First of all I want to say that from now on I’m planning on blogging nearly everyday about my film making journey. I’ve been busy working on other projects but now I  think I can devote my full attention to my film project. It’s going to need it.

In order to make my film I figure I’m going to need three things:

• Interviews and stories from average Americans
• Interviews with noted Authors and Experts
• As much free imagery and video as I can get from government agencies / companies etc.

The first two I’m not so concerned about. When I set up interviews with people like Angelo Codevilla I’m planning on going to them. From there I’ll do man on the street interviews to get the average Americans thoughts. However now that I think about it if I could set up interviews with people who have a real “American Dream” type story that would be great too. Hopefully my social networking plan will allow me to reveal such people in time.

Getting free imagery / video is going to be critical. However all  government agencies, not to mention tourism bureau’s etc have royalty free images and video that I could potentially use. Big corporations like GE, Microsoft, GM etc should also have free stuff I could use to help me construct my film. One aspect I am going to want to stress is American innovation. Having images of cars flowing off the assembly line or Microsoft computers should really help this. Tomorrow this is going to be my main goal.

I actually got this idea from Phelim McAleer who made the documentary “Not Evil Just Wrong”. I was actually lucky enough to meet him when he premiered his movie in Vancouver. I’ll have more to say on this in the future.

Currently I’m actually writing an outline for my movie which I’m hoping will save me a lot of time down the rode. I’m also reading Paul Rahe’s book “Soft Despotism – Democracies Drift”. I know that Peter Robinson is going to be interviewing Professor Rahe on Uncommon Knowledge this week, so I’ll definitely be tuning in for that.

I know this post has been a bit of a mish mash of ideas. Future posts should be much more focused. Right now my mind is just whirling with possibilities and things I need to do. One step at a time.

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