Title: 3. The TRUTH Assignment · One Grand Film Skool

Title: 3. The TRUTH Assignment

Assignment #1: My biggest takeaway is that the industry invests in artists with proof, not ideas. The best path to take is making nano-budget movies that can be leveraged into bigger budgeted films. The $1k film can lead to the $10k film which can then lead to $50k film then so on and so on until you have a proven track record that a producer can rely on to secure a million dollar or more budget for one of your films.

Assignment #2: My biggest concern/challenge is in the writing. It always has been. I loved writing, until I had the goal of making nano-budget movies. I’ve tried to write those types of producible screenplays for YEARS and what ends up happening is the initial seed of an idea grows the more I nurture it because I chase what I think makes a good story and excites me and that feeling of excitement always creates a story that has too big of a budget that I can’t afford. So I stop writing as to not waste any more time and then I start a new idea with every intention of making it producible for under $10k and it inevitably grows and I shelve the story to start a new idea and the same thing happens over and over. I struggle to write nano-budget films and it’s in the writing process that I need the most help. It has been a torturous Sisyphean cycle that has spat me out making me wonder where all the time went as my peers have gone on to make their own movies. My midlife crisis has finally arrived. Haha. No but seriously, I need help in the writing process.

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