It's a wonder films even get made

[Andrew Luczenczyn]

Every time I think Ill never be able to so something, I watch Baghead.

 

[Joe G.]

George - you're pure evil.

As for indies failing, let's examine one facet.

Bob said: "I start production on a low budget indie movie Monday..."

He never told us the name of the movie. No website. No way for us to learn anything further about this. You cut off your potential viewers from even being able to watch this thing some day.

You had our attention, but you failed to deliver (a movie!).

Marketing indies has to begin before production, and by a long shot. It's the new way.

 

[Rick Burnett]

Marketing indies has to begin before production, and by a long shot. It's the new way.

I cannot stress this enough. I took a production roll on an indy film we are working on, called Beat Down Boogie. We are just now starting up the marketing and viral work (website coming shortly) after being tired of spending a year looking for investment.

My two favorite investor statements "We think you need to write the movie to be more like movie A because it did great at the box office"

or

"No, we aren't interested in Female lead roles, those don't sell"

A lot of investors are very shy right now. That said, here's our practice footage we shot with a HVX200. We plan on shooting this with the Scarlet fixed so the delay in starting production is not a bad thing.

http://vimeo.com/2616087

I will give this advice though, I work with a VERY TIGHT NIT group of people. We do a lot of projects together and everyone is multi-talented. I spent a lot of time getting to know people in the area and now I never worry about flaky crew. As for cast, I know so many people now I tend to get people that are pretty dependable, but I also would use a local casting company outside of that.

I cannot count the number of people I don't work with because they are all talk, no action. But, it's like that in all artistic fields (I do music as well and musician's and engineers are no better!)