PODCAST: 4x Grammy Nominee Grace Potter On Making DIY Music Videos & Performing With The Rolling Stones

In this episode, I’m joined by four-time Grammy nominee Grace Potter to talk about her new record Trespasser, the microfilm series she built alongside it, and the long road back to the film career she walked away from at nineteen.

Grace left film school to become a rock star, signed to Disney in 2005, and wrote the song that closes Tangled, but she never stopped writing screenplays or thinking like a filmmaker. Her way back in started with a music video she wrote and directed herself, and she’s been shooting ever since.

Throughout the interview we get into her guerrilla approach to production, why she’s trespassed on more locations than she can count, and what Mick Jagger taught her about instinct you have to earn.

Topics covered include:

• Leaving film school to become a rock star
• Signing with Disney and writing the song that ends Tangled
• How songwriting and screenwriting use the same muscle
• Why the first idea is usually the right one
• Directing her first music video, and the broken rib that followed
• Guerrilla shooting, trespassing on locations, and working fast 
• Trusting the goosebumps as your creative compass
• The Viper Room pitch that launched her film career
• What Mick Jagger’s silver jacket says about preparation and instinct
• Auditioning actors instead of musicians to build her band
• Why she chose microfilms over another music video
• Much More!

This is Episode 282: 4x Grammy Nominee Grace Potter On Making DIY Music Videos & Performing With The Rolling Stones

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Links from the show:

Grace Potter – Website

Grace Potter – Album & Micro Series Links

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