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>>85071757
are you fucking Cameron Nguien???

Song name?

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>>85073121
braaap

>>85073022
I might be

>>85073121
You're expecting one of two answers so I'm gonna tell you: It's Eastbound And Down by Jerry Reed.

>>feel less like a complete failure as a person now.

Nice bro. I wish I could go to MacDonalds and feel like less of a failure

>>85073761
Yeah, ordinarily it makes me feel worse but making a short out of it makes me feel like I'm actually doing something productive.

>>85071757
OC is always appreciated OP.
Here is your bump and god bless

>>85074318
Thanks m8

>>85071757
We all start somewhere and I can still see you've got a lot to learn. I suggest doing some reading/watching on camera techniques. Learn what makes good composition and for the love of god learn the rule of thirds.

Anywho, a documentary I co-produced and boomed got into the official selection of a festival in New York, pretty cool stuff, even though I do not like the final product that much.

I always love seeing these threads even though I haven't got anything to show.

I'm shooting a short next month that I'll be sending to fests.

Bump

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I really think this is a tough hurdle to conquer as a beginning filmmaker: don't assume that the only way the film making community will take you seriously is if you make a "serious" film. Short films about abortions, human trafficking, drug overdoses, paranoid schizophrenics, prostitutes that get beat up and raped, love ones that die in car accidents...etc. You know, "serious" films.

Being taken “seriously” by the film community doesn’t mean you have to hit the audience in the face with a sledgehammer saying, "I did a film about this intense issue! Look at how mature I am!” It's about telling a visual story (no matter how short) about INTERESTING characters. I have seen too many student short films that deal with these hard hitting serious issues but with incredibly boring cardboard cut out characters, basically cause they have under 15 mins to make a “point.” They fall flat and they become dreaded “film student clichés.” The more “serious” the film the more scrutiny it invites: acting, lighting, production design, music, etc. If you don’t have the resources to back up your “serious” story it can fall apart easily.

Don’t take yourself so seriously so early by trying to tackle the world. You will have your whole film making life to build up on that. Make a simple story that you would want to watch over and over again, that you would want others to watch over again and again. Entertain.

Write from the heart and most importantly (and a big fucking cliché) write what you know. Honestly, if you are a middle-class white boy under the age of 25 who has lived in the suburbs your whole life are you really certain the story about human trafficking and miscarriages is the story you were born to tell for your breakout film?