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Dealing With Investors Part 3 It’s been a while, and I do apologize. We kind of got kicked in the teeth while we were down, which threw everything through a ringer… temporarily anyways lol. But we’re back, with some money finally in the bank, and pre-pro is in full tilt boogie! So here’s...

Sams Club and Costco are a massive help for feeding cast/crew on any budget. I highly recommend getting a membership to at least one of them. You're feeding in bulk, so why not buy in bulk? Also, as I have learned from my wife who is a massive coupon fiend, you can save an incredible amount...

Dealing With Investors Part 2 So as quickly as money can come, it can go. Our L.A. investor/producer got a hold of me last week to let me know that she unfortunately had to back out. She is already involved with two of her own projects out in CA, and simply cannot devote the time to The...

Hiring Crew I’ve worked on lots of different projects over the years, and there are two things I’ve learned without a doubt to this point: Your friends will always want to be a part of your projects because what you do IS cool. Finding truly talented crew takes time. Since getting our budget...

Thanks, and I definitely will! :yes:

Creative Decisions (That Cost A Lot Of Money) Part 1 This will be another one of those post headings that there will be more than one of. If you’ve read everything up to this point you’ll probably remember that I’ve mentioned the guys over at Seamlessound and that I want the house location...

Finding And Meeting With Investors This can be difficult and nerve-wracking, to say the least. I will say without any hesitation that finding investors is far more difficult than actually meeting with them. For “The Unknown”, I knew fairly early on that this was not going to be a project I...

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I know, but apparently it happens quite often out there. From what I've been told (and which explains a lot actually) is that people just write a first draft of something that they show a few friends and then try to sell it or sell the distribution rights to make it into a film. Craziness.

My Way Or The Hollywood Way? (Part 1) Today I’ve got some meetings, so this will probably be my only post. Throughout the progress of “The Unknown” so far, there have been those colleagues and friends who have insisted I’m doing things “the wrong way.” So this will be the first of a few posts...

Thanks :) I actually know that it was because of the campaign that they contacted me/found out about the project, so because of that fact alone I look at the campaign as a massive win. Yes, it totally failed to get the funds itself, but it absolutely was integral to us getting the $400k we...

Writing A Budget (That’s Both Realistic & Allows Some Wiggle Room) This is another one of those “there’s no right or wrong way to do it” things. Using the basic, broad budget that we made for the Business Plan as our base, we then started to really get detailed as to what each category...

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Writing A Business Plan (That Actually Works) This is going to be a long one, so bare with me. There are a TON of sites online that talk about writing a business plan, specifically writing one for a film. Some offer free advice (well, a FEW), and some offer paid advice or forms they say to...

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Dedicated production thread: http://www.indietalk.com/showthread.php?t=38500 :)

Crowdfunding This will be short and sweet. Obviously we were unsuccessful in our campaign in terms of it raising the funds we needed/wanted. BUT it did gain us the attention of every one of our investors, which is a very good thing! I’m the first to admit, I’m not a marketing guy. My...

Shooting The Proof-Of-Concept Trailer This was a headache. Because we had no budget, and had to work around everyone’s schedules, we ended up having to shoot this in a total of 12 hours, over the course of five days between September and October 2011. I had written a custom script for us to...

Casting After finishing the fourth draft of the script, I started really thinking about what sort of budget I would need, and decided on $100,000. At that point (May 2011) my thought process was that I could shoot the film on a Canon 5D mark II, and that would save me tons of money. But where...

Writing The Script I had written three feature scripts before I wrote “The Unknown.” Each one was, in my humble opinion, better than the last. I usually write two or three drafts before anyone outside of my wife ever reads them, because I tend to make a lot of changes to my first draft once...