Category: Post-Production

  • What is a film distributor, and what are they looking for?

    Imagine spending four years of your life drilling for oil. After an egregious amount of work, you are left with thousands of barrels of crude oil. What do you do now? How do you refine this process to get gasoline? To end with a product that can actually take you somewhere? Have you ever heard of…

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  • Film School 101: The Shot list

    The first thing in film school 101 is the shot list. By Kelly Schwarze – Filmmaker and Author of “What Film Schools Don’t Tell You” Film school 101 and the camera shot list:  Consider a shot to be what a word is to a sentence. Sure, you can just randomly mash your hands upon a…

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  • How to make a movie starts with locations

    Filming Locations are Everything. By Kelly Schwarze – Filmmaker and Author of “What Film Schools Don’t Tell You” How to make a movie and the finding locations:  Setting is more than just a place on a map. It’s a tone, its the creation of a whole new world that your characters interact in, suffer in, watch…

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  • How to make a movie

    Knowing how to make a movie starts with the script breakdown. By Kelly Schwarze – Filmmaker and Author of “What Film Schools Don’t Tell You” How to make a movie and the art of the breakdown:  Ever wonder “how to make a movie?” Well, it’s not an easy thing to answer. Planning your first feature…

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  • Where to start as a filmmaker

    Where to start as a filmmaker can be overwhelming. The average indie filmmaker finds themselves wondering where to start. They often agonize over the resources that they lack. However, the key is to ignore all of that and start anyway.   When I first decided I wanted to be a filmmaker, I remember the challenges I had.…

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  • WHAT FILM SCHOOLS DON’T TELL YOU by Kelly Schwarze

    Film school is fantastic at teaching students how to use cameras and write screenplays… But they fail to teach people what types of movies to make, how to keep budgets low, and secure profitable distribution.  Each year, hundreds of people graduate film school wondering how they’ll make a living in the industry. Many students flush…

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