Making Sundance and other film festivals a REALITY

[ccortez]

trying to become famous and show the world how good and professional you are is never a good motivation - trying to show the world what you see and how you feel about it is!... if they understand it or not isnt within your power though.

another way to say what just christoph just said:

(great advice i got as a kid:)

there are two types of people, those who want to DO something and those who want to BE something.

which are you?

(hint: the desire to "be a filmmaker" is less useful than the drive to "make a movie".)

[BigBeaner]

I think you need to rethink what I said about criticism and advice. It won't be always what you wanted and I don't want you to not create at all. Thats the single thing I want us all to be able to do. After all you need a product to sell to the audience first, then start thinking out.

Basically from my own experience that I have witnessed of a fellow rival in high school was when he was 15 he wrote a 63 page long script and felt better than anyone else in the world. Script was first off horrible and boring sophomoric jokes and overly complicated. Anyways, he spent 4 years chasing this dream but constantly fell for the same production pitfalls. During that time period I must have made 15 shorts and actually got out there and he had 4-5 failed partially shot footage. Sometimes you just bite off more than you can chew but the most important thing is to keep producing and learning. Now after all this time when he looks back on that movie, he just gets angry and embarassed. It's just hard in the beginning to have good actors dedicated let alone money to fund the whole thing.

I don't mean to stand here and speak for everyone out on the board but we're telling you this so you do learn and will succeed. Maybe not as fast as you or ourselves would like but hey, it's better than nothing. Also because we know and have seen murphey's law in which anything can happen during production that just bogs things up and saps up the fun. Enthusiasm is good but a dose of realism is needed to keep your feet on the ground when such occasions arise. I think it would be worst for you to go out there and give it your all and expect great things handed to you and get nothing and give up than have some sort of fair warning about what to expect so you do keep producing.

Find some Juniors or Senior film students and talk with them. Or call up or write to a film school's teacher and ask them what they think and how things happen to them/their students. Also attend a film festival or two, even if you have already. It'll be good no matter what. Who knows, maybe you'll also get to work on a film also and the extra experience coupled with your internship is always good.

edit this is to explain where I'm coming from to rid whatever negative connotations I didn't mean that one can misread.

[plutone]

Don't be so rough on this guy. He's full of entusiasm.

[Uppsala BildTeknik]

Don't be so rough on this guy. He's full of entusiasm.

He also seems to have an attitude problem (perhaps), he definetly needs to learn how to take critic in a positive way. Nobody has been an asshole towards him and he seems to get mad? For what reason?

I am set out to please me and every one who sees it, whats wrong with that? icon_mad.gif .....

My main goal is to make something that breaks boundaries (like the mainly adult indie circuit and letting teens views in) and sets the pace for teen indie filmmakers. OKAY. icon_mad.gif .....

I think that you all have forgotten that I have viewed millions of true indie films and have worked with professional film/video people. I think the book is great for a curious teen. (But don’t think I am some short of expert but I know more then this book can provide.) .....

“Don’t Bring Me Down” That’s all I have to say to you. Have some support for Christ sake. icon_mad.gif

It sounds like you don´t need advice (at least in your opinion), why would you ask for something and then get mad when people give you their thoughts and advice?

If you don´t like the advice just don´t follow it, it really isn´t that complicated you know.

The way you are behaving I would think twice before wasting my time giving you advice. Don´t be an asshole, you won´t gain any respect or get good advice if you do, not here and not in real life. Or perhaps you just had a really bad day???

If someone who has seen one of your shorts says "I didn´t think this was so good." will you reply "Fuck off you idiot, I will win my academy award with this one, you hear! " or "OK, I really like it. What would you want to be different, what can I do better next time?"

[tlatosmd]

On a similar note, who else is reminded of The Who's My generation when reading Film-Idaho's posts? ;)

[paul]

"teenage Super 8 junkie"

I think that sounds cool ! It really sound great, especially in 2005..

Paul

[BigBeaner]

the new movie maker magazine featuring the beautiful mug of werner herzog has an article on "Teen Film Revolution" got some good stuff. Too bad I have least then a month left to being a teenager but whatever, I'm pay boatloads for college.