5 Lesson's From my First Documentary
Three Rules
Matt D'Avella
4.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2017
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
In episode two of Ground Up I talk about the five biggest lesson’s I learned directing my first feature length documentary Minimalism.
Over three years ago Joshua Fields Millburn, of theminimalists.com, came to me with an idea to create a documentary. I’d been making videos all my life but I’d never attempted a project so massive. Over the next couple years I worked with a group of insanely talented individuals to bring it to life. It stretched the realms of what I thought was possible & pushed me to my limits.
You can watch Minimalism: A Documentary About The Important Things on Netflix.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the show. |
| 0:01.9 | This is episode two of Groundup. |
| 0:05.1 | We are here live. |
| 0:07.7 | We're not live, but we are here in my Brooklyn apartment. |
| 0:13.1 | We're live from Brooklyn. |
| 0:14.1 | We're not live. |
| 0:30.3 | This is episode two of Ground Up, a podcast about how to build a great life from the ground up. |
| 0:36.1 | I think you saw me pause there. That's because I still have no idea what I'm doing and I'm still figuring this out. Trying to figure out the kind of content that I want to talk about. |
| 0:40.6 | I think at first it's going to be a bit business heavy. |
| 0:43.6 | I'm going to talk a little bit about how I built my business, some of the mistakes I made, |
| 0:48.1 | perhaps lending some lessons to those who are just getting started out because I think |
| 0:52.4 | it's obviously very difficult to make it as a |
| 0:55.8 | freelancer. |
| 0:56.6 | I think it takes a lot of time. |
| 0:59.1 | Nobody just starts freelancing right away without any connections and is successful. |
| 1:05.2 | If they tell you that they're doing that, they're lying. |
| 1:08.6 | So what I want to do with this podcast is talk about business, but I think I also want to |
| 1:13.3 | tap into the cultural stuff, being minimalism, the documentary we made, talking about some of |
| 1:21.2 | these concepts, because I think that if you're doing it right, that your business and your personal life shouldn't necessarily be |
| 1:31.3 | completely separate, especially if you're a freelancer or business owner, I think that you should |
| 1:36.4 | be able to integrate both of these. |
| 1:38.4 | If you really do what you love and you're passionate about it, I don't think there's any |
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