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Aaron Jay Rome

@aaronjayrome

film superhyphenate. I ain’t no follow back girl.

 Los Angeles
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Joined September 2010
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Seven passes from your drives to picture lock. Most break on one.

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Six things save your dialogue. Five are gear. The sixth is a person.

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Four things make you finish a film. You've only paid for one.

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Five facts about the contest route. The fourth closes the door.

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The flywheel has four steps. Step three cost me eight years.

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Five rungs on the budget ladder. You're starting on three.

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The first six weeks of a feature, and week one is not writing

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Set the shoot date before you know how you'll shoot it

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Give yourself ten years and you will take all ten

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Watch these nine films for the workaround, not the story

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Four features, no permits: building a location list that shoots

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Six things happen before day one. None of them are a shot list.

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You can be a Film Director without being a successful Film Director. Don’t attach yourself to the idea of success just focus on making. Success is only a byproduct of making.
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Five days, 90 pages: how a feature actually gets shot

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A feature in 90 days: five actors, three locations, eight days

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160 scenes or 51 scenes, both run 85 minutes. One is shootable

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Your script has structure. It doesn't have an argument.

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Last year I wrote and directed 2 feature films. This year we launched a platform to release them in theaters without distributors. If you want to see true indie film in cinema, demandthescreen.com is for you.
Roaming Lens Films (@roaminglens) profile pictureRoaming Lens Films@roaminglensAug 24
This weekend we launched something called Demand The Screen. A grassroots movement to reboot indie cinema in theaters, removing the middleman. Nearly 200 emails went out direct from fans to theaters in 36 hours. 2 theaters are in play. Check it out at demandthescreen.com
Image from Roaming Lens Films (@roaminglens)
Image from Roaming Lens Films (@roaminglens)
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Three questions decide if your first feature ever gets shot

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Seven tests your idea has to pass before you write a scene

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