Use Your Experience

You never can get too much experience.

You won't find me knocking education. But I will say this. It amazes me all these young educated people with their advanced degrees who think they know everything about life. But have had no experience in life.

What makes a great artist is using their experiences to tell their story.

A great actor uses his or her experiences to create a great character for performance. That's what method acting is known for. The greats like Brando, DeNiro and Pacino use method acting to bring their experiences to their character's performance to an extreme.

A writer uses his experiences to tell a story that only he can tell.

A good teacher shares his experiences in life to teach his students and have the subject relate to the times.

If you look throughout history, all of the great historical figures have used their experiences to help change the world. Ghandi. Thoreau. Aristotle. Plato. Sophocles. Abraham Lincoln. Martin Luther King. Shakespeare. Nelson Mandela. Malcolm X. The list goes on. If you search the most famous figures in history, the great ones have taken their experiences in life and used them for the better good.

Use your experiences to make your movie.

NO BUDGET FILMMAKING 

or 

How to be a Well-Known Filmmaker & Be Broke at the Same Time

Written by Jack Truman

Copyright 2013 @ Dixie Publishing

ISBN: 978 – 1 – 300 – 61518 –7 

Underground Filmmaking

Anyone can make a movie.

If you're a truly independent filmmaker, you'll find a way to shoot your film and get your movie made.

Underground filmmaking is the way to go. If you use this alternative way to make a film, you'll make your movie and share it with the world.

What's underground filmmaking? How do you do it? Where do I start? There's a world of information out there to help you with this. It's right at your fingertips.

You don't have to go to film school and spend thousands of bucks to make an independent film. Just start by going to Google. Go to Google and type the words 'underground filmmaking'. There's a world of resources and tools waiting for you on the internet. Want to know what's going on in the world with underground filmmaking? Just go to Google News and type in the words 'underground filmmaking'. Shit, I just typed a Google search with the words Underground Filmmaking and over 2 million search results came up. The first one was the encyclopedia definition for Underground Film:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_film

Hell, I just went to Google News and typed in the words Underground Filmmaking, and hundreds of news stories just came up for today.

There's a world of information out there for the taking. You just have to take it, go with it, grab your balls, and jump right in.

NO BUDGET FILMMAKING 

or 

How to be a Well-Known Filmmaker & Be Broke at the Same Time

Written by Jack Truman

Copyright @ 2013 Dixie Publishing

ISBN: 978 – 1 – 300 – 61518 –7 

Using Blogs & V-Logs to Make a No Budget Film

Jack Truman & Opal Dockery

2012 Cine Vegas Film Festival

WOODY THE REDNECK

You have to get an audience for your movie.

It's easy to make a movie with no money. But it takes time and work. A lot of your moviemaking will be getting an audience for your film. As an independent filmmaker, you have to wear many hats. And you have to be create, while always thinking and finding ways to build an audience for your no budget movie that's outside of the box.

A couple of creative ways are by using blogs and video blogs for your movie.

Create a film blog for your No Budget movie. Film some short 2 to 3 minute episodes of you talking interview style to the camera discussing your film. Make about 5-8 short interviews and create a short video blog interview web series online promoting your film. There's websites like Youtube and Blip TV that are free to join and create a free web series. With each episode, you can have a link attached to the site where people can go and buy your film. You never know. Your web series could generate thousands, even millions of views. Think about all those people that you're reaching who are finding out about your film.

Make a Podcast. Along with Film V-Logs, podcasts are another great way to share your film. A podcast is like a radio audio broadcast; like a radio show. People make podcasts about all kinds of subjects. You can too. Go to the internet and create a Podcast for your film. Have one day a week that you do a radio show promoting your film. It's a free and easy way to build an audience for your project. And a lot of fun. You can get really creative with this.

These are just a couple of creative ways to help you with your filmmaking journey to build an audience for your movie. 

Make your movie.

NO BUDGET FILMMAKING or How to be a Well-Known Filmmaker & Be Broke at the Same Time

Written by Jack Truman

Copyright 2013 @ Dixie Publishing

ISBN: 978 – 1 – 300 – 61518 –7

THE ACCEPTABLE SIN

Directed by Jack Truman

A Dixie Film

 

Anyone Can Make a Movie

Filmmaker Jack Truman & Writer/Star Opal Dockery

With the Crew of THE ANDY MEYERS STORY

River's Edge Film Festival

Anyone can make a movie.

Yes, you heard that right. Anyone can make a movie.

Are you just as smart as anyone? Take the dumbest person you ever met in your life. Out of all the people you've come across in your life. Try to think of the least intelligent person you've ever come across. Are you thinking about them right now? Do you picture them in your mind?

That idiot you're thinking about can make a movie.

Take it from someone who's been in this business for over 25 years. You don't need money. You don't even need to know how this business works. If you have an idea, or a story to tell, you can make that idea or story into a movie and share it with the world.

With no money.

Title: NO BUDGET FILMMAKING or How to be a Well-Known Filmmaker & Be Broke at the Same Time

Written by Jack Truman

Copyright 2013 @ Dixie Publishing

ISBN: 978 – 1 – 300 – 61518 – 7