Hi guys.
I'm relatively new to the film making game only a few year but I did want to be a filmmaker when I was a kid but didn't really get a chance to.
Anyway my girlfriend and I figured out that we both loved filmmaking and had wanted to shoot stuff forever so we decided why not lean a little more about it. Well fast forward a few years and we've shot quite a few thing most of which have been done without any funding and things are moving along to bigger and bigger projects and new obstacles to overcome.
Recently we started working on a cooperative project that is kind of similar to one of projects and things aren't going as smoothly as they do with our own projects.
Well it got me thinking does being a jack of all trades make you a better filmmaker or not?
Myself I've done so many things in my life that it's hard to say what I have done.
So when we shoot stuff I usually knew and figure out a lot of stuff by ourselves.
It got me thinking last night when I was designing a poster for one of our projects and started thinking why I'm doing this myself when we have someone on this project who would do this. The answer was that they just didn't see my creative idea that I had and since it was a cooperative project I didn't get the chance to pick my own people.
Dan MaxXx thanks and yes it's true. Moste of the time you have to do whatever you have to do to finish a project.
But the thing is that I know the saying "Jack of all trades, master of none" I know quite few people that are Jacks of a lot of trades but at the same time they are also masters of a lot of those trades or at least a lot above average. Which kind of contradicts the saying.
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Usually what I've encountered is on no-budget shoots you're "Wearing many hats" ... i.e. doing different jobs to get done and growing your skill-set. Go for it!
Lindbergh Hollingsworth thank you and you're right. It's one of the things that I've always loved learning new things and best of all putting them to use. Especially now in filmmaking.
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Every filmmaker begins their journey as a jack-of-all-trades. Low to no-budget projects call for that type of execution. There are obvious downfalls to wearing too many hats, but it does allow you to experience all of the aspects of filmmaking and that gained understanding is priceless. I was just speaking to my wife about this exact concept. The goal we all strive for is to, of course, obtain mastery in a specific skill set. However, whether it's due to the budget of a project or your own curiosity, I don't see it as a downfall to have some experience as a Jack-of-all-trades.
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Jon Benson I agree with you completely. I'm that way I love learning something new and I think that having knowledge in many different areas make me a better filmmaker.