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Post by X factor on Apr 16, 2024 11:37:30 GMT -5
Film school thoughts and notes Film school thoughts and notes
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Post by X factor on Apr 16, 2024 11:39:32 GMT -5
Yep, I'm enrolled in a film academy..hmm (stupid me)
That aside, first major assignment is to watch 6 movies and pick out the
1. Protagonist
2. Antagonist
3. Theme of movies
And a few other things...
So now on second movie, which I'd never watch if not on the assigned list.
'Hell Boy'...hmm and yuk.
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Post by X factor on Apr 20, 2024 19:21:38 GMT -5
Screenwriting tips video, very good one
This video will for sure come in handy very soon.
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Post by X factor on Apr 23, 2024 8:59:14 GMT -5
I can't believe, at my age, I enrolled in a film school, what the heck was I thinking??
As usual, I had a few beers in me when made up my mind.
Being drunk and making decisions has really taken my life on a zig zag path.
Anyways, about to head over to the 'hands on' studio for whatever my mentor has in store.
And had my first film shoot experience over the weekend...will explain later.
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Post by X factor on May 1, 2024 23:05:22 GMT -5
So far learning how to properly format a story into a screenplay format, is kicking my butt.
It's one thing to just write down thoughts in a blog, it's another to have to format your thoughts into a readable story that will not make those who have to read it, reject it.
That's a lot of pressure.
I mean I'm learning all this for the first time, I'm years, decades, behind the pro's...what was I thinking?
But if do it right, the reward is I get to pitch my screenplay to a Hollywood producer...ye OK.
Right now though, I'm a million miles away from that.
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Post by X factor on May 25, 2024 11:18:35 GMT -5
Just having fun
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Post by X factor on May 30, 2024 14:43:47 GMT -5
Docu-story
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Post by X factor on Jun 2, 2024 22:23:50 GMT -5
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Post by X factor on Jun 13, 2024 23:01:27 GMT -5
Things are coming along OK, I suppose, the only thing getting in the way of my full success, as usual, is drinking.
When you drink, there's a lot of down time that follows, or recovery time, and during this time I don't feel like doing anything but sleep, and least of all study or read or take notes.
Drinking just numbs the mind.
I guess it's fine to drink if on top of the world and have already achieved your goals in life, but me, I haven't really achieved a thing in life.
If I passed away tonight or tomorrow, or 5 years ago, 10 years ago, no one would have any reason to remember me for anything, other than social media posts.
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Tomorrow feels like work to me, cause have to go into this studio and be taught stuff...but me and the so called instructor don't really mesh.
And I'll leave it at that for now.
I should of just took what money I got, and just stuck with the first plan, which was to get some land, a used RV, and just vanish, live a simple life in rural America somewhere...stupid me for not doing that.
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Post by X factor on Jun 15, 2024 14:29:14 GMT -5
Just having some fun
For from film quality, but you still just gotta have fun with it...Movavi is a wonderful, beginners movie editor, but far from film grade...or is it?
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Post by X factor on Jun 16, 2024 16:53:31 GMT -5
Boom mic methods and operation
Very helpful video when it comes to how to properly handle and operate a voice boom mic.
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Post by X factor on Jun 16, 2024 22:03:43 GMT -5
lighting
Light is very important when it comes to cinema, right up there with visuals and sound.
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Post by X factor on Jun 25, 2024 19:03:18 GMT -5
Silent movie fun
The second part of this video is a silent movie, just done for, well, kicks.
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Post by X factor on Jun 26, 2024 23:24:18 GMT -5
EIS vs OIS
These older videos are pretty solid.
I learned more from this video than I have from my school, about EIS vs OIS settings...lol
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Post by X factor on Jul 2, 2024 20:50:44 GMT -5
OK, here's the deal... I just signed up for adobe creative cloud for like 1 full year, at around $239.00. The school I attend, if you want to call it that...I mean it's pretty much a self paced, self taught course, unless you get a really good hands on mentor who likes you. That aside, they dropped the payment into my account, but actually, I'm sure they just took it out of my initial tuition cost...so as usual it's me who really paying for it...and it should just be apart of tuition anyways. 1. I've never ever used adobe, any of their stuff, I just always found it way to complex, especially when there were so many easier to use spin off alternatives, over the years.  I mean like this piece here, I've been creating art for over a decade just using my own skill set and getting creative with different tools. So do really need adobe? Probably yes, for one main reason, and that is if I do get into film stuff or photo stuff, adobe, and a few other such professional editing software, well, they're the standard that people even in Hollywood use...and so if I can't even use adobe, it just drops my value all that much more to people. Oh, I'll figure it out, and when I do I'll be great at it, but there will be a big learning curb at first. I really want to be a screenplay writer though, that's what I'm best at doing, is writing...I mean where do you think all the material comes from on this blog forum? Not AI, this blog form was created years and years before AI was born. It's all original content....all of it....and one day maybe I'll open this blog forum up to more powerful people...but not now. Anyways, yes, getting adobe was a big deal to me, a bit overwhelmed, not to mention just received a DSLR Canon camera I just ordered and paid over a gran for...and a gimbel I've still got to charge up and figure out, not to mention lesson plans, script and more...my brain is really having to work now and is why I can no longer afford to drink. Drinking will kill all of it, I cannot drink, and still have the mental energy and enthusiasm to do what I have to do over the next few months. If I can just not drink, at all anymore, at least while in this course, than I should do and be fine...but you never know, cause regardless of my own actions we all know life can just be brutally cruel at times. Anyways, I'm wasting time and writing energy here, so let me move on. Also, I downloaded the adobe on a different PC, one that's clean..no files, no personal stuff, nothing, nada, unlike the one I'm typing with now. |
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