075 Working Blind for a Year (Intuition Really Helps) with Cameo Wood

Cameo Wood talks about “Working Blind for a Year (Intuition Really Helps)” in this episode of the Intuitive Leadership Mastery Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

Here are some of the topics discussed in the podcast:

• How she improved her director’s intuition
  • watching lots of movies for what they did good or bad.
  • Shooting on film vs digital. Film - did I feel I got the shot?
• The intuitive Movie Producer
  • How much can I spend on this movie to make money or make my next movie (connections)?
  • An intuitive sense of it is a cost or an investment.
  • Hiring
    • Immediate knowing about an actor
    • Hiring from desperation → disaster
      • Lower expectations and planning for it
  • Focus of my attention
• Script Writing
  • Balance two hats - artist dream and cost of scene
  • WWIT for someone in the far future come back to face civil rights trials
    • Spirit of Yes x Yes x Yes
• Distribution
  • Intuition if it will make both of us money
  • Having a sense of what I like as an individual, and what others will like
  • Not wanting to quantify taste, but having a gut feeling of what will be wanted and loved a year from now
• Story telling - intuition that the audience emotions will become
  • Lighting, camera angle, acting, script, music, custom
  • A year’s delay from shooting to film is a year
  • 20 days of shooting
  • A year of developing, composing music, editing
• Removing your bias from your intuition
• Recalibrating your intuition
  • Ok making mistakes and learning from it
  • Mentors “Why did you make that choice?”
• She takes acting classes so she has more resources to draw on for a scene or to help an actor give the performance I need. That conveys well on the screen. What to say to them in the moment.
• Who is bringing the most joy and light to this aspect of the project
• Story arc birth, creating, releasing.
• The unknown pivotal moment in the movie
• Why are you proud to use your business intuition?
  • Practicing the role of the people you are guiding
  • Take classes in acting
  • Do other jobs that I hiring for
  • Preparedness
  • That inner voice that tells you when something is working and will work once all the pieces of the movie are put together
  • Iterative - but also built on intuition and gut instinct
• WWIT to make business intuition more openly used this year?
  • 4 person advisory board in my mind - a gut check on my guy check

Mentioned in this episode

• “You are blind the whole time until the day the film comes out"
• IMDB
• Jonathan Nolan
• Rachel Morrison
• An animatic (paper prototype storyboard)
• “Reservoir Dogs” movie
• “Signs” movie

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Cameo wrote, produced, and directed "Real Artists", a narrative thriller about Artificial Intelligence and the future of filmmaking. Cameo Wood fell in love with movies at the age of seven when she saw Amadeus on the big screen, and she has been making films ever since. At the age of ten, Cameo began writing epic adventures, and shooting scenes on still photos. She began her film education when she was 12 and worked full time at the family video store and was a camera operator and editor for the weekly high school television show. Originally from Pittsfield, Massachusetts, she now lives in San Francisco.

Cameo Wood's science fiction homage to Jonathan Nolan, Jennifer Phang, and the intersection of bioethics and business is an exquisitely produced short film. Stunning images, lean writing, inspired casting, and a seemingly effortless deftness at storytelling create a this stunning film.

Wood considers short films as "tiny stories, perfectly crafted," which fairly sums up this film's ultimate effect on the viewer. Produced with help from Kodak, "Real Artists" perfectly pushes the boundaries of the short film format, delivering feature-length emotional impact and unforgettable visual style in 12 minutes.

Her first for into directing, writing, and producing, Wood has more in store for us in the future, noting, "I've wanted to make films for such a long time; now that we’ve received such kind and enthusiastic response to REAL ARTISTS, I have the confidence to nurture my ambitions.

Learn more about Cameo Wood at:

• Charming Stranger - Press Kits 
• Website 
• Press 
• Real Artists 
• Atavist