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« on: February 14, 2007, 12:49:15 AM »

Hello everyone,

I currently work as a database programmer.  I have just read through Michael's book and now have learned that this job is a great stepping stone in my life.  Thank you Michael for that amoung many other great things in your book by the way.  I am really enjoying my job much more now that I have learned that I can be happy doing it and still be excited about new things to come!  With that I have kept making a living as the programmer, but I have also been surging forward with my Wow!  I am, on my free time, a short film producer.  I have produced 3 short films, and want to film my first feature film.  I don't have the cash to make a feature film though and finding the people to fund it is sort of a big wall for me.  I am not really sure where to turn for this.  I am in the filmmaking industry, but I don't have the clout yet to talk to the big guys.  Also, I haven't made a full length film yet so that also removes me from being able to talk to the typical film distributors/studios.  I probably don't want to have them fund my movie anyway.  Probably wouldn't turn out as good.  Smiley

What are some things that I could work on to find say a million dollars to fund my picture?  It's a good movie - it really is, Smiley
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« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2007, 04:54:50 AM »

“I don't have the clout yet to talk to the big guys”

What would you need to “be” “have” “do” and feel to have the clout?
What is clout specifically?
How do you know you don’t have the clout?
What would you do, if you found out that you did if fact have clout?
Where can I buy clout from? Does it come in different sizes?

Big guys

How Big 12 feet tall? How many of them? Who specifically? 
If you kicked the big guys in the nuts would they fall to their knees?
Who do you know that could point you in the right direction?


Now even though they are a few silly questions in that lot, they service a purpose.

I assume that you are not the only person that as a good film in the making, now what you have to consider, is this if you film is really good, then it will make money, so the fund givers will consider any half descent, film as it will make money.

Now something that you might consider and this is really crazy, create a trailer for your film, and place it on your website, also go to you tube etc, and place it up there, now have a little intro saying something like, what to help make real move, what your name and business to be in the in the thank you montage animation. Individuals $50 small business $250-500 corporations $1500 or what ever amounts, would work. Then get the mini trailer link everywhere you can think about. MTV and all the day time TV shoes just go to the web sites, and send them a copy of the trailer link.

State that you are aiming for a little over million.

And see what happens.

Well as you seem to think you idea is far out, I thought I would see if I could reach the same level of faroutness.

Jay
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« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2007, 04:29:49 PM »

Hey Jay!

thanks for answering.  I know those questions seem silly but I can see where they can help bring things more out into the open.  I'll answer them below  Smiley


What would you need to “be” “have” “do” and feel to have the clout?
I would need to make a full length feature film with my own money and have IT make money therefore proving myself as a contender and a worthwhile investment

What is clout specifically?
Clout in my mind is having the ability to call up say... Jack Canfield or Marc Allen or someone like that and have them say "Hey Adam, yeah, I'd love to hear your idea as I know you have good ideas."

How do you know you don’t have the clout?
I currently feel that I don't have the clout because I have only made two short films and if a big time movie producer looked at them they would probably say "That's kids stuff.  You don't have the background yet to be in the big time."

What would you do, if you found out that you did if fact have clout?
I would call up someone who knows investors and ask them to pitch my idea for my film to them.  Or, I would go directly to an investor and ask for funding.

Where can I buy clout from? Does it come in different sizes?
Hmmm....  yes, I could buy clout, but I don't have enough money to buy it.  I currently need to earn it I think.  Different sizes - yes I'm sure it does.  Some people, such as Oprah, could say two words and something has funding while others with not as much clout may have to make a few more calls than that.

Big guys

How Big 12 feet tall? How many of them? Who specifically?
Now that you mention it, I see them as pudgy (using the wonderful wording of Stuart Wilde) and wearing black suits.  They sit in their offices with no faces behind a desk and say no to every original (read: risky) idea that comes to them.  That's how I picture the big guys.

If you kicked the big guys in the nuts would they fall to their knees?
Yeah they would fall.  I'm a black belt and a pretty tough dude in my own right.  Yeah, they would fall  Grin

Who do you know that could point you in the right direction?
There is one person who speaks like he has quite a bit of equity and he speaks about people in the filmmaking industry like he knows them.  However I have asked for his assitance but have gotten no replies.

Regarding your idea about creating a trailer for the film:  I'm having a hard time thinking about how to create that. There are some remote locations that I would need to make it.  It's not impossible in my mind though.  Plus having something to show possible funders would be better than me just asking for money with nothing more than a script.

I have asked the advice of a friend of mine that lives in LA.  He told me to basically grow up.  He said that the film industry is really an awful place that shoots down inexperienced people.  This has brought me to a new way of thinking however.  I like how Marc Allen says to do things in an easy and relaxed manner.  That's how I want to do things as well.  Which is why I want to find an executive producer that can go out for me and find the money for my project that we both believe in.
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« Reply #3 on: February 14, 2007, 05:55:25 PM »

Hi

Quick note this in a functional installation. Enjoy. Read it 3 times.


Ok well you have a few mental codes, that need to be, organized in a more functional way, and I will, pop them out in a different post, now you know what you want, so what you have to do is ask your self, where I am today in relation to the main goal. Do I have a profile/portfolio that I can present to people, as you have a already made a few short films, have you made an effort to get people to see them, people in the film business and people in general? If people know your work, then it starts to build credibility, so maybe you need to submit your short films to short film festivals, to get your name out in to the public.

I as you have been a journey the one I have in mind, is the one that you took to go from a white belt to a Black belt, now I am guessing that you have a memory of what is was like when you first started? And now that you can go through the motions in a flow that allows and gives you a personal confidence in your abilities, so as you can tap into that confidence of owning your mind-body, you know that you need to do some things.

First thing you have done, you know what you want, now lets just say it’s sometime in the future, (think of a realistic time frame to have this done) and you have created and produced your film and it is  successful in everyway that you need it to be successful for you.

Now in your imagination, run through in as much detail as you can that lead to the step before the one your at in that time, all the way back to this moment, now you need to consider having 3 different ways to getting the outcome.

And as you run through this and that, take this personal confidence that you developed while you was going from a while all the way up to being a black belt, now you will have to do something’s you will need to get a profile to show people, you will need to get to meet and talk with people and as you add all these ideas, to being able to get outside, of what you did not know that is not needed, in only one way that leads to another.

Now as you can have some ideas of conceptual reality, what you have to do is to allow your inner confidence that you have built over time, in place that into the future and work from that place.

Now I could talk to a part of you that knows, that there are some things that are real, yet it also knows that nothing is real, like how does confidence feel? Where is in your body? And as you can play attention to that this feeling can align, it’s self to anything that was in the way, and as you can find anyways, in side out in the world.

You now have to work out what you can do next, what is the very next step, that you need to do, to set it in “motion”, and what “pictures” sounds and feeling will lead you into tapping into the “universal” energy that will show you the ways, and people and resources that having this natural confidence in all your futures, that lead to getting the wonderful relationships that will allow you to have your ideas come in to being, now I don’t know how much of this will make sense for you, now and I don’t know if you are willing to do what it takes, to be willing to allow these new ideas, align in just the right ways that you can focus now on making little steps each day, making notes reading the right papers, searching the internet, going to new places in side the world that will give you more and more opportunities, and in the end get you what you want in just the right ways that are in alignment with all your beliefs and values, and as you can place them into the new ways you can have what you want and need. Only in the right ways that work for you from that time that you have in your dreams, all the way into the now, and as that time and this time are in alignment, you can go and produce the life you want.


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« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2007, 07:24:32 PM »

OK.  You really put somethings into perspective for me.  I really like the white / black belt analogy and that really works for me.  Nice job on picking that one up.  Smiley

From what it sounds like, what I have been doing is trying to go from my yellow or green belt to the black belt without really putting the effort in.  I can see that now.  I can see that I can acheive what I wanted, that million dollar budget, but I think I would feel better and probably get it easier with some more films (and possibly awards from festivals) under my belt.  That sounds like it really fits to me.  I will try to find funding still though, but it will be in the say 20k range instead of 1 million.  Cheesy

I am interested in reading those other posts which you mentioned.

Thanks again Jay - this was awesome!
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« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2007, 05:41:28 PM »

Hey Neil thanks for the link.  I'm checking it out right now.  Looks pretty interesting.  Thanks agian.  Smiley
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