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any experience is good experience; but one of the most important things filmmakers can learn from theatre is working with the actors, even if you're an aspiring film-director staging a play will help you a lot; being a technician might be a good start, since you get to see how people work there...

thank you for posting this! Actually, I recently thought about the punching sounds in Fight Club, which I liked a lot because of how "raw" and violent they sound without being too unrealistic.

Yes.

congratulations! shooting film is expensive, but definitely worth it if you know what you're doing.

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sure, I can imagine directing someone else's script too, but I can't imagine seeing my script directed from another person.

I don't know any "i'm an artist" filmmakers, but the job of the director is to make sure that the crew/actors/etc. help turning his/her vision into a film, so if they start giving their opinions on the film that imho usually means that the director wasn't able to tell what he wants. In fact the...

this thread just reminded me of something Jarmusch once said: "A few years back, I saw a biopic about a famous American abstract expressionist artist. And you know what? It really horrified me. All they did was reduce his life to the big dramatic moments you could pick out of any biography. If...

agreed :yes:

Let me say that I really don't want to offend anyone with my take on films like Avatar, especially not you CrackerFunk since that movie seems to mean a lot to you; however there's nothing wrong with an open but friendly discussion. Since you started off with comparing films to food, let me do...

Again the idea that financial success is an indicator for quality. In my opinion the term "mass appeal" shows already a really uncritical attitude towards products of the culture industry, as it suggests that the success of Hollywood movies is somehow democratically legitimated, and that's imho...

so what you're saying is that the financial success of a film tells us about its "artistic" quality? art is communication, true. but a monologue is not communication. the kind of films cameron makes is meant to entertain people, not to provoke thought and responses, his films are meant to be...

Michael Haneke made his first TV only film at the age of 31, and his first film for cinema at 47. Pier Paolo Pasolini made his first film when he was 39. Robert Bresson was 33 when he made his first short film. . . . etc. etc. So...no you are not too old.

thank you for the manual, Buddy Greenfield. For some reason the seller gave me the Manual for the Canon 1014 which apparently is slightly different. What I intend to do is, to shoot one or more short films with this camera. I already did a short film on super 8 with another camera and even...

yess! I bought this baby for 25€ (=31,7138$), can you believe that? motor is running, autozoom works, and the seller added an old Agfa Moviechrome cartridge for free. Had no time to test it thoroughly yet, but everything's looking good so far. Though this thread is primarily about me...

I don't know about the countries you mentioned, but in Germany and Austria there are two kinds of "film schools". The first is similar to those in the US, I believe. There's no qualifying exam, you enroll, pay (a lot!) and go there for a couple of years. You can, however, also study film at the...

you mean Fred Zinnemann

Dogme was above all a marketing gag; advertisement for the involved directors. The idea that a film does not need more than a camera and actors is there in Dogme 95. In both "movements" however, the "look" is because of limitations, in the "mumblecore"-movement because of financial reasons, in...

I am a fan of low budget filmmaking, and thus I find that people who break the aesthetic rules of studio-filmmaking make a step into the right direction; however the Dogme 95 movement (though mostly a publicity gag) did this already 15 years ago, preaching exactly the same thing, namely...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8XVayMChGc