Making a Filmmaker

By Chaz Nenneker, Daniel Geyer

There are people who spend all day watching Netflix. There are people who spend all day obsessing over the latest DSLR slider. Then there's you.

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The podcast currently has 43 episodes available.

Making a Filmmaker episodes:

April 08, 2020 Avoid This Mistake That's Causing You To Write Cliches
After you listen to this you will be a god at writing characters and situations that are not cliches. This will change your life. You're welcome ;) Go to Story.MakingAFilmmaker.com for more.
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24min
April 01, 2020 Corona, Steve-O, and Netflix I Guess
Go to Story.MakingAFilmmaker.com for more. Chaz and Dan tie together multiple topics but the point these crazy guys make that you want to understand and apply to your work is that perspective matters. You need to have a point of view as a filmmaker. And not like a political point of view or a point of view you are trying to force on your audience. They're talking about- what characters point of view are we showing? Where should the camera go? How will this make the audience feel?
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27min
March 11, 2020 Surround Yourself With People Who Make You Feel Like an Idiot
Go to Story.MakingAFilmmaker.com for more. Chaz and Dan recall a time where they used first principles thinking to save an "impossible shot" when they were on set and their other mindsets around building a team.
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20min
March 04, 2020 CPR is No Match for Punches to the Face and Words of Encouragement
Story.MakingAFilmmaker.com In movies if you punch a dead person they are revived. I'm not a medical professional but I can still tell you that if you have an emergency call 911.
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15min
February 26, 2020 Adobe, FCPX, Resolve. You're Not Gonna Like It
Story.makingafilmmaker.com Adobe sucks. There I said it. This is Dan btw. Chaz doesn't agree. But I write these bad summaries so I can say whatever I want!
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12min
February 19, 2020 Your Film Will Be Ruined By TV Companies
Story.makingafilmmaker.com Chaz and Dan explain how TV's create features for marketing purposes that actually distort and destroy what you're trying to view
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27min
February 12, 2020 No One Went To See This Movie, It Made A Billion Dollars
Story.MakingaFilmmaker.com Chaz & Dan talk about how It's A Wonderful Life accidentally ended up in the public domain and then didn't..
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13min
February 09, 2020 Our Film 'The Gamer' is going to the Big Screen
www.MayviewStudios.com Our film The Gamer will be screening at Regal Cinemas this week at the Hollywood Reel International Film Festival. The festival takes over L.A. Live and The Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles this week. Today Chris List and Dan Angers join us to discuss the process from idea to big screen.
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27min
February 05, 2020 Don't hide the edit?
For more, peep story.makingafilmmaker.com now. Today's episode we talk about hiding the edit vs not hiding it and why everyone thinks you should hide the edit at all times
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11min
January 29, 2020 You're Using Your TV Wrong
Get the Story Structure Cheat Sheet at Story.Makingafilmmaker.com - TV's mush all the frames together, distort the color, crush any detail in the dark and bright areas of films that the worlds greatest artists and scientists put together just to market more TVs and we pay the price. Chaz and Dan find this hilarious
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21min

FAQs about Making a Filmmaker:

How many episodes does Making a Filmmaker have?

The podcast currently has 43 episodes available.