My name is Colm O’Murchu from International Film Base and Australian Film Base.
This is a Free Two Day Mini Film Course with Multiple Videos. Please allow about 45 minutes per day.
Day One
Day Two
Just a quick background on who we are: International Film Base and the Flagship 5 Month Filmmaking Course Online
We run successful live 5 Month Film Courses in Sydney and Melbourne \and hundreds of Films have been made on our Film Course.
We have now launched the Online Five Month Film Course where anyone can take our amazing film course from any part of the world.
The outcome is that you will make a movie over the next five months. Please see video lower down in the page.
And at Number 1 Mentorship You need a successful filmmaker to show you the way to succeed. Not everyone can find a Mentor from the film industry. This takes time and effort.
Please Play Video One ref the Mentorship and the Five Month Filmmaking Course
2 Passion. You need to have passion for Making Films and be passionate about movies. Every successful filmmaker has passion for filmmaking
3 Persistence Every successful filmmaker has this characteristic. They keep going now matter how much rejection they have to take.
4 Your Network. You need to learn how to build your network. We teach this on our 5 Month Filmmaking Course
5 Learn Knowledge. You need to learn how to Make a Film. You need to learn how to Make a Film the Professional Way. You will learn how to make a Film on the Five Month Film Course.
What does it take to Make a Low or Micro-Budget Film that gets seen by a Worldwide Audience.You can make your Film Now.
It is only a matter of committing to making the film. The very first thing to do is set a Deadline for your Shoot.
When starting out it is important to consider the following Steps
Step One: Spend as Little Money as possible and use every resource you have, when making your first films.
Step Two:
it helps if you have multiple filmmaking skills in your toolbox.
Example Writing the Script and also Editing your own Film.
Having these two skills saves you so much money and angst in the process of making films. These Particular Skills we teach on our Flagship 5 Month Film Course
Mindset
You need the Right Mindset: Do you feel excited about making a film that gets seen all around the world either in Film Festivals or Online.?
I always suggest the following goals.
There is one number that you need to specify.
The Eyeball Goal for your Film. What is the Eyeball Goal.
This is the number of people that will see your film in its lifetime.
For your Short Film you might set the Eyeball Goal at One Million People or more .
Your Feature Film , you could set the eyeball goal at 10 Million or more or even a 100 million or more. This means the amount of people who watch your film, your creation
Make it exciting and way more than you could imagine. This will drive your work. Set the goal and you will always get a much bigger audience. Set a tiny goal and no one but your family will watch it.
What if my film only achieves half the eyeball goal?
“Only 500,000 people watched my film in year one and not a million.”
I hear some of my students saying.
Please take the glass half full approach and not the glass half empty approach.
You have had great success. Think of a hundred thousand people in a stadium. The crowd looks huge and then 5 times that crowd have watched your Film. Come on That is amazing.
And it is only Year One. That will possibly happen again in Year Two with the same film. You are getting noticed. And you get into 20 Film Festivals.
Aim Big and see where you end up. It will be much further than if you Aim Small.
You can do the above provided you have the following:
Or even better you can join the Flagship Five Month Filmmaking Course, whose sole goal is to guide you from the beginning with a Story Idea to a completed Ten Minute Film that gets seen in Film Festivals and Online. We can be your Experienced Mentor and your Guide as you Make the Film.
I had no Budget raised, when I started making the Feature Film. Tabernacle 101 ( trailer seen in above video) was cash-flowed with small amounts of money and over two years it cost 50K which came from different sources over that time.
The Film was Cash-flowed. In About 30K in Year One over time and 20K in Year Two over time.
That averaged in Year One about $2.5 K per Month or $577 Per Week.
I had the mindset that I would make the film, no matter what and having no money was not going to be barrier or a reason not to.
Literally we had no money to make it at the start of the film production. We had Zero Budget
But over the two years we used these amazing techniques to attract the money and get the film made and now it has won 15 Best Film Awards and being selected in 30 International Film Festivals
You will need a Filmmakers Mindset , Mentorship and a small amount of money that can be cash flowed as you shoot.
Decide now and once for all that I am going to Make A Film starting today and completing on a Set Date. Say to yourself ‘I am a Filmmaker and I will Now Make Films starting today.
The Eight Pillars of Every Completed Film is as follows.
Our Flagship Five Month Course teaches the above in detail and supports you with one on one face to face 30 minute coaching sessions, as you make your film.
To Enrol please Go Here
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Colm O’Murchu is a successful Indie Filmmaker and Director of three successfully released feature films and one documentary.
He has run Independent Film Central since 1997 and helped filmmakers produce hundreds of short films made on his filmmaking courses.
He has spoken at Indie Film Seminars all over the world. His most recent film Tabernacle 101 has been released in 2020. He is currently in development on his next feature film Absolute Freedom and Generational Theft.
The above is a simplistic summary of how story works. We make sure our Film Course Students get it when they are creating the stories on our Flagship Courses.
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