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Post by Castor Troy » Thu Jan 06, 2011 7:57 pm

Just to add some more positive stuff, Edgar Wright who directed Scott Pilgrim, Shaun of the Dead, and Hot Fuzz got his start editing movie clips to Beatles songs. :)

I dunno if those landed him gigs, but that paved his path into filmmaking.
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Post by Kaream » Fri Jan 07, 2011 3:27 am

Scott Pilgrim ey.. really interesting
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Post by McDirty » Fri Jan 07, 2011 7:17 pm

Castor Troy wrote:Just to add some more positive stuff, Edgar Wright who directed Scott Pilgrim, Shaun of the Dead, and Hot Fuzz got his start editing movie clips to Beatles songs. :)

I dunno if those landed him gigs, but that paved his path into filmmaking.
A lot of filmmakers like Christopher Nolan, P.T Andersen, Quentin Tarantino, and Steven Soderbergh first started off at a young age putting together random footage on the VHS player and using different audio sources. Obviously this stuff didn't get them their jobs, but it did benefit them later on in their lives.

Here's a site that might benefit both people who are looking into the career and who are just making AMVs for fun:
http://www.creativecow.net

The site has to offer a lot of information, tutorials, and podcasts on how to use a lot of editing and graphics software.
Some of the demo reels on the site are also pretty good:
http://reels.creativecow.net/demo_reel/t/1

Backstage's How to Create a Demo Reel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAJNEL3HKjc

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Post by Bauzi » Wed Jan 19, 2011 5:17 pm

I feel a bit like someone treats beginners like shit and I feel exploited. I study Digital Film & Animation and there is an "job" offer on our black board:

Cutter for musicvideos, cutter for a trailer, internet tv and distribution, administrative work, keeping the website up to date,... for 4 months. Than there might be some project with cash involved.

Are you shitting me? Being a personal bitch for 4 months... for free? >_<
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Post by McDirty » Wed Jan 19, 2011 8:42 pm

Bauzi wrote:I feel a bit like someone treats beginners like shit and I feel exploited. I study Digital Film & Animation and there is an "job" offer on our black board:

Cutter for musicvideos, cutter for a trailer, internet tv and distribution, administrative work, keeping the website up to date,... for 4 months. Than there might be some project with cash involved.

Are you shitting me? Being a personal bitch for 4 months... for free? >_<
No kidding. :x

People get this stupid assumption that this business is cheap and free. i hate it when people come up and say, "oh you make video? that's easy, you just point the camera and hit record right?" :uhoh:

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Post by Castor Troy » Thu Jan 20, 2011 12:38 pm

Bauzi wrote:I feel a bit like someone treats beginners like shit and I feel exploited. I study Digital Film & Animation and there is an "job" offer on our black board:

Cutter for musicvideos, cutter for a trailer, internet tv and distribution, administrative work, keeping the website up to date,... for 4 months. Than there might be some project with cash involved.

Are you shitting me? Being a personal bitch for 4 months... for free? >_<

People will do anything to live the dream....

In between editing gigs from 2009-2010, I tried to do the "work as a PA (production assistant) for free and have the director and producers yell at you as you deliver their bagels and coffee" route. But the doorway to get into that is so tiny, it's like having real people trying to actually fit inside a mouse hole. :x
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Post by Bauzi » Thu Jan 20, 2011 5:11 pm

I found a flowchart that can tell you if you should work for free or not:
http://jhische.com/workforfree.html

Surprise! It suggests that you should never work for free for a legitimate business.
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Post by McDirty » Fri Jan 21, 2011 1:38 pm

Bauzi wrote:Surprise! It suggests that you should never work for free for a legitimate business.
:lol: Because they have money for sure, that's why. Thanks for the chart Bauzi. I gotta kick out of it. :up:
Castor Troy wrote:People will do anything to live the dream....

In between editing gigs from 2009-2010, I tried to do the "work as a PA (production assistant) for free and have the director and producers yell at you as you deliver their bagels and coffee" route. But the doorway to get into that is so tiny, it's like having real people trying to actually fit inside a mouse hole. :x
Wow! I bet you learned a lot from the experience though. I heard that 1 week of PA work in Hollywood is more productive than 4 years of study.

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Post by Castor Troy » Fri Jan 21, 2011 1:44 pm

McDirty wrote:
Bauzi wrote:Surprise! It suggests that you should never work for free for a legitimate business.
:lol: Because they have money for sure, that's why. Thanks for the chart Bauzi. I gotta kick out of it. :up:
Castor Troy wrote:People will do anything to live the dream....

In between editing gigs from 2009-2010, I tried to do the "work as a PA (production assistant) for free and have the director and producers yell at you as you deliver their bagels and coffee" route. But the doorway to get into that is so tiny, it's like having real people trying to actually fit inside a mouse hole. :x
Wow! I bet you learned a lot from the experience though. I heard that 1 week of PA work in Hollywood is more productive than 4 years of study.
Back when I was a kid, my friend's brother worked as a PA on Power Rangers and said it was a difficult, but awesome experience. He was paid peanuts, but at least he can say he worked on Power Rangers. :shock:

I also applied to be an extra in several indie films just to get the experience of being on a set and even went to Hollywood several times for headshots, but never got called back. :cry:

But screw all that, I'm making my own film in hopefully 2 years or less. :up:
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Post by Magnus » Sun Jan 23, 2011 12:51 pm

Got my first paying video gig. Making a PV as well as a Music video for an underground Metalcore-band here in Sweden, Still Echo.
These 2 projects are in the planning stage - scripts, locations and props is being worked on.

"Forever, Though Never" by Still Echo - Music Video Production.
First video shooting will be taking place in around the end of Mars and beginning of April, shooting for the first video will be scheduled on weekends taking up to around 3 weekends in total
(8 hours a day, so approximately 47 hours). The editing stage of the first production is still unclear, but the hunch is telling me that it might take quiet a while,
due to some of the technical work involved with the script and storyboard.
Link to song of the project.

"Choices" by Still Echo - Promotion Video Production.
The second production, which will be the Promotion Video (PV), will be shot under the duration of ~2 weekends (each day 6-7 hour, approximately 24-28 hours total).
The editing of this project will be slightly quicker, due to the reason of being a classic styled PV with mostly shots of the actual band (No interpretation of side-story footage).
Link to song of the project.

To check out all of their music, their EP which is up for free live streaming, click here.
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