Celtx
Free Final Draft knockoff
Casey Neistat
Ideas are overvalued. Everyone has ideas.
Execution is all that matters
Opportunity for a three-act narrative (with...an idea...of course)
Luck is where opportunity meets preparation
The internet is our opportunity.
Overcome fear...go to old folks home or funeral...
Trouble in Paradise - inspiration for Hotel
Rushmore or Darjeeling sequels
Love me Tonight
Hitchcock - Sabotage
39 Steps
"Torn Curtain" - strong homage
Echo + Amazon
Everyone loves to sell, hates to ship.
Taking other ideas, helping them.
Several platforms you are using to build better business model
Access anytime
Should be no gatekeepers, nobody to tell you what you cannot do
Salesmen get rewarded on how much money they save their customers
Change the energy to focus on customers and not on recorded sales
Focus on what they're good at. They have a promise and don't try to be more.
Open-standard player : What's the search algorithm.
What outs are in or out (trending)
Producing too much infrastructure (making our world highly capitalized)
@LutsFinger Google says "do not evil," but they do not say "do good"
Customers are in total control
Access to the keys...social engineering...stealing from other innovators
I want to re-invent Hollywood.
I want to go back in time.
I want to start a company that will be seen not only as a promise and a brand, but as classic. People will stop caring about story or jokes or explosions and just go because I will have created a consistent experience in every project. My pictures will be atmospheric, nostalgiac, well-written, and story oriented character-driven films that will be seen as events.
Piratization helps even if it's less money.
Desire to have something when and where you want it.
Pirate Bay the movie...distributed
Nic Cage
Terrible time to be a celebrity.
(Memes, fake celebrities, no movie stars)
Nervous wreck at premier. "Do you know what kind of actor you are?" No. He figured out he could do this when it was well received.
Didn't want to get comfortable with a drama. Jerry Bruckheimer saw something in him. The Rock and Leaving Las Vegas done same time. Called Connery maestro. Mentored him. Encouragement and empowerment. Forget about Academy Award. Pick material based on challenges and uncomfort. Always stay a student, never be a maestro.
Get "naked" as a film presence.
Wife connected with Joe as him. Less acting. just being.
Kinda smiled at the clip about kid buying alcohol. Mostly just looked intense or even sad.
Paul Schraeder Pauline Kael had knowledge and film comment. Personal life makes it into film reviews. How does personal aspects eclipsing the work itself make sense. "Here we go again with the memes."
Facetime is extraordinarily helpful to see 8 year old and wife. Keeps intimacy. Tries to work on family vacations to take with them.
He's satisfied a personal need for style with Face/Off.
Hemingway : Taught fishing line droplets of water off fishing line.
"Son you got a panty on your head"
Wanted to be naked playing panflute.
At stoplight one time, saw guy anxious to go (green), leaned back, put hand on head almost like falling asleep...he wants to do that in a movie.
Your place in film history: he's a student. Seasoned kinds of performances.
Doesn't know final evaluation of body of work.
Two aspects to sci fi
sci fi provides engine to get "far out." (ghost rider)
emotional content still there within the concept.
be political in positive way making it important genre (sci fi, district 9)
Thought Moonstruck wasn't right for him, he wanted to do Vampire's Kiss.
David Lynch impression to lighten mood on Joe
"Hey man, let's get drunk." favorite line to Anton Yelchin
"Thank you for saving my childhood" to Adam West on Jay Leno
"I saw Nic TRY to be Adam West"
Unique encounter: in Romania next to Transylvania woman tried to bite him. He was scared.
After mistakes, be alchemist. Turn lead into goals. Puts mistakes in the work. Talked back at cops, put it into Joe. Do something positive with it.
Be proud of yourself and do something positive with it.
How long do you stay in her character
(Offers to take care of her plane ride)
Dying in the Light character still in him. Bottle of wine helps to shake character.
Investors hang out around incubators
2 golden questions
what other ideas do you have for me
who else should I talk to
Join powerful organizations - if everyone is selling something, you're in the wrong room
Daniel Schauenberg - Etsy creator?
Harrison Shaff - AirBnB
Why open source? (give away tools for free
You probably owe most of your stack to open source
Don't reinvent the wheel (all the time)
Give back to the community
Raid 2
Staples of the genre, no political commentary
Assault on Precinct 13 Escape from New York
Dead Alive (door frame kill in first Raid)
Script written before first Raid
I want to inspire you.
Let me brag first (and throughout haha), because I cannot believe this experience was entirely free. I was even fed lunch everyday (although I skipped lunch one day so I wouldn't miss any film panels that took place during) and given free booze, burgers, and fries at night.
I've met creators and innovators and authors and entertainers.
THIS is the meaning of life.
This is also a job, albeit one without pay, that has been more rewarding than any other job I've had. I was able to have freedom. I could go wherever I wanted almost whenever I wanted. I could do my part and then just sit in on these talks and just learn, observe, or experience. With this freedom, no pay, and even accidentally coming in late one day, did this make me slack off? Absolutely not. I engaged with more dedication. I could have conversations with these speakers to make them more comfortable. I was there for them, and I promised them and followed through. Why do so many people not care about the jobs that pay them to be there? Why did so many of the volunteers not care about any panels or worry about seeing any music stars (besides Lady Gaga, everyone was more interested in any parties)?
When there is no incentive (money), and we're doing what we want without fear or consequence as a main motivator, people will excel. This is what life and living and having a "job" should be about. This was "interest" as culture.
These are all people talking about what they do with their lives.
They are spreading their wisdom and ideas and that's what makes this world go around. I'm so lucky to be a part of this, and thankful I became a volunteer. I can't believe I saw the creator (co-founder) of Reddit for free in his "Be Awesome without their Permission" panel. The main theme was "Don't Give Up." He told the story of a friend of his that decided he wanted to take pictures. He bought a camera and moved to New York. His pictures were terrible, but he was obsessed. He researched photography online. He studied techniques and styles, and started something called "Humans of New York" that I highly recommend looking into if you haven't already. Very inspiring stuff. What I see when I look at his pictures (and read little tidbits of conversations that accompany them) is that everyone is exceptional. After seeing enough celebrities (honestly more meaningful from a distance as if watching a talk show or conversation), the addictive feeling of seeing them didn't go away, but it became more similar to the feelings I get when I'm with friends and family. (If you've ever watched a couple hours of a TV show, I'm sure you could relate as the characters are people you spend almost too much time with).
Jeffrey Tambor's (Arrested Development) best piece of advice was to basically grab shoulders. If they turn you away, just remind them of the fact that they were in your position at one point just trying to get someone to notice them. Don't be afraid to grab some shoulders.
(This is my contribution:) You'll effectively turn some heads.
Jason Bateman added that we all learned about being desperate in sixth grade so we all know not to get to that point. "Right up until that point, though, do whatever you can." Bother people to notice you.
I also met a sports writer who described his pursuit of his dream job and when he got it, it turned out he was so micro-managed he couldn't stand it. Every single one of them, speakers and attendees I spoke with were all a part of a great struggle. As much as they would almost advertise how difficult their lives have gotten, they always do what they want to do, meaning they choose to do what they're doing. People in the entertainment industry, however, would describe a stroke of luck that got them where they are today. After Bateman got his job on "Arrested Development," it wasn't until "the first actor started acting" when Mr. Tambor had his first monologue and set the tone of the entire show with his dry delivery...that was when Bateman was first inspired and felt lucky to do what he was actually comfortable doing. Now he's directed his first movie and is set (funded) on directing his next, which will be a type of murder mystery (did not sound comedic at all).
If there's any piece of mind, no matter what you find to do in life, there is always time to screw around and relax. I met a man who works in Los Angeles for NASA who spent all last week "binge-watching" "House of Cards." He asked which episode I was on, as I brought it up, after telling me he's seen every episode now. I'm six episodes in, so I asked him to envy me a little, to which he politely replied "I do."
There was also a spiritual therapist. Of course, I'll admit he was on the bus with me one day, so at first it was harder for me to think of him as intelligent let alone the "genius" he claimed to be. "When I'm dead, they'll remember me as a genius." I knew he knew what he was talking about if only because he was British. He told me many of our problems and frustrations could be solved by holding a rock in one hand. He recommended, and even pulled out crystal. I held it, and it was cold. Of course, my hands were cold. He said this was because I was holding everything in. I like to remain a mystery (I am a "Mr. E" ha (ha)), I put it, and he agreed. The energy that made my hands cold supposedly stays inside me. With the crystal, eventually it would warm as energy was transferred to it. According to him, this was the same effect as venting (trolling on the internet or arguing with someone also do the trick). As I'm writing this, I can assure you my hands are warm. I certainly feel at peace.
His lesson is the one I'll end with: We're all humans, and we're on this earth together to help each other. SXSW (South by Southwest) reassured me of this. It will be remembered as one of the greatest experiences of my life and a great restoration of my faith in humanity.
Robots replacing people? No.
People will be educated to do other things.
Education is the most important part of our future.
Alexes Ohanian FOUNDER of Reddit
"Be Awesome Without Their Permission"
Nobody knows...everyone is hacking it.
Grumpy Cat is a girl
No time for competition, doesn't try, doesn't give any damns
Competition sucks, you help them...people get to them through you
(This is what advertisers do, like seeking out a popular website and putting their fucking ads all over it)
BUT...if we help each other, that's good...exposure and capitalism is good
You care about your first fans...when you're successful, you forget and don't care about your haters
"You are a rounding error" was his negative re-enforcement that he needed to prove wrong
Entrepreneurs just do it...and don't give up
Spin Chill was a drill, they turned it into a product of their own
Everyone starts out sucking at something...no grades, just about creating
Humans of New York guy sucked at taking pictures. Never gave up, never stopped obsessing and being passionate about it, researching photos and craft and techniques.
Not about one guy on mic preaching, it's about all of us to make things catch on. Nobody should go without internet when people still do use dial up in rural america.
Secrets founder Chris (whisper?)
Texas Film Commission
Texas Short Film
Animal Madness
Animals have many of the same disorders as human
"prove love" cloth or milk (spikes) mother(comfort or food)
If you are an animal rights advocate, you should be for human rights by default
Animals are as individual as we are, with personality traits (optimistic, scaredy cat, dumbass)
Go home, Marketing, You're Drunk
Content Strategy
substance and structure on content side
workflow and governance on people side
You will never be the next big thing because someone bigger and better will steal the ideas and be the word of mouth of the week
Content Marketing distributes relevant content to people rather than just content. Stories are the most important thing...relates to more people.
Heart of marketing is follow-through...talking...to customers.
Conversations...caring...customer service...
Customers don't care...they just want RELIABLE shit.
(Speaker said "to fix your shit," which is wrong)
Bear has options to eat:
No strategy...just goal and tactic...mind as well open mouth until fish jumps in
Socrates:
Don't fight the old, but focus on building the new
(Speaker fights the new)
Laing
We live when we notice the present only when it is disappearing becayse change is so speedy
A new Foundation:
Inquisitiveness:
...Actively seeking answers
Debate
...Pay people more to be able to be free so customer service works
...We have to be able to debate in healthy ways.
Judiciousness
...Results and act on results...like figuring who will be on maternity leave
Accountability
Tenacity
...
Dawson was literally talking about "ass to mouth"
SXSW
Currency
1 Make people feel like insiders
...word of mouth is exciting because they know a secret. People are naturally
2 Find the inner remarketability
...surprising, novel, or interesting (blender blends iPhones)
...show rather than tell
Triggers
Opening song/music for sitcom?
Hump Day...Wednesdays are best for the business
Top of mind = tip of tongue
Triggered to think about movies on the weekend
Cheerios talked about on Saturdays
Peanut Butter is an ad for Jelly
Kit Kat sales down, "break's best friend" for Coffee and Kit Kat
Emotion
When we care we share
Bad emotions still trigger talk
Just say No
Increases drug use
Public
Built to show built to grow
Make the private public
Practical Value
25% looks bigger than $5 off
Stories
Success stories
Carrier of information
Trojan Horse of information - makes you think about product
Viral 2.0
Shares are important more than views
Exponential growth over specific groups/people
Psychology not technology understanding why they use them
Offline and online - 7% online (as opposed to offline)
[email protected]
Nerdist News
monsters to explore themes rosonating today
Everyone is a secret Godzilla fan
double bass leather glove resin
I really thought I could make another low budget...but changed over night
Very lucky
2 years solid "Oh know, I gotta go film Godzilla"
Working to make the best film
Biggest challenge - Spielberg growing up - emotion - characters
Not good or evil he's just nature
did not know grumpy cat or honeybadger
abused the planet where we're the alpha-creature
the dog lives...dies a year later of cancer haha
Tara Veneruso
[email protected]
Austin Film festival
Liev Schrieber Greg Mottola Mr. Green running around kissing her girlfriend
Rodriguez
Distribution pipeline allows you to bypass getting distributor
He's the suit. Wears El Rey t-shirt
Diego Luna, actor, director, Cesar Chavez
Believe in that voice
Cinema, only one who has control is director
Real world, there's other things, the film is just small part of other's life
He's a father, capable of telling someone's stories that matter to him
Leave kids in a better place than what he lives in
Our strength is in our numbers - Chavez
You become addicted to your work even in failure
He has to know why he did it, as if proving that it was important to see crowds and audiences
Loves to be pampered by his director
You can always become a director
Start whenever and still have something to say
Do anything and become a director someday
Rodriguez
Only rule is: No rules
Shot digital way before everyone else
Nobody's doing it, so there's no wrong way to do it yet
That's innovation
RYou can be free with great creativity
He can watch the set live at any time with his favorite new app
Everything he did were complete accidents, sometimes they perform and underperform just concentrate on your performance and learn from it.
Desperado made my accent sexy - suddenly latinos were cool - Wilmer Valderaama
Don't pre-edit and say it's not good
Robert Duvall
"Just do it" to keep your privacy when not working.
"I'm a professional actor."
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