Who here works with a filmmaking partner?

MichaelPaul

MichaelPaul

Curious, how many folks on the board are lone wolf's pulling together a rag tag team of friends, actors and crew on their own to make a movie and how many have a partner or small team that they regularly work with? Whether it be a Producer/Director relationship, Co-Writer, Co-Director etc.

Personally I make films with my wife. Prior to her I did my best to pull together friends to help me put something together but they were always very small projects. I wasn't able to do a feature till I had her and her organizational skills, plus it helps spread the stress. When one of us is exhausted, the other one picks up the slack.

Curious how other people balance team and partnership relationships.
 
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I started a film organization and a few of the shorts won awards. Also, helped with other projects, but couldn't get people interested in projects I wanted to do. This year just decided to do some things on my own.
 
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Started out a bit of a lone wolf and quickly found advancement to be an unapproachable challenge if I was spreading myself thin on every portion of a shoot, never giving any one part the attention it truly deserved... so *very* early on, I approached a friend of mine who was a theatre sort and we've been working together for ~10 years at this. We're up to a crew of about 30-40 folks with separate departments and departmental heads that take charge of each of the different elements of this most collaborative of all the mixed media forms.

If you consider yourself to be working alone, you're shooting motion photography (perhaps brilliantly), but as soon as you add a human subject, you're collaborating with them and have a partner. The partners may change, but this craft relies on collaboration -- embrace it... come over to the dark side ;)
 
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I was a "lone wolf" on my first.

My second, which starts shooting tomorrow, I have a pretty solid team. I think it helps a lot to have a few specialists. My DP has a solid reel and has no interest in being a director (which is rare among DPs). My sound guy is an up-and-comer who just loves sound design and sound tech and loves working on projects, small and big. I also got, IDK what he falls under, but a guy who just helps me with everything. He helped me hold auditions, make casting decisions, schedules, logistics, etc. He doesn't come to shoots but everything up until a shoot, I know I've got his help. He also, just loves being part of a film, at any position.

I still lead them and have the only creative control, but surrounding yourselves with people who are passionate about their specialties is priceless.
 
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Scoop I know what you're talking about. My wife can get pretty scary on camera too. :) It's nice to have an actor you can rely on.

I was a lone wolf when I started. I had a small group of friends that would work with me, but ultimately I was the only one that wanted to make films, which meant I was the instigator, the one behind the camera, and the one who was still working on it after everyone else went home. Years later I started making films with my wife and it's definitely upped the scale of my productions. It's nice to have someone live and breath the project with you.

That said it's harder to convince your spouse you're a genius and she should just agree with you. :lol:
 
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