[Adding this May 27th 2015.. lol, I originally posted this in March of 2014 and man I kind of took some flack for this from a couple Union Grips who said that I was out of my mind for posting this on the Internet where my clients could see it. They said I needed to have a script and I needed to do better lighting on myself since I am a lighting guy and I think they wanted me to be way less real. But you know what, I just watched this and I like this because its REAL! I just wanted to record it and get it down and get it out back when I did it. and it really is good information. Like, I wish somebody would have just told me this stuff in about 2009. Honestly some mentors DID tell me this stuff.
But I will say I really do not mean to sound like a know it all in this.. I mean I shoot all kinds of stuff that is cool to me but we all know there are levels to this stuff so I'm not the Gaffer of Avatar! lol but it is good info from a fundamental stand point. And I may be the Gaffer of an Avatar Like Movie some day okay! anyways, Enjoy my dehydrated poorly lit webcam face!]
This is my 4 Part Lecture on how to not be a noob when hiring a Professional in the Film Industry:
Valuable information gleaned from many years of experience.
At the end of this video I am talking about going to Multiple Locations; I just want to clarify: I have no problem going to multiple locations and literally unloading everything out of the truck, shooting then loading it back in. The work of unloading the truck is not the issue. This talk is really geared more towards younger or more inexperienced film makers and making them aware of the fact that if you have these ideas that you want to get all this footage and all these shots in the videos, but you are planning on going to multiple locations, then that can really cut down on the amount of footage you get if you did want to use lots of equipment in each location. I used to shoot sometimes more when I was starting out, and a really ambitious director would be so disappointed when he wasn't getting all the footage he wanted to get in multiple locations.
But I will say I really do not mean to sound like a know it all in this.. I mean I shoot all kinds of stuff that is cool to me but we all know there are levels to this stuff so I'm not the Gaffer of Avatar! lol but it is good info from a fundamental stand point. And I may be the Gaffer of an Avatar Like Movie some day okay! anyways, Enjoy my dehydrated poorly lit webcam face!]
This is my 4 Part Lecture on how to not be a noob when hiring a Professional in the Film Industry:
Valuable information gleaned from many years of experience.
At the end of this video I am talking about going to Multiple Locations; I just want to clarify: I have no problem going to multiple locations and literally unloading everything out of the truck, shooting then loading it back in. The work of unloading the truck is not the issue. This talk is really geared more towards younger or more inexperienced film makers and making them aware of the fact that if you have these ideas that you want to get all this footage and all these shots in the videos, but you are planning on going to multiple locations, then that can really cut down on the amount of footage you get if you did want to use lots of equipment in each location. I used to shoot sometimes more when I was starting out, and a really ambitious director would be so disappointed when he wasn't getting all the footage he wanted to get in multiple locations.
