Hey Dan

With workshops over and faire about to start, my brain has once again wondered to making movies. Two of the guys in my office are also amateur film makers. One of them has just started and of course wants to buy a camera. Now, to defend his desire to buy a camera before he has finished a script, if you have a camera you can shoot. If you can shoot you can at anytime make a movie. Everything else is secondary. The other film geek and I brought in our cameras, so he could get an idea of what to look for.

We spent our lunch hour playing with cameras and talking about focal length, depth of field, the importance of conflict in a story, opening scenes and editing. So now I am really going nuts to film stuff. What is stopping me? Well let us talk about that.

Everyone that makes a movie finds that you enjoy some parts more then others. Me personally I like writing, story boarding and camera work. I do not like editing and directing. You also discover that it takes an army to make even a simple film. Just shooting a scene takes someone thinking about outside sounds, level light, focus of the camera, any movement of the camera, any movement of the actors, anything that is showing up in the frame that should not be there, quality of the sound you want, and someone should actually be looking at the actors. There is plenty of room for people to do something they like. Whether it be thinking in f stops and focus pulls or editing, you need that person to make a movie.

This is why it is time to jump back in and dust off the keyboard and power up the camera. What to help? Do you have a story? We could shoot it.