My First Indie Film
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Follow along the 90-Day journey as a first-time director, Jason Baumgardner, makes his maiden voyage into no-budget filmmaking. Hear recaps of each day as the filmmaker goes from finding an idea, writing the screenplay, directing the film, and editing the footage. All in 90-DAYS!

Editing 9: Computer Crash!

Editing 9: The Hackintosh crashes Jason’s progress and emotions. He shares how "Rebel without a Crew" TV show encourages him. Then Jason reflects on s...
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Editing 8: Looking at a Mountain

Editing 8: Jason misses self-imposed deadlines for completing the film and discusses his honest feelings of the post-production slog. He shares his ne...
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Editing 7: When is a Scene Done?

Editing 7: What is most important in making a cut in the footage?Jason revisits Walter Murch’s book, “In the Blink of an Eye”. Jason tells how he impl...
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Editing 6: Establish Point-Of-View

Editing 6: Jason gleans from the movie Traffic on editing point-of-view and how to get into a scene. He shares how he’s choosing the take he likes as ...
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Editing 5: First Scene

Editing 5: Actual cutting of the footage is underway and Jason shares reactions of a first viewing. He shares some encouragement from Jeremy and how t...
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Editing 4: Emotional Ping Pong

Editing 4: Honest fellowship with other filmmakers gives Jason perspective on life and career. He finds creative inspiration from a twitter thread of ...
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Editing 3: Resistance is Back

Editing 3: Raw honesty from Jason as he shares his struggle with working on the film in editing. He shares what helped break the resistance and what m...
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Editing 2: Composing the Future

Editing 2: Jason meets with a possible composer. A post-mortem call with producers goes very well and Jason shares the excitement that comes out of th...
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Editing 1: Syncing Back To Reality

Editing Update 1: The realities of post-production set in quickly with syncing sound to the footage. Jason discusses how the 90-day timeline is going....
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Day 67: Exhausted on Cloud Nine

Day 67:  Jason reflects on becoming a feature film director and reentering family life. He discusses what the day after production entailed with retur...
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