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MONDAY MOTIVATION!: Tell Your Story · Indie Film Hustle® - A Filmmaking Podcast

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  You really need to know what the cameraman's doing. You really need to know
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  what the editor is going to do in post, what the costume people are
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  doing, what the makeup people do. You really need to understand their jobs,
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  specifically the technical jobs, because if you're If you don't, you're leaving
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  yourself open for someone to take advantage of you, or not getting exactly what
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  you want because you can't express that that information clearly to your key people.
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  I think as a director, being an editor first and then becoming a director
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  has been very beneficial to me because when I'm on set, I shoot to
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  edit, so I'm very very economical with my shooting ratio, and I'm editing
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  it on set in my head, so i know exactly what I'm going to
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  use the one I'm not going to use in post. I think today it's
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  very beneficial for a director to edit and to learn how to edit and learn
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  how to tell that story and craft that story. I think that you know
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  a lot of directors just think, oh, I watch movies, so because
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  I watch a movie, I can go make one. And it's not that
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  easy. And I'm not trying to discourage you about it, but there's a
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  craft behind making a film. There's a craft behind telling a story. You
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  know, the good storytellers, at the end of the day, they have
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  to do storytellers. You know, just because I listen to music doesn't mean
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  I'm gonna go down and syne for me tomorrow. You know, it's it's
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  not It's very difficult, and you really need to learn your craft. I'm
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  not saying it. Don't go out there and shoot. Go out there and
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  shoot. Learn. The technology is so cheap. You can make us a
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  short firm a week and you can constantly learn and edit yourself at home,
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  and you can learn what works and what doesn't work, and show it to
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  an audience and see how they react and things like that. I like to
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  surround myself and work with people that I can push, and I like people
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  that can push me as an artist, as a professional, and you know,
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  working with professionals that are more experienced than you in certain areas makes you
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  raise your game. That's the only way you grow. You know, a
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  lot of times people stay stagnant because they're the biggest fish in the room.
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  My advice to anybody who wants to do Fromica, you just gotta do it.
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  You gotta learn. Learn the craft, learn the tools, learn as
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  much as you can about everything you can, and then go tell your stories.
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  And don't just learn the technical stuff. Learn how to structure a story,
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  Learn how to tell a proper story.