Here we are. 2016 is fully in play. It can truly be your best year ever if you’re willing to step out there and make this year different from every other year. What’s going to make the difference is how you approach this year with clear and purposeful intentions, detailed goals that you plan out in advance, and a strategy that lays out the path for you to get there. What’s the sense of having goals if year after year after year you’re not getting anywhere and you’re not achieving your goals. Something has to change. I want to focus…
Author: Tanya Kersey
Tanya Kersey
Founder & Exec. Dir., Hollywood Black Film Festival The Filmmaker’s Success MentorTM Author of the forthcoming book, Profitable Filmmaking: The Strategic Approach to Getting Your Film Financed, Seen & Sold
I just got off a call with a client who said he was going to buy a Sony camera so he could shoot a short film. “Wait a minute!,” I told him. This person is brand new to the business and hasn’t even written the script, yet he’s going to buy a $4,000 camera? This is the perfect example of putting the cart before the horse. Not only is buying a camera for this short premature, but this person had not even investigated renting a camera for a few days. Nor had they looked into programs that loan camera equipment…