My Worst Short Film Mistakes
Learning from your mistakes is hard, but it is honestly one of the absolute best ways to become a better filmmaker.
In this video, we are opening the vault and doing a complete autopsy on my senior short film from college to see exactly where I failed—so that you can succeed. We break down the trap of shooting shots just because they "look cool" without any actual narrative purpose, the danger of undercutting your own emotional stakes with cheap jokes, and why the "if this, then this" structure will ruin your story. Finally, we look at the biggest screenwriting mistake of all: a broken protagonist who doesn't actually drive the climax of their own movie.
You have to write a lot of bad movies before you can write a good one. Let's look at exactly why this one didn't work.
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