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MONDAY MOTIVATION!: Balance · Indie Film Hustle® - A Filmmaking Podcast

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  It's a balance like anything in life. Life is a balance, everything's a
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  balance. If you're too technically inclined, you have no idea how to tell
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  a story. Guess what, You're gonna have pretty pictures, but no one's
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  gonna give it. Sometimes the storytelling is so powerful, but it looks like
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  crap and sounds like crap. No one's gonna give you. You know,
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  it's gonna be harder to find the voice when you find and marry the men.
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  The magic of both being technically proficient and being able to tell a good
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  story and combine those, that's when magic happens. You have to learn both,
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  not just one or the other. Just because you have a camera and
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  an editing system at home doesn't make you a filmmaker and make shoot someone who
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  could shoot a movie and edit it together. But can you pull emotions out
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  of it? Can you tell a story? Are people enthralled with what you're
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  trying to say your story? Are they laughing? Are they crying? Where
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  you want them? To learn your craft? There's plenty of books out there's
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  a lot of DVDs out there that can show you and teach you about storytelling
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  and about structure and about how to write a screenplay, how to do it
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  properly, you know, and don't write it in word for God's sakes,
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  you know, write it in final draft or moving you know, screenplay,
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  you know, do what you you know if you're going to present it to
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  a professional world. I mean, learn these little details that are going to
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  give you then image of being a real filmmaker and a real storyteller. You
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  know, at the end of the day, that's what you guys are storytellers.
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  So you have to learn to balance every aspect of the filmmaking process in
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  order to tell really powerful stories that will live on after you're God. And
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  that is I think the definition of a real director and a real storyteller.