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My Secret Weapon for Directing Actors (opens the original)
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Since I started as an actor in this business I have a decent familiarity with most of the major different curriculums of study available for actors. That’s my “secret weapon.” I can communicate with actors in the discipline they have learned.If you don’t have that, I would suggest that you at least take one acting class to familiarize yourself with what it takes to embody another character, to create the emotional vulnerability it takes to do so in front of other people, often strangers, and oft
The Two Most Important Questions An Indie Filmmaker Needs to Ask (opens the original)
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Indecision Costs (opens the original)
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My Best Tips for Marketing Your Film (opens the original)
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Ilearned this a looooong time ago from a marketing expert — there will always, and I mean ALWAYS, be something about your project that will be ‘hooky’ or interesting that you can use as a ‘hook’ to “reel people in.” You just have to find it.Example: on my last film, Discovering Ella (a film about how the incomparable Ella Fitzgerald was discovered by Chick Webb) I sent out my emails to all the media people where the film was going to screen with the subject line: A Legend Comes to [Insert Town H
Don’t Be Afraid to Ask (opens the original)
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