At the end of the day, all of us strive to make films we’re proud of.

There’s no better feeling in the world than seeing your work up on the big screen, and saying, “Heck yeah, I made that happen!”

Yet in the world of narrative filmmaking, that’s not an easy thing to do. Far from it.

Once your script is done, chances are your budget won’t be enough to translate the vision, leading to countless cuts, sacrifices, and rewrites.

Then comes the process of teaming up. The right people can take a project to the next level, but the wrong ones will derail the process. It’s not easy to tell the difference.

There will be days where you’ll have to rewrite or cut entire scenes in a matter of minutes, just because the sun’s setting and you only have access to the location for another hour.

By the time the edit rolls around, you may or may not have everything you need, but you probably won’t have everything you want.

Either way, you’ll have to make it work, hopefully producing something both you and your collaborators can be proud of.

All of this is to say, making a narrative film that carries your story and voice all the way from script to screen is no small feat.

That’s why we invited Seth Worley to our studio for a live workshop.

He’s been doing this professionally for years now, and we got him to share his best strategies for making the process more reliable, and more fun.