How To Produce Movies

After a 2 week hiatus, we return to discuss the connection between career and synchronicity, as recent learnings have had unexpected repercussions that seem oddly aligned in their timing.

I am doing technical work on HowToProduceMovies.com and will not be putting out a show this week (and maybe next week depending on how things go with the tech stuff). Be back soon!

In this episode I talk about The Civil War documentary series by Ken Burns and break it down to show 6 ways to improve your documentary filmmaking so that the material you are presenting is clear to the audience and keeps them enthralled by your movie.

Today I talk about my favorite Android Movie Editor like iMovie which I have been using since 2014. Even if you only need a video editing app for YouTube, you will find that this Android app will offer you a lot of features that will make your videos look gorgeous, even with the free version. There is a Premium version with some pretty awesome perks, too.

I recently watched a sketch from The Ben Stiller Show to post with a previous podcast and got drawn into watching the whole brilliant single (award winning) season of The Ben Stiller Show. After I got through most of it I realized how many sketches could have been shot today, even under the restrictions of the pandemic, and decided to share that awareness on this podcast episode with the intention of helping fellow filmmakers get creative with how to shoot the movie ideas they are having right now, even if they think they do not have access to the locations they need.

There is an ebb and flow to money that comes in as a freelancer or gig workers and it really can be challenging deciding when to purchase thing that are needed for business or for life and how to manage the money coming in. In this episode we discuss some techniques to manage the erratic income and outflow of money as a freelance filmmaker.

TRIPOD DRAMA! Today's podcast discusses the importance of having a good Tripod and the drama that can ensue when your tripod fails at the wrong time, as it did one time when Leslie was shooting footage for a client. Born out of that experience was the strong realization of why some key pieces of film and video equipment (like tripods) should be a top priority for filmmakers and videographers, and she shares 7 of those revelations on this podcast.

During the pandemic and all of this home time, it makes sense to shift focus to screenwriting. In this episode, we will talk about generating ideas and expanding creative thinking and creative writing while staying home.

Sometimes opportunities come at the wrong time. Have you been offered a great opportunity during the pandemic? Did you take it? Was it worth it? Today's podcast it a discussion about whether it is worth it to move forward with opportunities if they put your health at risk.

Sometimes we are drawn to certain actors and we cannot explain why. In this podcast, I answer a question that I received from one of my students. She was asked, "Who is your favorite actor is and why?" and she she was required to answer from an academic point of view. She found that question challenging to answer in an analytical way, so I decided it would make a good topic for this episode (because it often is a difficult question to answer in an analytical way).