If I shoot random but interesting things from my phone camera. Plan to make a movie without a story. What does it make me? A Stupid man with phone or something else? I can never pay to go to film school. I'm 23 years old. Being a film director is my dream. A big one. Maybe impossible. I still don't know. I have to go a long way.
Filmmaking / Directing : Am I wasting my time? by Rafsan Mahmud
Am I wasting my time?
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Hi, You are a filmmaker. Start with what you have and where you are at. I am using a beat up iPad mini - check out this site http://www.nobudgetfilmschool.com/
Thank you, Sir.
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Filmmaking and Directing is a long term plan and a way of living mate. You can't beat yourself up that, at 23, you are only shooting on an iPhone and aren't going to film school. At least you have something to shoot on and the Internet is full of resources to teach you. The best advice is to challenge yourself to shoot a scene and cut it together, then review it and see what you could do better. Learn story! Trust me. A little hint: someone is trying to get something and something/someone is getting in the way. How they overcome this is unique to that character and is what the audience will want to see.
You gave me courage Mr. James. Thank you.
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You might give some thought to what you really like to do. Is it just taking the pictures? Perhaps you're interested in cinematography and there is a lot of free information on line about that. Or is taking the pictures your way of getting to tell a story which is what you really like. Your comment about being interested in directing certainly says that. If so, I think you need to move on from taking pictures at random to doing something planned. Write a short script of some kind. Start to think about telling a story on film which you worked out in advance because realistically that's what directors do. Can the story change as you shoot it? Of course. But begin to think in story telling terms.
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I think you're wasting your time making a movie without story. But you can make a very interesting, creative movie with your phone camera. The camera is a minor part in a good, enjoyable movie.