Journaling the victories and stumbles of creating stories.
Don't over extend yourself financially when you make your film. Case in point, when I decided to make my short film 2 AM I wanted to make it for $12,500. That number is relative depending on your socio-economic background (for me it's high AF). I was talking to an executive of a film festival and …
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Kelly Askam (sound mix), Natalie Reinholtz (director of photography) Cody Healy (gaffer)photo Sabrina Alexander It's been a while since I posted so I wanted to talk about what I've learned since wrapping on our shoot. I have to talk to my team about what's going on. I ran into an issue with renting equipment. It …
Who's going to watch my film, that's the question I had when fumbling around with Facebook ads or boost or whatever the hell it's called. After running a small marketing campaign I realized I could add specific movies to the audience makeup. Then it hit me, my audience is me, plus or minus about five …
We launched our crowdfunding yesterday for my film 2 AM and even though we didn't get a huge sum on the first day I'm excited that we will make our goal. I know a lot of people that want us to succeed because they know how important this film is. I want to show people …
Marketing guru Seth Godin talks about this in his book Linchpin. Shipping really means getting your work out there. As an artist, it can be nerve-racking to think about putting work out because we fear the response. That hasn't gone away for me but I know it's a part of the process. So tomorrow at …
No matter how turbulent the ocean is at its surface, if you go deep there's a peaceful stillness there that isn't disturbed. That's what meditation is to me.
