The first of this years new crop to bite the dust is ABC’s Lucky 7. As it happens, the set for Lucky 7 is just outside of Craft Truck’s office. For the past several months the way to work has been a daily reminder of the new show. The set went up fast. Carpenters, painters, …
Clearly you are asking, what the heck does this have to do with filmmaking? Answer: Everything. If you’ve never read Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends & Influence People (definitely a worthy ready), it speaks to the exact same market that weight loss plans do. And, to the exact same idea that the film business …
We had the opportunity a couple months back to sit down with Producer Nicholas Tabarrok (“The Art of the Steal”, “Defendor”). On location in Nicholas’s LA office, he gives a dissertation on things he would have done differently had he started his career today, how he goes about packaging and financing films, and gets into …
Perhaps the greatest asset you can develop in your creative and business arsenal is the art of the pitch. Selling. Especially when you are selling an idea. You can’t touch it. You can’t smell it. You can’t taste it… But you can imagine it. The pitch, like anything, is a skill. Some people are born …