I am attempting to break into the business with my first feature, after having participated in making several shorts of other people, helping out with production, and post production on them.
However, when it comes to writing my own script, or perfecting how to operate a camera, or other equipment, a lot of people will tell me to hire someone else to do it. They will say hire a writer, to do it for you, or hire a director to direct the movie for me, or hire a camera operator or boom operator, etc.
They say I should just hire pros and that way I don't have to do anything but produce, and leave the rest up to much more experienced people.
But if I do that, and produce only, I feel that I am not doing enough. It's hard to explain why, I just feel like I should be doing more, since filmmaking is my passion.
I mean a lot of directors do other things on set such as operating some of the equipment while shooting. And some do a lot of the post, such as the editing, other post duties.
But a lot of people still tell me to just produce only, and get others to do everything else. Do you think I should and it does make things easier? Cause I have this feeling that it could easily make things more complicated in a way. What do you think?
However, when it comes to writing my own script, or perfecting how to operate a camera, or other equipment, a lot of people will tell me to hire someone else to do it. They will say hire a writer, to do it for you, or hire a director to direct the movie for me, or hire a camera operator or boom operator, etc.
They say I should just hire pros and that way I don't have to do anything but produce, and leave the rest up to much more experienced people.
But if I do that, and produce only, I feel that I am not doing enough. It's hard to explain why, I just feel like I should be doing more, since filmmaking is my passion.
I mean a lot of directors do other things on set such as operating some of the equipment while shooting. And some do a lot of the post, such as the editing, other post duties.
But a lot of people still tell me to just produce only, and get others to do everything else. Do you think I should and it does make things easier? Cause I have this feeling that it could easily make things more complicated in a way. What do you think?