The Muse team worked with Max and his film crew on the pilot episode of a new documentary series. Max joins Adam and Mark to talk about how making films compares to making software; why creative trust is the core of a great team; and why we should hire based on networks, portfolios, and auditions instead of CVs and interviews. Plus: 40 people stuck on a film shoot in the forest due to a forgotten shovel.

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Show notes

Maximilian Becht of Kosmovision
shooting day
post-production
E3
set runner
Film Academy Baden-Württemberg
Zellenflimmern (documentary on media inside prisons)
Making Movies
Create: a documentary series by Muse
watch pilot episode of Create with Katrin Friedmann
branded content
Marcus Hanisch (Create director)
location scouting
Jasper Techel (Create cameraperson)
Moritz Drath (Create sound and music)
professional network
After Effects
The Queen’s Gambit shot in Berlin
maker biographies
A Modest Genius (Charles Darwin biography)
Creativity, Inc. (Pixar founder autobiography)
Barbie and Ruth (Mattel founder biography)
film screening
the Hollywood model
gig sites
Christopher Nolan
wide angle shots
herding cats
production manager
“fix it in post"
the null hypothesis
suggest a protagonist for future episodes of Create

40 // Filmmaking with Maximilian Becht

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40 // Filmmaking with Maximilian Becht