40 // Filmmaking with Maximilian Becht

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