I'm so glad I found your channel! The young generation of filmmakers needs more female role models and after just one video I am subscribing. You know what you're talking about!
Spot on. When I worked in television we often had people from film school come into the cutting room where it was the first step on the ladder and they thought they were going to be a director the following day. Needless to say they were not. I can remember once going to Bristol Film School and a student came up to me and asked if as a television editor I would look at the film he was editing. I of course was more than happy to oblige but was slightly shocked when he showed me about 20 shots put together and explained, this was about four weeks work. He then asked me about one edit point and said he had been on this for a number of hours because he could not decide if it needed to be cut one frame forward or one frame back. My response to him was when he leaves films school and goes in a commercial edit suite he will not have the luxury of spending days on deciding where a cut should be so he needed to feel the cut point and if he didn't I was not sure editing was for him. Following on from this when I set up my own production company I tried to avoid film school people and employed people who has a passion for filmmaking.
Nice videos! Maybe you could do one about how you store all your equipment? Also transporting for shoots where you use your own gear or generally a lot of gear? Also, kind of a random question: have you ever worked with Patrick O'Sullivan (wandering dp)?
Ah yeah, great ideas! Might have to be a video for later. I've just sold my kit so I'll wait for a larger job that involves gear transport. Really good idea though, it's on the list! I've never worked with Patrick though. I don't think he is Melbourne based, pretty sure he's in Perth? Not too sure though. LOVE The Wandering DP though, good stuff. Thanks very much or your kind words and for watching!
@@flickcine In addition what frustrates me the most is that customers are not so much interested in "real" quality work but be satisfied with "good enough" work making the price drops more likely and happening. It's something I tell people all the time: educate your customers if possible so they see and understand quality work.
I think a lot of people over here either come from a background of not knowing how much things cost and then not asking their clients for more money to make it work, rather just trying to get people for Les and less. Unfortunately some people fall for that trap. I have also heard of production companies increasing their profits by saying it's low budget, getting more money from the client and then keeping most of that money for themselves and not the paying for the production well enough.
