a movie made, plan for 2 years.
3. The script is key. A good script allows other elements to fall into place.
4. If you don’t know what you’re doing, find someone better and delegate!
5. Don’t forget to have fun. If you’re not having fun, you’re not in the game.

As long as you have the motivation and drive and a script you believe in, then you should put blinders on and go for it. After you get your first feature film in the can, you’ll wonder what took you so long! I know there is a lot more to filmmaking 101… The filmmaking 101 process can be complicated, but it doesn’t have to be. As they say, the way to make a movie is one task at at time!

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