How to Write a Short Film 

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This whole presentation was an awesome short film.

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You’re also missing the “rich parents” part. So many filmmakers have trust funds to purchase equipment and attend film school, etc. They don’t need investors because they have daddy McMansion

@@mugiikari1641 TRUUE, but thats when you "start a business" and go ham on tax write-offs.

While you meet people try doing animation, if you can’t draw maybe try stop motion. You can do it by yourself, even though it is a LOT of work. If you get really, really creative on how to built the set and puppets for stop motion you can even do it in a very low budget.

Maybe starting a film support group of like minded people would be a good idea...if so I'm all in! 😊

My film school experience was similar.

@@TylerMowery mine as well

Back in High School, I wanted to become a filmmaker, I looked up all film school of the country (France) and it was really expansive, at least too much for me, so i didn't even try, thinking you couldn't do anything without going to film school. Now ten years later i'm diving back in that passion, and realizing I never heard about someone who went to film school, and had a good experience about it! Feel free to share the pros and cons that you encountered in film school i'm very curious about your experiences!

​@@rhaegosnow1133 I can't say Film School is useless, but it's not necessary. Cinematography is an art. Everyone has a different path. A piece of paper will not tell you are a good storyteller, your work will do. A lot of directors and people who make the entire world of cinematography a living doesn't have a film school career. In fact, if we think the movie pioneers didn't go to any school, because they didn't exist. To name a few directors: Michel Gondry, Christopher Nolan, Agnés Varda, Julie Tamor, Billy Wilder, Akira Kurosawa, Frank Capra, Kubrick, Terry Gilliam, Herzog, Almodovar, James Cameron, Tarantino, David Sandberg and Robert Rodriguez (you should search some videos of him talking about cinematography) Now imagine if this people who born in a era where the information and movies was so exclusive could do it, why we don't now that information is almost everywhere? Talking about my experience in my film school, here in Argentina it's public (I mean almost free) I realize the best thing in a film school it's the people and connections you get there, friends that I would never met staying in my bedroom all day. I learn something, yes of course, but because of me, in the end of everything it's you learning by doing, making mistakes, staying curious and keep doing. I had a lot of classmates who finished the career but they are doing nothing. Some people doesn't even know how to grab a camera or edit a simple video but it's not the school's fault. Also I will say a lot of film schools are very classic, they are not updated to this era, they will teach you only one way to make cinematography and this era is demonstrating that Cinematography can be applied to almost everything because it's an art, not only an industry. Hope this helps, sorry if I have a bad english, it's not my first language.

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It’s fitting, yet it’s stylistic. It isn’t an element that changes his actions or his beliefs within the story. It’s nice to know and it’s a nice stylistic element. But I don’t consider it “core story.” The story could work if he had a different profession. It’s just nice that he is a typographer. Hopefully that makes sense.

@@TylerMowery Yeah I understand that I guess. I have heard from others that every aspect of a movie should in some way revolve around the central idea of it. So in that way it's important that his job represent his central struggle. If he was a barista 'just because', then it would be a waste of run time. But with his job is typography, it makes his struggle tangible in a new way to the audience, even if it's subconscious. I agree it doesn't contribute to the progressing the story. But it's important for building out the universe.

that's a good point!

Doneandgone that’s a very good question at the end

@Doneandgone We don´t know that He doesn´t know that. Maybe he knows and that´s the reason why he is learning Sign Language, even if the short makes us believe that he is learning it to overcome his speaking limitations.

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Yea I agree!

Find a college or university that does creative digital media, it covers short film production and general camera use for all kinds of scenes, and photography too. Also some include advertising and promotion for them when on no or low budget. Very helpful, if your in the UK, Swindon college does a great course on it.

Dude, you can find everything there is to know nowadays without school. Learn to be independent and figure stuff out. You’re not gonna make it in the industry if you aren’t able to hustle and figure things out yourself or if you don’t have any natural talent or common sense.

@@lairsansen4579 You're exactly right. Getting the gig is all about proving what you're capable of.

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good luck with that!

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Are you kidding this has THOUSANDS of views, ya can’t have EVERYONE being famous from short films otherwise famous people aren’t so special anymore

Because Joseph Campbell exists and there are hundreds of other extremely similar videos discussing his writings.

Half of it is bullshit. And people that want to write won't look on youtube for it, they'll write. He is literally talking about things that a writer doesn't think of. A writer writes and the story going to unfold from his thoughts. That's all. NO WRITER going to think about things, that this guy is talking about. Writing is not something you can learn. And it's a sudden thing. I didn't write anything new for a few months now. But for example once I had a thought about a shot where the paper boat goes down a river and then things come into your mind and I ended up with a boy who lost his brother and still playing with him in his imagination. I'll not talk about how the paperboat comes here but it plays an important part and it is currently in production. What you MUST learn are the rules. Know the f... differences between a shooting and a spec script and don't mix them up. See tons of amateurs with their trash and nobody going to read their "script" as mistakes pop out and you KNOW that it's already bad! Someone who can't write a script properly CAN'T write a good story. They think they can and what they write is good but that's just the Dunning-Kruger effect..

This is priceless information (no doubt about it!), but most people are not interested in creating stories. Generally speaking, the majority of folks are rather more keen on witnessing and enjoying them....

Yes! It’s a beautiful short.

I thoroughly enjoyed the Stutterer!! Well written story that hooked me in immediately

I mean, it did win an Academy Award!

it won the oscar, it got the recognition it deserved

Where I can find ?

Glad to hear!

Cool!

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@@laalig2989 get over yourself and your biases bro. 🤦‍♂️Haters like you only regress society.

Ey, didn't expect to see Jabrils here. Way cool!

Go for it, Michael!!

how did it go?

I just googled your name and saw some of the info on your short film - well done! I can see from the synopsis how you were influenced by this video and by Stutterer, and you took those concepts and used them to tell your own story. That's really cool. I'd love to see Fat Jessie some time (I just googled it and the results were a lot of Pokemon fetish drawings so I had to get out of there). Congratulations on making your movie!

Glad it was helpful!

Bos Marley what are some of your ideas?

You should probably start writing. I wouldn’t start with your dream movies, I’d start with other stuff you come up with, and just start writing. Trust me it helps a lot to just get into the motion of writing.

Mr Azza do both

Use that engineer money to make movies

i'm a writer, i want to turn my short stories into short movies, contact me if you are interested

I feel you! Film making has always been my passion but engineering gives you a more stable job. It'a hard to choose.

I’m an airline pilot who’s been parked up months due covid. Just been told I’m being parked up for 2 years with a recall due no work. It’s all I’ve known for 20 years. I’ve always loved film and aspired to do it, beit for a pastime or to make some money. I’m finally starting, got a camera, a comp and NLE (which massively confuses me). It might just stop me going insane from the stress about my aviation career whilst sitting in limbo. I need to do something, maybe creativity will help.

Glad to hear it’s helpful!

how’s the short film coming along?

That’s awesome! That’s probably the biggest goal of the videos. To help writers get unstuck. Not to give them formulas to live by.

im really curious as to how he reacted to your ideas, mind updating us?

@@wonderstorms4030 Yeah, we discussed it a bit. our story has three main characters, each with a different goal, but initially they also had different enemies and different conflicts, which made it three different stories, and that's not what we wanted. So basically we changed the story so that the opponent of one character became the main antagonist, but that their actions would create a different conflict for each character to deal with. My brother was still a bit hesitant about rewriting a lot of his characters, but he agreed that something needed to change and that my ideas do in fact solve the issues we were having. We're still looking into if we can keep more of his writing (since I already do 90% of the writing, It's a bit unbalanced to change his writing into mine too), but at least we aren't stuck anymore!

Osanne Art what have you named your story?

Osanne Art Cool story idea!

Glad to hear it!

writing screenplays & scripts can help improve on dialogue & experimenting in different writing mediums can help you in ways you don’t always realize. go for it!

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That’s awesome to hear! Thanks so much!

Hi Noelle, are you able to tell me where you saw Stutterer? The link in the description no longer works. Thanks so much :)

Same here! It's such a great film.

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Thanks for the kind words!

I want to know if you did it ?

I am glad to see this comment. Everyone else is gushing about how great the story is but to me it is lazy writing. . the solution is Ta Da the girl is deaf? Where is the struggle the stutterer had to mount? The girl was not honest for she did not reveal she was deaf at the beginning. I would have had stutterer fall in love at the beginning with a girl who is an excellent speaker so he does all he can to overcome his impediment. tension rises as each thing he tries fails until he forces himself to try the impossible, a debate which turns out to be against a rival who also wants the girl on a topic he cares deeply enough to give it his all. At first he is losing but then he reaches deep inside and remembers the childhood trauma that caused his stuttering and he forces himself to break thru the protective cocoon his stuttering was to win the debate and the love he thought was at the center of his being, but now he has grown to a new level of self understanding and he gains a higher degree of confidence and freedom from self doubt.

Also I would have the father be ashamed of his son thus becoming another obstacle to overcome and when the stutterer wins, he apologizes for not being a better influence...missed opportunity for drama, forgiveness and redemption

@@davidlyttle1919 one hundred percent right.

@@davidlyttle1919 There are those two types of successful writers: One who's a working writer and the other who teaches writing theories.

Yeah not a huge fan of the problematic implication of the resolution of this short film.

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Glad it was helpful!

Yea there’s definitely a lot of overdone short film topics

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I’m glad it was helpful!!

Thanks for the kind words!

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