May 2008

This penultimate week focused on the reality of independent producing and the art of negotiation. Neil gave another great presentation on this theme and had so much advice on how to get what you want from a negotiation, from looking at different personality types, speech and behavioural patterns that can affect the process, tips and tactics for keeping calm and focused and not panicking when things don’t seem to be moving in your favour and not getting too excited too soon when they are. It was really interesting and a great light, informal contrast to the information heavy sessions of the past few weeks. As the course comes towards its end it is really fascinating to see how far along we have all come already in terms of our understanding of producing and attitude towards the industry. I think whilst the beginning was a bit negative in terms of how hard it can be to find a great script, secure talent and funding and make a stable living from producing, and maybe made a few people think that perhaps the reality of producing is just too hard, however, as the course has continued, it has proven it has proven to many of us that we are pretty tough little cookies and we have not been deterred from our aims to produce great films, but just made us more determined that if anyone can do it, we can! I feel that of course I still have a lot to learn, but having learned the basics and the jargon in a structured, detailed fashion and had the opportunity to meet with people from all aspects of the production process, I honestly feel that I am confident now to give it a go and will not be discouraged by the fact that it can be hard, as already I have begun to see from how far my own project has come, that the rewards are high and well worth the hard work. I am now really looking forward to graduating from the course and moving forwards with my own projects!

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