This is my first post, and who I am!
My name is Trevor Irwin. I'm 19 years old and have been in love with filmmaking my entire life. Having recently came into adulthood however, I'm taking drastic and serious steps towards beginning a career. I'm here to get ideas and advice from the community.
About me:
- I am in love with almost the entire filmmaking process. From pre-production to the editing room. I am very hands on with my work, and to relate it to a successful filmmaker, I'd compare myself to the "one man film crew" philosophy that Robert Rodriguez uses in his films.
- I do it all because I love it. I enjoy writing, directing, acting, editing, camerawork, effects, anything and everything I can get at, I'll do. Even if I get a large budget where I can hire people to do such jobs, I still plan on being a big part of each of those roles.
- I am in college right now, but I feel like it was a huge mistake. I should have been pursuing film from the get go instead of wasting and money (student loans) and time going to school. I guess my main issue with school is that I'm very intelligent but I lack the focus and organization for school. (IE. I ace all my tests but get C's and below for missing assignments/late work.) Still, I'm only about a semester away from and associates degree, so I'm at least going to stick it out for that since I'm already there.
- My greatest talent is writing. I have always been a gifted writer and I have a great appreciation for language. I thrive on creativity and coming up with something different.
- I was a part of a pretty good news program in high school. I'm not talking $50 cameras and windows movie maker. They had a good budget and we worked with good equipment. I learned a lot of good technical skills there. The basics of filmmaking and editing. The rest of my knowledge would be anything and everything I could suck up from special features in films. You'd be amazed at the wealth of knowledge if you've never watched any... they're goldmines.
Goals:
1.) First and foremost, I have one feature film that I want to be my debut once I can get funding for a big project. It's the first of my action series, called "Angels of Death". I've put everything I have into writing the script. It's still a work in progress, but I'm extremely proud of what I have so far. I think I'm around 12,000 words and I have a solid plot and storyline. I'm just filling in dialogue and characterization at this point. I already have a good idea on where I want to take the sequel as well.
This is my primary focus and the ultimate goal that I am working towards for the next few years.
I do believe that I could sell the script for a good amount of money already, but I want to direct it myself and I wrote this with a very high budget in mind; I will not sell the script short by doing this without the proper budget or letting some hot shot director ruin my film. That being said, I'm working on several smaller projects to build my own reputation.
2.) This is step one for what I'm trying to do with my life and how I intend to meet my other goals. I'm sure this is also a very common goal on this forum: Sundance Film Festival. I'm going to write, shoot and edit as many low budget films as I can and go take them to Sundance. This is what I'm working on now.
3.) Start a production company. Once I can establish myself as a filmmaker, I want to own all my own equipment and not have to rely on any big names. I guess this is the long term goal.
So that's me. Film is my life. As far as who I am outside of film, I'm a pretty laid-back person. I'm very opinionated and outspoken, but I'll save that for the content of my work instead of on websites such as this. I like parties, travel, extreme experiences (SCUBA for instance), and most of all beautiful women. lol
My name is Trevor Irwin. I'm 19 years old and have been in love with filmmaking my entire life. Having recently came into adulthood however, I'm taking drastic and serious steps towards beginning a career. I'm here to get ideas and advice from the community.
About me:
- I am in love with almost the entire filmmaking process. From pre-production to the editing room. I am very hands on with my work, and to relate it to a successful filmmaker, I'd compare myself to the "one man film crew" philosophy that Robert Rodriguez uses in his films.
- I do it all because I love it. I enjoy writing, directing, acting, editing, camerawork, effects, anything and everything I can get at, I'll do. Even if I get a large budget where I can hire people to do such jobs, I still plan on being a big part of each of those roles.
- I am in college right now, but I feel like it was a huge mistake. I should have been pursuing film from the get go instead of wasting and money (student loans) and time going to school. I guess my main issue with school is that I'm very intelligent but I lack the focus and organization for school. (IE. I ace all my tests but get C's and below for missing assignments/late work.) Still, I'm only about a semester away from and associates degree, so I'm at least going to stick it out for that since I'm already there.
- My greatest talent is writing. I have always been a gifted writer and I have a great appreciation for language. I thrive on creativity and coming up with something different.
- I was a part of a pretty good news program in high school. I'm not talking $50 cameras and windows movie maker. They had a good budget and we worked with good equipment. I learned a lot of good technical skills there. The basics of filmmaking and editing. The rest of my knowledge would be anything and everything I could suck up from special features in films. You'd be amazed at the wealth of knowledge if you've never watched any... they're goldmines.
Goals:
1.) First and foremost, I have one feature film that I want to be my debut once I can get funding for a big project. It's the first of my action series, called "Angels of Death". I've put everything I have into writing the script. It's still a work in progress, but I'm extremely proud of what I have so far. I think I'm around 12,000 words and I have a solid plot and storyline. I'm just filling in dialogue and characterization at this point. I already have a good idea on where I want to take the sequel as well.
This is my primary focus and the ultimate goal that I am working towards for the next few years.
I do believe that I could sell the script for a good amount of money already, but I want to direct it myself and I wrote this with a very high budget in mind; I will not sell the script short by doing this without the proper budget or letting some hot shot director ruin my film. That being said, I'm working on several smaller projects to build my own reputation.
2.) This is step one for what I'm trying to do with my life and how I intend to meet my other goals. I'm sure this is also a very common goal on this forum: Sundance Film Festival. I'm going to write, shoot and edit as many low budget films as I can and go take them to Sundance. This is what I'm working on now.
3.) Start a production company. Once I can establish myself as a filmmaker, I want to own all my own equipment and not have to rely on any big names. I guess this is the long term goal.
So that's me. Film is my life. As far as who I am outside of film, I'm a pretty laid-back person. I'm very opinionated and outspoken, but I'll save that for the content of my work instead of on websites such as this. I like parties, travel, extreme experiences (SCUBA for instance), and most of all beautiful women. lol
Good. We'll get along perfectly. (Not sarcasm)
