Indie filmmaker don't shoot yourself in the foot by investing your time and energy into a movie script you cannot afford to make. It's tough enough going from movie script to finished movie at the true independent level without making it even tougher. GUNSHOT! Another aspiring indie filmmaker just shot themselves in the foot. Add another indie movie script to the countless thousands that will never get made. Before reading on we need to break in to different camps.
Aspiring indie filmmaker don't shoot yourself in the foot by investing your time and energy into a movie script you cannot afford to make. It's tough enough going from movie script to finished movie at the true independent level without making it even tougher. GUNSHOT! Another aspiring indie filmmaker just shot themselves in the foot. Add another indie movie script to the countless thousands that will never get made.
Don't follow other aspiring filmmakers down that path to nowhere. Unless you're being paid to write movie scripts regardless if they're made or not. If you're not being paid to write movies and need to write a movie script you can make yourself then keep reading. Working with writer-director Sid Kali on two indie movies has taught me the importance of looking at what you have before wasting time with what you don't have.
With Hollywood or studios they start with a finished movie script then think how much it will cost to make. You will fail following that way of thinking. Aspiring filmmakers need to ask themselves one major question. How much money do I have right now in hand to make a movie before I write a script? Make a list of your resources. What cars can you use? What locations can you use? Do you know anyone with video equipment? After you're done contact every person on your list about your movie to what's real and what's talk.
After cutting though all BS you will have a solid idea of what you have to work with across the board. Then and only then should you start working on your movie script. It's a waste of time to write a movie script about the wild west when you live in downtown NY unless you got deep pockets. Really deep pockets. Now if you're a indie filmmaker with connections to horses, farms, and modern day cowboys you could realistically write a movie script that could be made.
The point I want to drive home from working on movies is this. You're way better off writing a movie script you can make than being a indie poser that never makes a movie. Filmmaker Sid Kali broke it down for me. This is my own spin on it, because that's what I do. Start backwards. Don't think about writing a movie script until you know how much money you have to make a movie. You'll feel way better writing a movie script you can really make than being a self-proclaimed filmmaker that has nothing to show. There is no reason you can't write movie scripts that need million dollar budgets to make. Just keep in mind how few people make their living as members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA). Your best shot to launch your career is to write a movie script you can make. Maybe you get distributed by Americana VOD
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