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A Simple Way To Make Films That Change People And The World

What do you want to happen when people watch your movie?
If you want people to:

  1. feel they have time for your work;
  2. not be impatient;
  3. be motivated to help others;
  4. value the experience over the product;
  5. be more satisfied with life in general,

you can achieve this in one simple way:
Just deliver them AWE, true mind exploding, heart enhancing AWE.

Read the Stanford study here:

http://faculty-gsb.stanford.edu/aaker/pages/documents/TimeandAwe2012_workingpaper.pdf
(via Jason Silva on Good.is)

And if you want to make movies that matter, I jotted this down a while back:

10+ Things To Think About If You Want To Make Better Films

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Hope offers his unique perspective on how to make movies while keeping your integrity intact and how to create a sustainable business enterprise out of that art while staying true to yourself.

Meet Ted

Ted Hope is a “holistic film producer”: he aims to be there from the beginning and then forever after, involved in every aspect of a film’s life cycle and ecosystem, as committed to engineering serendipity as preventing problems, as obsessed with lifting the good into the great, as he is…

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