Movie Training & Film Making Tips – Volume 3
Movie Training & Film Making Tips – Volume 3
In this installment of Film Making Tips, I want to discuss film length. This is an area that trips up a lot of people.
One of the biggest rookie mistakes that beginning filmmakers make is that they try to stuff everything into their movie and end up with a six hour monster. Problem is, most beginning filmmakers don’t have the experience or the skills to pull something like this off and they end up with a muddled disaster.
So, what you want to do, when first starting out, is make the film shorter than you actually want to make it. Leave the audience wanting more…even a sequel. In fact, you might want to leave the ending of the movie open ended so that it lends itself to a sequel. You can never give the audience too little, but you can give them too much.
What you should do is map out your whole movie ahead of time with
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