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Follow Rian Johnson’s Lead to Jumpstart Your Filmmaking Career
Rian Johnson sold LOOPER the same way we’ve sold all of our TV shows and pilots…using great tape to generate excitement.
Clip-O-Mania
If you haven’t seen it already, Rian released the “clip-o-matic” tape he put together to help generate interest in his latest box-office hit LOOPER starring Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon- Levitt.
Have a peek:
Talk about a super-cool behind the scenes look at the birth of a film.
A Tried and True Technique
Clip reels like these are created for every kind of project you can imagine, and the good ones really do open doors.
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Steal This Editing Secret to Edit Film and Video Like a Pro
Editing: The Dark Art
For some, editing film and video comes easy, naturally, as if the editing gods possess their mouse clicks and control their keyboard shortcuts to magically whittle hundreds of hours of footage down into mere minutes of genius.
Then, there’s the rest of us.
You might already be a great editor. Yes? Then you should be soooo happy for you.
If not, maybe you have a best friend or romantic counterpart who is an editing genius and will gladly toil for hours on your passion project or pitch tape idea.
Or, maybe you’re flush with cash and can spend $100 to $300 an hour on a great editor who will polish your project to a sheen.
None of those things true for you?
Then you’ll be editing your project yourself. Daunting, given this simple truth:
Filmmaking Success: Do You Have This Secret Weapon?
What’s it take to make it in Hollywood?
A question we get nine times a day.
Turns out, the answer may lie in a post from Zen Master, psychotherapist, and Karate black-belt Mary Jaksch.
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We Want to Make a TV Show with You
Our agents said “you’re crazy.”
Friends said, “don’t do it.”
The lawyer said, “I wouldn’t recommend it, but if you must…”
Well, We Must…
When we wanted to break in to Hollywood, no one would take our calls. We had:
- great video pitches
- unique ideas
- the determination to succeed
It wasn’t enough. We still needed to convince production companies to meet with us and consider teaming up.
For most aspiring filmmakers and TV producers today, that’s still the case. People won’t take your calls.
Starting Now, We’re Taking Your Calls
We’ve decided to try an experiment.
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Double Trouble…
We're Joke and Biagio, a husband and wife team making our way in the world of film & TV. Together we run Joke Productions, Inc.
