Intro

The first thing I have to say about producing your own film or TV project is: DO IT! It's so much fun it should be illegal. The second thing is: prepare to work your ass off! Even our little 15 minute short film was a gruelling process. I'm sure it gets easier with each one you do, but if you never do the first one and risk making mistakes - you'll never do a second one. So go for it.

The Winner was my first project directing and producing, but I had a lot of help from the years of knowledge I gained working in the industry and from the dedicated people I was working with. This made things a little less painful. But for those of you who don't have that to fall back on, I'm going to go through as much of the process as I have space for, trying to include the stuff we did right AND the stuff we did wrong. For specific questions, check out the Question & Answer page; you can submit your own queries.

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