Hello everyone,
As always, when I have a question involving filmmaking I come here for advice and opinions.
I'm in an engineering school and this year I'm the president of the "cinema club". Last year, the club wasn't very active and this year I decided to inject in it some life. So I got active, barely getting sleep or personal time in the very first days and weeks of the school year.
The first day, I was shooting interviews of the freshmen, asking them why they came to our school. The same day, I projected a little welcome video I shot two days before and edited by then. This was by far the most complicated thing I had to do and I was so happy I pulled it off (it's derived from a famous Canal+ show) and I received a lot of congratulations and recognition.
Then, someone came to me asking me to shoot a video to present her club. I shot a few interviews of members, recorded a voice over and edited it in her presence in about 2 hours. It looked great, especially compared to the crap the other clubs had.
Now for my own club presentation, I had to make a short film. I mean it's a cinema club...
So I wrote two pages and a half, we shot it on tuesday, edited on wednesday and shown on thursday. There were a hell of lot of issues and I even had to show them something that was unifnished and buggy but it still was fun and it made my point (i'll be showing you the flick once it's complete. It has lots of flaws but still holds value).
After that, I lot of people came to me wanting to join in the club and that's why I'm here.
I have no idea how to organize this. I know I want to make as many shorts as possible and learn from every one of them. I may need some people for acting, holding reflectors, booming and if possible holding the camera so I can direct.
But most of them told me they're interested by the script part or the editing/VFX. I can't do anything for them for the later, I learned with Internet and I can give them access to tutorials and softwares but that's it, the rest is up to them. For the scenarios, I usually develop my own, script them myself and edit them by myself too. No one is interested by learning lighting, sound, camera work.
In a nutshell : I have access to a lot of human ressources but have no idea how to use it except for holding reflectors..
As always, when I have a question involving filmmaking I come here for advice and opinions.
I'm in an engineering school and this year I'm the president of the "cinema club". Last year, the club wasn't very active and this year I decided to inject in it some life. So I got active, barely getting sleep or personal time in the very first days and weeks of the school year.
The first day, I was shooting interviews of the freshmen, asking them why they came to our school. The same day, I projected a little welcome video I shot two days before and edited by then. This was by far the most complicated thing I had to do and I was so happy I pulled it off (it's derived from a famous Canal+ show) and I received a lot of congratulations and recognition.
Then, someone came to me asking me to shoot a video to present her club. I shot a few interviews of members, recorded a voice over and edited it in her presence in about 2 hours. It looked great, especially compared to the crap the other clubs had.
Now for my own club presentation, I had to make a short film. I mean it's a cinema club...
So I wrote two pages and a half, we shot it on tuesday, edited on wednesday and shown on thursday. There were a hell of lot of issues and I even had to show them something that was unifnished and buggy but it still was fun and it made my point (i'll be showing you the flick once it's complete. It has lots of flaws but still holds value).
After that, I lot of people came to me wanting to join in the club and that's why I'm here.
I have no idea how to organize this. I know I want to make as many shorts as possible and learn from every one of them. I may need some people for acting, holding reflectors, booming and if possible holding the camera so I can direct.
But most of them told me they're interested by the script part or the editing/VFX. I can't do anything for them for the later, I learned with Internet and I can give them access to tutorials and softwares but that's it, the rest is up to them. For the scenarios, I usually develop my own, script them myself and edit them by myself too. No one is interested by learning lighting, sound, camera work.
In a nutshell : I have access to a lot of human ressources but have no idea how to use it except for holding reflectors..