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What Do We Sacrifice When We Give Up Time?

FilmCourage interviewed me and asked “How do you know when your movie is ready to shoot?”. In the conversation, I simplify things into three steps:

  1. Discovery: the process of defining what matters;
  2. Prioritization: organizing complexity and weighting the options and opportunities;
  3. Engineering serendipity: you build the bottle that can hold the magic elixir.  How can we reach higher? How can we accomplish more than we planned for and manufacture magnificence?

The film business as of late has been cutting budgets to the bare bones and filmmakers are rising to the occasion.  We prep our movies in less and less time.  It’s mission impossible but we deliver it.  But what get’s lost in the process?