Feel It Real Films

AHHHHHHHHHHHH! YEAAAAAAAHHHHH! Business Plans in the hizzle, yo!

Sounds completely dud, right? Yarp.

Reality is, though, I’m digging it. If it was for a new case of dongled-whatsis-burgles then I might have a problem putting the time and energy into it. But when it’s for something you love (BAH) then it actually can be just as helpful to you as to potential investors.

You clarify your vision. You also take a very honest assessment of where you are, creatively, financially and organizationally. It’s like a colonoscopy of your project. (Though the smell isn’t quite as bad.)

So if you’re out there working on putting your film together (or any business project for that matter) your business plan really helps to legitimize things for yourself and for others.

Don’t outsource this either. Put it together yourself. You can hire out research and market testing, but write it up yourself. Your the one with the vision, right? You should know it all in and out. You’re doing the pitching. You need to have all the answers.

So after you’ve found your script, make this next step in the process of making your film, even if your budget is $10k.  It’ll help you to see what’s the most powerful and important aspect to your project as a whole, not just a story.

Woo-woo!

So you trip. So you fall. So you crack your head on the cobblestone. Stuff happens, right?

Pretty much all of those bricks are in your head, though. I’m seeing that as I’m doing the storyboards. I’m using Storyboard Quick (very cool tool (I should probably link this with an affiliate link, but I’m too lazy) to use for it) for the storyboards and I keep finding myself working harder than I need to to create the shots.

I’ve already got pics from most of the places we’ll be shooting so that’s real easy. It’s the creativity of those shots that’s daunting.

There are only 15 locations in the whole movie. If you know anything about making movies, that’s ridiculous. Especially when 1/2 of the movie is a medieval adventure.

So I have to get outside the box and somehow make the few sets, very dynamic. And I will.

I guess that’s where the skill and art of filmmaking come from. Especially independent filmmaking. You’ve got to make it all stretch.

King Devlin to the rescue!