Anyone can learn to be a filmmaker. Filmmaking is easy. Filmmaking is not rocket science. Everything about filmmaking is extremely easy to learn. Anyone can do it if they wish.
The challenge of learning filmmaking. The challenge is filmmaking requires learning a huge number of skills. Each skill is easy to learn but the number of things you must learn is huge. If you want to be an independent filmmaker, you must learn the equivalent of 20 different careers. Even if you are a fast learner, it can take you years to learn everything.
Telling a story: In a dramatic motion picture, the story is told by many people. The cinematographer tells the story with the camera. The lighting person tells the story with lighting. The film composer tells the story with music. The actors tell the story with action and dialog. The editor tells the story with editing. The sound designer tells the story with sound.
You have to learn all of this and as an independent filmmaker, you have to learn to all of these skills.
If you fail to learn even one of these skills, people will notice and be turned off by your movie. You must learn everything!!!!
Here are some places to learn the skills:
- Action/Cut Directed By Seminars - Weekend workshops on the directing process for filmmakers, writers, actors, production staff, and film students.
- Brooks Weekend Workshops - Designed for amateur and professional photographers and filmmakers. Offering a variety of one and two day training courses covering web page creation, FLASH, digital film, and video.
- D. Nightingale & Associates - Provides professional development courses and special events?for the film and television industries.
- DGA Assistant Director Training Program
- Edit Center, The - Teaches the art of editing in a six-week course. Learn to use FinalCut Pro and cut an independent feature film in class.
- Film School Online - Workshop teaches professional moviemaking from script to screen. Site includes information on film schools and digital filmmaking.
- Filmmakers Filmmaker, A - Feature film production company, lab services, distribution, 35mm raw stock, networking, cinematography, film marketing and festival information.
- Flash Forward - Intensive month-long workshop designed to produce improved career results for people in the entertainment industry.
- Fledgling Films - Nonprofit media arts education organisation and independent film production company. Also offers an annual intensive media writing and production programme for teenagers.
- Melbourne University Summer School in Film Making - Taught on campus by leading Australian film industry professionals in association with the Cinema Studies Programme.
- New York Film Academy: Summer Camps - Offers hands-on intensive film, acting, animation, and digital film summer camps in NYC, Hollywood, Harvard, Princeton, Florence, Paris, and London.
- Power Image Workshop - Offers Final Cut Pro, Avid Xpress, After Effects, and DVD Studio Pro classes in New York City.
- UCLA Extension: Entertainment Studies - Offers certificate training in directing, acting, cinematography, post-production, film theory, and more.
- Videomaker Conferences - Seminars covering camcorders, digital editing, lighting, sound, and streaming techniques for creating quality video.
- Videomaker Workshops - 3-day basic and advanced workshops in video production, editing, camcorder, lighting, streaming, and audio techniques for creating digital video.
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