i thank you for joining us today my name is helen burton and i'm the host of this show skyrocket your business we have socrates are at a wall who will give us quest and i just want to remind you of my book skyrocket your business in thirty days while having a cup of coffee with alan and open the book to any page enjoy used and don't forget you caustic i went to a conference the last week and the king of spoke a speaker spoke and she was very very german and to greet people she reached out and made a difference and they all lived and i thought oh my god that's really fantastic so that night i got into bed and i thought about my day and i thought about one person i was going to get carried away and let the three people it really made me feel better when i went to sleep so i have a challenge for you try the exercise and let me know how you make out said i am so excited we have a great guest and his name is patrick mcdonald and patrick has experience and a background in creative filmmaking so i thought oh my god this will be great we'll learn about filmmaking and patrick is also director of my show and i wanted you to me patrick so thank you for and i want to present high school which is one of the best high schools in the world according to a couple magazines right so i feel very privileged going there and that i spent two years mercer county community college so he makes me look at all the time why did you become interested in film production it was a really cool story because the reasons i was little i was really into the power rangers ok so so it just opened like the whole world to me so i love creating like big stories big epic fantasy is what i do a great medium that i'm really proud of working and as a film so what i like chris story is make big you know grand stories i guess right just film is a great medium to get all my ideas across and just show people what my imagine it's like what my kind of lessons can be oh that's great i remember when my grandson ways around for me for he was into power ain't so right when i would pick him up from school and we spent time together and i took brenda how did you guys feel the same or different about it right so it's really just like if if i feel good about it i'm very passionate about i hope when people who watch it are the same way nia and i know that when you're working with me  sent this question please tell us the difference between a movie and documentary all right documentaries are movies but the difference between like a feature film and a documentary is a feature film is written and like director and they have a cast right and it could be fictional fantasy or realistic but move directors have their creative license to make it more dramatic and have more of an  testing they get real people these are real interviews right and they tell the story that's completely realistic no like dramatic dramatic invasion or anything it's just completely real  right and the people that are interested and they come to our meetings and they just learn what their position is and what they do all right and then we set up dates they and all the dates we get everything ready right and then there's also the process of casting or fell right we have on a site called backstage again where you write down your film and like a character bios right and whoever is interested and they had us think of the person and our lives and we were having you know little problem women and so think about first they had us think about what we wanted to tell that person you know and what you do realize you can see like oh i see where you're coming from right and then you're a little more gracious or nicer to them right exactly exactly and you can forget them yeah now and then in a way that that's really good now and and then we'll come back and we can talk about it and then i go back and i tweak it all there now and then i put it on my blog and then i get comments and i feel so good you know what that's it it's just something that you have to pursue if this is type of courses could a tick well first off like there are really any courses that can teach you how to be personable or how to be a good filmmaker right because it just comes naturally bright but you know try if you're really interested in film try go to a good film school right or a good communications for just learn everything you can about cameras lights people know but it's very important to you know be friendly that people can you know feel comfortable with you and that they want to work with yeah yeah yeah if you're good but if you're really good but are really women and children who are very creative and have a passion so we're going to learn about different things and we'll also have nonprofits and also business owners who are very passionate about their businesses so keep watching on my show and you know meet some very interesting gas and patrick i'll be  sharing with us you know what goes into making a film and also what the difference between a documentary and i found that's you know south thank you so much for joining