The Chilling Truth behind 'Bone Lake' w/Mercedes Bryce Morgan - Just Shoot It 495

Just Shoot It: A Podcast about Filmmaking, Screenwriting and Directing

Mercedes Bryce Morgan https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5521959/ talks about building the career that got her "Bone Lake" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26783625/. From several Marshmello videos, episodes of Stargate Origins, and ten-by-tens, Mercedes has learned a lot.

One of her techniques is the pre-pitch meeting. That's a get together (on zoom of course) prior to her pitch. Kind of like a creative brief. And she sees it as an opportunity to find out what they really want. Which is sometimes easier for people to articulate, she learned, as what they don't want.

Another is embedding gifs into her shot list and seeing second units not as a budget extra, but as a real cost-saving tool.

If you're building a career as a fillmmaker, you won't want to miss out on some pointers that most people don't talk about.

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