Learn Film Making - Be A Jack-Of-All-Trades and Master Them All

When I started my film career I'm only 10 years. My father saw that I had a 8mm movie camera, movie clips / viewers access to your projector.

while my father certainly taught me a lot about the film process (as a member of a local film club and making commercials for film television station he worked for), I discovered that I had to learn a lot on their own. Which, over the years since I. I have never had a chance to go to film and television school.

I think that is why I could be called a "jack of all trades" in the business of audio visual media and film in particular. I would also like to think that I have mastered some of these skills.

Over the years technology has changed (Power Point presentations, slide shows, and instead of fixed costs, for example), the client's needs have changed and I decided to specialize in his first love - film ... the main difference is that today doing digital video production, instead of film and edited on a computer with a non-linear editing software.

When I hire the crew as needed to help me record a video program I usually try to do as much of the rest of the technical work I like mogu.Razlog for it three times. First, it allows me the creative control of the project (within my client's guidelines of course). Secondly, I think of my project as an artistic effort and I am as an artist. It seems darn fun! Third, I'm cheap son-of-the-top! Why pay someone else to do something they can do pretty well?

So, over the years I've honed some very specific skills that allow me to take all or most of the roles involved in video production program.

I recently produced a documentary for the freebie Richmond Artists Guild, of documenting their efforts to create the big picture speed skaters to become part of the display in the Richmond City Hall during the Winter Olympics 2010th That was my contribution to the Richmond Artists Guild, City of Richmond, which is hosted on display at City Hall, Canadian speed skating and the Olympics themselves. Also, -. Not bad for an old portfolio

My job was to cook a documentary film showing the process of drawing, painting through the study, the evaluation of images for making the final selection of images that will be part of the screen, which included the ancient and modern skates, ice skating suits and historical data.

to return to the "jack of all trades" theme, here are all the hats I had to wear for the completion of this project:

1 Production Coordinator (consultation with the Canadian speed skating, and members of the group life drawing, the lining of the recording dates of artists' studios, determining who should be interviewed on camera, getting all those pesky release forms signed, etc. ).

2 Scenarist (because I was alone in this project and I am experienced enough to do this, the script was never written. I designed the course and kept that in mind while shooting ).

3 Camera operators (mainly by hand and luckily I had developed enough skill with a hand-held camera that most of the shots look pretty stable. I am, however, use a tripod to survey artists in their studios as I thought at least shake would be confusing for the audience.)

4 Interviewer (behind the camera ).

5 Lighting technician (only one light is used in the study of artists - the rest is taken under available light, so it's not much challenge ).

6 Sound technician (again, not much challenge as most of the sound is recorded with the camera microphone. A few interviews done with a wireless lapel microphone .).

7 General editing (including standard editing transitions, titles, lower thirds, etc. ).

I do not want to sound too easy. This is the lion's share of work on this program and where all the creative decisions.

8 Animation (keyframe animation pictures and titles ).

9 Music composition and production (OK, my mother is a musician and music teacher I have strengths and I would often compose, arrange and perform their music -. Because I'm cheap that Turkey does not like paying for all the things you can do it myself).

10 Voice-over narrator (my father is a radio personality before he got on TV. He had a great voice and he taught me to use my voice when I entered radio as a youngster. Narrated by I literally thousands of television and radio promos, educational and corporate programs and live events as MC. it is a very useful skill to ).

11 Designing graphics for the DVD label.

12 DVD Authoring (this one was pretty easy, but sometimes they require a chapter, several applications and lots of menu links ).

, man, not my head warm under all those hats. As this was a freebie I had no choice ... I had to do everything yourself. This is the most fun I've had in years!

I'm currently learning everything I can about the 3D illustrations and animations, creating motion backgrounds and other special effects and the ex-student partner, expanding their knowledge of the documentary genre.

If you really want to become the perfect director you have to learn everything you can about every aspect of film art.