Chapter 3
The Poseidon Adventure: Let’s Make a Movie
In This Chapter
• Making films within institutional systems
• Borrowing a few techniques from Hollywood
• Making films independent of those systems
• The five phases all successful films go through
Making movies is a lot like the film The Poseidon Adventure—your whole world turns upside down and you along with a handful of other people have to work as a team to overcome obstacles, solve problems, and find a way through. It will be scary, thrilling, exhausting, bittersweet, and life-changing.
Just because I’ve compared filmmaking to a movie about a sinking ship doesn’t mean that it has to be a disaster. Understanding the different ways in which films get made can help you better navigate the ...
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