Filmmaking Success Mindset
Getting your filmmaking work noticed requires persistence, tenacity, and an unyielding ability to overcome obstacles and keep going, even when doing so seems …
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Film Producing Career – How To Create A Vision For Success
If you’re looking to grow a successful film producing career, I can tell you that visualization is essential. I’ve used visualization to achieve …
How To Find A Film Industry Mentor
Finding a movie industry mentor can be invaluable to your filmmaking success. This week, we will focus on how to find a mentor.
How NOT To Get Your Screenplay Read (For Smart Screenwriters)
A few years back I had the first draft of my first screenplay ever. Like a lot of folks who dream of Hollywood success, I was eager to share my work with the world. Problem was, I had no idea what I was doing. Through a friend of a friend, I was put in contact with an “entertainment attorney.”
How To Survive The Movie Business
Surviving the Movie Industry in times of change is similar to surviving other industries going through change. Necessitated by the need for cash (survival), many of you will be forced to see the world as an entrepreneur. Even if you aren’t ready, you may have to learn how to produce your own profitable movies…
How To Make Your First Feature Without Going Bonkers
Sooner or later the filmmaking bug hits you. . . It’s like a far off voice or compulsion. But like breathing, for the serious independent filmmaker, the need to make a feature is always present.
Five Ways To Succeed As a Modern Filmmaker
The world has changed. If you are looking to become a filmmaking success, this article is for you. We share 5 ways you can succeed as a modern filmmaker.
How To Use Foreshadowing In Your Screenplay
To avoid having any one element of foreshadowing be too obvious, often the writer will throw in some red herrings–some things that could be foreshadowing but in fact don’t pay off or pay off in a different way than we expect. The person who has the gun in the drawer may become an immediate suspect in our minds, but later maybe we see him use it to light his cigarette and we realize it’s not a real gun (of course he may have a real one somewhere else….). That kind of misdirection keeps the audience guessing.
How To Deal With Film Festival Rejection Without Crying
The 2009 Sundance Film Festival is just days away. And as such, it’s the time of year filmmakers start thinking about their own projects.
The Price of Hollywood
Filmmaking in Hollywood is a tough career. What price will you pay to become successful in Hollywood?
Pick Your Peers And Level Up Your Filmmaking
If you want to level up your filmmaking career, you need to pick your peers wisely. I’m speaking from experience when I tell …
Secrets of Successful Indie Filmmakers: Don’t Give Up
In this filmmaking article, Jason Brubaker shares the secrets of successful indie filmmakers. And the first secret is, don’t give up.