Hey everyone,
I was meaning to get to this sooner but my day job and recently shooting a music video has kept me away. I have some time now so I wanted to say hello.
I was enlightened to this site by Peter John Ross of sonnyboo.com. What brought me to this site was selfish promotion of the film fest I am working on located in Chicago (The Chicago "Really" Short Film Fest). I created the fest last year in order to showcase my work.
At the time I had two short films that were in post porduction and I wanted a venue to show the films off for the cast and crew, but I didn't want to invite everyone out for a half hour of screen time. The films were 15 and 12 minutes each. I wanted to make a night out of it. I wanted live music, drinking, food, in short I wanted it to be a fun night. So I thought "lets do it".
Lets have some fun, listen to bands, show my films and the films of others and make a night out of it. It was a great night! Everyone from the filmmakers, to the bands, to the people that helped me out and especially the audiance made it work. Right after we were done with the show we were asked to make a return the following year...and here I am trying to spread the word to as many filmmakers as I can.
As for me, I am one of those shlops who didn't go to film school. My production partner and I thought about going to film school but we thought lets use the time and money to just shot a film, and so we did. Our first film was a feature shot on 16mm. What better way to learn than to go in and get your hands dirty? Since then I've been or worked on other productions from feature films, to shorts, to music videos. And I'm still learning!
Well that's me in a nut shell.
Rick
I was meaning to get to this sooner but my day job and recently shooting a music video has kept me away. I have some time now so I wanted to say hello.
I was enlightened to this site by Peter John Ross of sonnyboo.com. What brought me to this site was selfish promotion of the film fest I am working on located in Chicago (The Chicago "Really" Short Film Fest). I created the fest last year in order to showcase my work.
At the time I had two short films that were in post porduction and I wanted a venue to show the films off for the cast and crew, but I didn't want to invite everyone out for a half hour of screen time. The films were 15 and 12 minutes each. I wanted to make a night out of it. I wanted live music, drinking, food, in short I wanted it to be a fun night. So I thought "lets do it".
Lets have some fun, listen to bands, show my films and the films of others and make a night out of it. It was a great night! Everyone from the filmmakers, to the bands, to the people that helped me out and especially the audiance made it work. Right after we were done with the show we were asked to make a return the following year...and here I am trying to spread the word to as many filmmakers as I can.
As for me, I am one of those shlops who didn't go to film school. My production partner and I thought about going to film school but we thought lets use the time and money to just shot a film, and so we did. Our first film was a feature shot on 16mm. What better way to learn than to go in and get your hands dirty? Since then I've been or worked on other productions from feature films, to shorts, to music videos. And I'm still learning!
Well that's me in a nut shell.
Rick
to Indietalk, Catherine!