{"id":2001,"date":"2014-05-05T03:50:58","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T03:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amusednow.com\/blog\/?p=2001"},"modified":"2014-05-05T04:16:16","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T04:16:16","slug":"scott-mcmahon-film-trooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amusednow.com\/blog\/scott-mcmahon-film-trooper\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott McMahon ~ Film Trooper"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Scott McMahon<\/p><\/div>\n

Featured filmmaker and actor Scott McMahon and I met on a Google+ filmmaker community. We\u2019d happily exchanged comments and shared posts for several months. Then one day, Scott shared a post about filming in the extreme cold conditions on Mt Hood and I realized that Scott lives in Portland, Oregon, same as me.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s always fun to take a social media relationship into real life. We have a lot in common; we\u2019re both trying to help artists become better business people.<\/p>\n

I appeared on his FilmTrooper.com podcast series: http:\/\/filmtrooper.com\/026-cynthia-kahn-amused-now-dot-com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Now, he\u2019s a featured artist on Amused Now.<\/p>\n

Before moving to Portland, Scott McMahon lived in Los Angeles. He went to film school, made several films, and was hired by Sony PlayStation to make cinematic movies for their platform. After he left Sony PlayStation, Scott tried to produce an independent comedy, but the economy had tanked.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, Scott discovered \u201cthere could be a way to make films anywhere and sell them online using online business and marketing techniques.\u201d For the past few years, Scott\u2019s been trying to figure out how to do just that.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, after working at Sony PlayStation, Scott had a big budget mindset. He\u2019d write a scene and realize, \u201cThis is too expensive. I just wrote a scene that\u2019s going to cost a half million dollars. It was a big challenge creatively to try and go smaller.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Dana

Dana Dae<\/p><\/div>\n

Scott McMahon recently released a feature film called The Cube<\/em><\/a>. He created the film on a $500 budget without a professional crew. The Cube<\/em><\/a> is a spiritual story about a couple who finds a red cube on their doorstep and throws it away.<\/p>\n

The idea came on the night of his wife\u2019s birthday. Scott decided to forget about all the stress at work and just enjoy the evening celebrating with his wife and their friends. He was totally inspired by their friend\u2019s apartment in Portland\u2019s Pearl District. When he came home, he couldn\u2019t sleep. \u201cThis story just popped in my head. By the next morning, I could see very clearly what The Cube<\/em><\/a> was going to be. I saw the beginning, middle and end. I wrote down the outline and realized that I could actually make this around my full-time job.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the story, it was important to have something to say. My mom is from Thailand and my father is Irish American from New York. I grew up with the Catholic faith and the Buddhist faith. The Cube<\/em><\/a> is an exploration of those theologies wrapped around a very supernatural object.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scott was also inspired by Richard Kelly\u2019s film The Box<\/em><\/a>. \u201cI liked The Box<\/em><\/a>, but it ended in such a downer. I wanted to make a new movie that had an uplifting ending.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scott planned to shoot the film at his friends\u2019 apartment, but they moved, so he ended up shooting the film at his own house. He starred in the film with Portland actress Dana Dae. Dana decided to go hiking in Nepal, so she forced Scott\u2019s hand to produce the film within a two-week timeframe. \u201cI didn\u2019t have a crew in place. I didn\u2019t know enough people here in Portland, so I put the camera on a tripod and moved all the equipment off to the side and jumped in front of the camera.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scott got so wrapped up in the technical aspects of production that he made some interesting mistakes and learned quite a few lessons. You definitely need to watch the video interview to learn more about how he filmed and edited The Cube<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Scott McMahon has two websites: FilmTrooper.com<\/a> and ArrowInnEntertainment.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"FilmFilmTrooper.com helps filmmakers become better entrepreneurs. Scott McMahon writes a lot about the concept of resource filmmaking, making films with just the resources that you have around you. Christopher J. Boghosian coined the phrase in his blog post I\u2019m a Nobody Filmmaker<\/em><\/a> for Ted Hope\u2019s website: Hope for Film<\/a>. Scott explained that Robert Rodriguez used the same approach when he filmed El mariachi<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThis stuff has been around forever. It\u2019s just taken forever for me to get to that place. It\u2019s a really big challenge to be creative with the limitations in front of you. The Cube<\/em><\/a> broke that seal for me. Now, I start seeing all sorts of stories all around me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m currently making a new film called The Latch Key<\/em>, and it all takes place in my home again. It\u2019s even smaller than the $500 The Cube<\/em><\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scott McMahon plans to release this film under Arrow Inn Entertainment. \u201cOnce I realized that digital distribution was available to filmmakers, artists, authors and musicians, that we can reach a global audience through the internet, I started my own studio.\u201d The business plan is to make films, web series and podcasts and digitally distribute them. This compliments Scott\u2019s Film Trooper educational platform.<\/p>\n

The idea is \u201cmake your films so inexpensively, it allows you the opportunity to make a profit down the line. Combine this with marketing and online business strategy and you can build a sustainable living through your art. Once you learn that you can be completely independent of the Hollywood system or any gatekeepers, if you can learn the basics of selling something online, then you go back, fine tune and supersize it later for maximum profit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scott spent years trying to reverse engineer and figure out what film buyers want, so he could create a product that he knew might sell. \u201cAs artists, sometimes that doesn\u2019t ring true to you.\u201d Scott advises, \u201cas long as an artist can really dig down deep and find something that means something to them, something that they are going to be passionate about, then that\u2019s what they should follow. No matter how crazy it sounds or whether it\u2019s going to make money.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing an artist is sometimes a curse. You\u2019re going to have this need to create something, to express yourself. You might as well spend that time creating something that rings true to you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou may want to find who your ideal fan is. What would you want to give them to make them happy or to change their lives? You can take your gifts and abilities and give them to that ideal fan. I can guarantee that ideal fan exists in droves, as long as you remain true to yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n

So true Scott McMahon!<\/p>\n

Watch the complete video interview on the Amused Now YouTube channel:\u00a0http:\/\/youtu.be\/96vg8mejM4Q<\/a><\/p>\n

Amused Now Featured Artist Series<\/p>\n

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