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Adam William Ward, Filmmaker/Actor: Producer’s job, that’s the crazy thing about producing, so many people don’t know what a producer is and it’s because producer means so many things.
Film Courage: Let’s imagine you had to teach a class on producing a movie. Where would you start?
Adam: Oh gosh, you could start a million different places. Just producing. let’s X out directing and other things.
–What’s the budget? Figure out what the budget is, where can you cut costs? I think cost would be the first thing as a producer.
-I’m sad to say it but you shouldn’t really pay for one location.
If you’re doing an independent film with no money I hear people paying for locations. I would literally write down a location because the show had 100 locations. Bad Advice had at least 100 locations. Write down the location and I would literally go to 30 different places until somebody would say Yeah, you can film here. Each location was like that.
As a producer you have to look at places where you don’t have to spend money. You can do anything for any amount of money. That’s the hardest part when somebody’s like Well, how much money do you need? and I’m thinking that’s an impossible question to answer because whatever money you have that’s the money you need. You got what you got. Stop looking and start doing. You have what you have.
I mean there’s certain things that obviously…(Watch the video interview on YouTube here).
MORE VIDEOS WITH ADAM WILLIAM WARD
WATCH ‘BAD ADVICE’
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WATCH ‘WALLY GOT WASTED’
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About:
Adam is a Jewish-American born in Abington, Pennsylvania who grew up in Bucks County, PA. At age twelve his family relocated to Roseburg, Oregon; a new and unfamiliar small town. As the middle child of three, Adam realized he had to stand out to gain any measure of attention, if he wanted his rightful place at the dinner table. His antics started purely as a way to amuse his family, but quickly blossomed into a desire to entertain a bigger audience. This desire, however, was abated by a nearly crippling case of stage fright that lasted until he joined his high school’s drama program as a teenager. Through his teacher and classmates’ encouragement, Adam gradually let go and confronted his fear. It seemed to work. After receiving much local acclaim in his first year on stage, his high school named the A-Ward Award after him and it is still given annually to the most outstanding newcomer. It was because of this success Ward pursued his love of film as an undergrad at Hawaii Pacific University where he graduated with a Communications Degree. After graduating from college, Ward made his way to Hollywood! During his first day in town, he used his charm to land a position in post production at Dreamworks. From there, he segued to a gig working for Todd Phillips at Warner Brothers. But pursuing a career made him temporarily lose sight of his dream (dream of what?) It wasn’t until Ward bumped into Jimmy Smits at LAX that he was convinced to go back and study acting again. At Smits’ recommendation, he began studying at the Joanne Baron DW School of Acting during which he found time to star in eleven short films. The following year ward was a lead in three independent features. But it wasn’t until the year 2011 Ward, took his destiny in his own hands and wrote, directed and starred in a tv comedy called, “Three Guys and a Couch” (On Amazon Prime). In 2013 wrote Directed and Starred in “Parole Officers” another tv pilot. (On Amazon Prime). Later in 2014 Ward co-wrote a feature film called, “Wally Got Wasted”. [See more of Adam’s bio on IMDB]
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