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Making Our First No-Budget Feature: The Pure Vortex Production Chaos (Part 2)
Making Our First No-Budget Feature: The Pure Vortex Production Chaos (Part 2)
Production for Pure Vortex, our no-budget comedy feature, kicked off on June 25, one of the hottest days of the summer. I barely slept, not because I was nervous, I wasn’t, but the heat and racing thoughts about shot lists, rehearsals, and if we could pull this off kept me up. So maybe I was a little nervous. By 3:30 AM, I was checking gear and props, in full zombie-mode. Driving to set, my partner and cinematographer, Leya, tried chatting, but I was quieter than usual, lost in &ld…
Making Our First No-Budget Feature: The Pure Vortex Journey Begins (Part 1)
The Spark That Lit the Fire For a decade, I’ve been chasing stories. Short films, music videos, commercials, you name it. But lately, I’ve had an itch for features. I’ve wanted to go big. Enter Pure Vortex, our first no-budget comedy feature, born from a crazy idea and a lot of guts. Early this year, Branden Garrette, a buddy of mine, also a Stage 32 member who I met on the platform, dropped an idea: “If we want to make a feature, we’ve gotta do it ourselv…
Collaboration vs. Exploitation: A Filmmaker’s Decade of Lessons
I’ve been a filmmaker for nearly a decade, a journey filled with highs, lows, and everything in between. Along the way, I’ve experienced the thrill of true collaboration and the sting of exploitation. A recent incident brought these dynamics back into sharp focus, reminding me how my perspective on them has evolved over time. If you’ve worked in a creative field like filmmaking, you’ve likely brushed up against both: the rare magic of a creative partnership and th…
How To Produce Your Own No-Budget TV Pilot
I am the director and a producer for a proof of concept short called Innocent Love that we developed for a tv series that we called Forgotten Wisdom. It’s set in historic times but also very relatable to current-day problems. It is also meant to be educational in showing how problems were once dealt with. We were able to shoot during the summer of 2020 with the intention of pitching to a local streaming service in Slovenia and maybe even internationally. 1. How It All Started In…
How to Produce a TV Pilot for Next to Nothing
So I am the director and a producer for a pilot episode called Innocent Love that we developed for a tv show called Forgotten Wisdom. It’s set in historic times but also very relatable to current day problems. It is also educational in showing how problems were once dealt with. We were able to shoot during the summer of 2020 with the intention of pitching to a local streaming service in Slovenia and maybe once even internationally. 1. How it all Started A friend of ours, Sandi t…
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