In time I plan to examine the certain areas you can chose in the industry such as writing and directing your own stuff to producing other peoples ideas, or capturing the vision from a director through a camera that your controlling. Some people are talented in one area where as some people stay away from certain areas because they feel that they couldn't handle the pressure but so far I've learnt that when it comes to being a filmmaker you end up in all these areas.
A poet needs a pen, a painter needs a brush
but a film director needs a whole army.
(Orson Wells)
After shooting my first written short towards the end of college I realised it takes more than four classmates to help make your vision. As I wrote that script I saw it going places festivals the lot, when it came to shooting it, it wasn't as easy as I thought. I wanted to have people who where pursuing the career of an actor/actress so it didn't seem studenty and it just so happened in the script I had 6 characters of all different ages with several locations and a deadline of two weeks.
Nightmare it was, and since then I've spent time concentrating on my scripts doing odd bits of camera work on the side but not much. (I'll show you later in other posts how when starting out on minimal budget, scripts have to be clever but tighter to succeed) Now I'm back to filming again and it's great, I can't believe I left it so long, the buzz of never knowing what cold happen to affect your shoot and how your going to deal with it.
I hope whoever reads this can use any of my advice, at the moment I'm not sure if independence is the best way to go or to send and send CV's to become a runner for some London production team being a bitch until they give you the chance to do what you want to do. Nothing against being a runner though because it is something I would actually like to do, seeing how film is made professionally an all but in this day and age we have the technology to make films at home and I think it's the best way to keep the creative juices flowing.
