Craft Truck: Conversations with film & TV professionals

Ivan Victor goes deep with what it takes to edit comedy versus scripted shows.

You’ll get the full, uncut, audio interview from our In the Cut episode with Ivan. He tells it like he is. Great guy. And thanks to our guest host Baron Vaughn.

Other posts you may enjoy:

Dan Lebental Uncut

Tom Richmond on Through the Lens

Lighting Morgan Freeman

And if you like what you hear, please hop on over to iTunes and write us a review!

We welcome John Suits and Gabriel Cowan of New Artists Alliance (Bad Milo, Extracted, Static) to the podcast.

In this episode, we discuss how John and Gabriel grew their company from mostly micro budgeted films to larger scale projects on a consistent basis.

In this episode we cover:

On attracting talent:

The talent value equation:

Picking a distributor:

Enjoy the podcast as these guys go into depth on the film making process.

Other podcasts you may enjoy:

Indie film making tips with Richard Boddington

Maren Olson, Traction Media – the sales business

Producing with Neal Dodson & Corey Moosa (All is Lost, Margin Call)

Producing with Nicholas Tabarrok (The Art of the Steal, Defendor)

If you’ve checked out part 1 of our interview with Nancy, you are already familiar with the #1 note that she receives – Get to Oz faster.

In this uncut podcast, we serve up more goodies, inspiring thoughts and behdind-the-scenes information from one of the top editors working today.

Watch Nancy on In the Cut:

Nancy Richardson part 1

Nancy Richardson part 2

Other posts you may enjoy:

Dan Lebental Uncut

Tom Richmond on Through the Lens

Lighting Morgan Freeman

And if you like what you hear, please hop on over to iTunes and write us a review!

Richard Boddington debut feature was a self financed $150,000 genre film, Dark Reprieve. The film went on to be picked up and distributed nationally by Image Entertainment. What’s great about Richard’s story is how he went about making his first film, his take aways, and then more importantly, how he leveraged that into his next two endeavors.

Shortly after completing Dark Reprieve, he was able to line up The Dogfather, a $1 million plus family film starring Chris Parnell. And then his journey takes him to his latest family film, Against the Wild, starring Natasha Henstridge and CJ Adams. His journey is inspiring, because he gives us a step by step on how each of these movies was made and what he had to do to get each film off the ground. Packed with great tips and advice, I highly recommend this episode.

The value of good packaging and presentation

Understanding project goals (for a first feature):

Richard came into the project with a very specific goal for his movie. It wasn’t to make a ton of money; it was to just to get the film out there… somehow, and to make his money back. Not make money. Just make his money back. And’s that’s critical, because for Richard, it took the pressure off. He wasn’t counting on the film to feed his family or anything. The film, for him, was a spring board to what he hoped would be bigger projects. Which is exactly what happened?

Tip for low-budget movie production:

1) Carefully balance budget and financing.

2) Put money on the screen

3) Keep the budget as low as possible

4) Keep crew size a small as possible

5) Find qualified people just starting out

6) Do as much as you can, if you have the skill and are comfortable to do it yourself.

7) Think about how to combine rolls (for example, a 1st AD can act as production manager).

Richard goes into depth on each of the above in the podcast… and then dives into how he used his low budget experience to get into bigger films. Enjoy this episode.

Other podcasts you may enjoy:

Maren Olson, Traction Media – the sales business

Producing with Neal Dodson & Corey Moosa (All is Lost, Margin Call)

Producing with Nicholas Tabarrok (The Art of the Steal, Defendor)

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