Choosing the words for your proposal and your pitch are paramount to funding your film. There are three important things: story, story, and story. Don’t put the heart of the story on page 3 or tell me you’re shooting on the RED camera. I need you to tell me something I can remember and take home in my mind to tell my husband or brag about putting my money into this incredible film. I want to be proud I am part of your film. It’s all about story. So, tell me a story in the first 3 paragraphs of your proposal or in your one page synopsis. Then when you pitch me, don’t tell me how you found the story or about your great cameraman or the brilliant writer, just tell me your story. That’s what funds films.
Use your words as manifestors; use words that bring up images. I should see your film from your words. Use words that touch my heart. I believe that, “when you touch my heart, I reach for my pocketbook.” We communicate through the heart chakra, that’s the center of our creativity and our true connection to each other. Find the words to speak to me from your heart to my heart. I want to hear words that inspire and create images. Leave me wanting to help you fund your film in any way I can.
How much time each day do you save for daydreaming? Yes, that’s an importantthing for filmmakers because you are image makers and storytellers. You need that quiet time to connect with your higher self, your guides, and the field. Please, put that time on your calendar and use it to forget this world and to live in your mind. Have fun, see your film and your future see money in the bank, and see whatever you really want. Just remember, emotions are activators. All the success stories say this. Emotions are key elements to manifesting, we manifest through our love, our kindness, and through thoughts of joy and happiness. I believe that using your quiet time to feel these emotions while day dreaming your future actually creates your future.
When you were a child and were outside playing in your make believe world and your mother called your name, didn’t you jump a foot? Where were you? You were manifesting your future, you were daydreaming. Fred Alan Wolf says that when you dream your future, it can happen just as you saw it in your daydream. He says a “handshake across time occurs.” You see it, you need to feel it, you know it is real, and then it happens. At night, before you go to sleep, see your film completed, feel it, know it and bring it into this reality with your words, your faith in yourself and your vision.
