Um jemals etwas in jeder x-beliebigen Profession zu erreichen, muss man sich auf die eigene Reise der Entdeckungen, Wunder, Erfolge und Niederlagen, Studium, schlaflose Naechte und lange Arbeitstage machen.
Ich bin fest davon ueberzeugt, dass der einzige Weg, die Welt zu verbessern, darin besteht, miteinander Erfahrungen auszutauschen und einander beim Lernen zu unterstuetzen - bis der eigene Trampelpfad, den man sich muehsam durch den Dschungel gebahnt hat, in einer Autobahn fuer tausende Nachvolger wird. Je mehr Menschen in einem Arbeitsfeld Erfolge verzeichnen, und je schneller sie ihre Faehigkeiten erlernt haben, desto wahrscheinlicher wird es, dass einer von ihnen etws entdeckt, das die Moeglichkeiten aller ausweitet und technologische Entwicklung vorantreibt.
Im Laufe der letzten Monate habe ich meine eigenen Lern-Favoriten aus dem Web gesammelt und zusammengetragen; ich studiere gerade Film in Los Angeles bzw. habe eine kleine Filmproduktionsfirma hier aufgebaut habe (ganz viel dazu in meinem Blog); das folgende LTK ist Stand Juni 2012; wenn du eine up-to-date, ausgebaute Version sehen moechtest,
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FILM LTK
Filmmaking Links, Tutorials & Knowledge
Content:
Forums & Communities
The fastest way to grow your skills and knowledge is to become part of a community and converse with them all the time. If you are not enrolled in a film school or otherwise surrounded by filmmakers in your area, then becoming part of an online forum/community will kick your learning curve up by more than you can imagine.
As you can see, in my hierarchy "Forums & Communities" has as much importance as all tutorials and knowledge - because these are the only places where your learning experience becomes interactive and social [if you don't have access to a face-to-face filmmaking community outside of the internet], and becoming part of a learning and experimenting community is just as important as the content of what you actually learn.
- DVXUser: www.dvxuser.com – a great forum with massive amounts of information, lot of activity and a nice atmosphere.
- DVInfo.net: www.dvinfo.net - a very informative community with professional and friendly people.
- Indietalk.com: www.indietalk.com - a nice community with lots of categories and diversity; worth checking out!
- Stundentfilms.com: www.studentfilms.com - a community of mostly (not just) student filmmakers, very active and full of conversation - a good place to find other people that cherish learning and development!
- Indiemogul.com: www.indiemogul.com - a community based around low-cost filmmaking; sometimes the conversational niveau is not the highest here, but lots of motivated people populate the forums.
- CreativeCow.net: www.creativecow.net - a community/tutorial-base that talks about everything digital art-related (incl. Cinematography & Editing). The forums still have the oldschool 1995 tree structure, but there's lots of helpful tutorials, helpful people and a good atmosphere.
- REDUser: www.reduser.net – the official RED forum that talks about ONE, ONE MX, SCARLET, EPIC, DRAGON and so on and so forth. Also the best source for RedcineX-updates, and your home of you are RED-obsessed or planning to buy one.
Tutorials & Instructions
Tutorials, especially video tutorials, are the best replacement for on-set experience. If you can't work on a big set as an assistant and can observe your superiors, or you can't be in a film school production class, online videos where people explain how to do certain things will be your (usually) free bible. Here a few resources that will provide you with a constant influx of new knowledge:
- NoFilmSchool: www.NoFilmSchool.com – Koon's weekly web digest of the most important things going on in the film world. One of the few newsletters worth subscribing.
- VideoCopilot: www.videocopilot.net - the probably world's best and largest and most awesomest and most Kramerest collection of After-Effects Tutorials. Here you can literally go from 0 to 100 in After Effects.
- Filmmaker IQ: www.FilmmakerIQ.com - a great collection of articles, tutorials, DIY stuff, link lists and tutorial lists, financing, online publishing - you can spend weeks of learning there!
- CreativeCow Library: library.creativecow.net - a great collection of editing- and VFX-related tutorials, sorted by programs, moderated by CreativeCow. Decent Quality Control, and offers insight for all skill levels.
Writing
Not just HOW to write, but especially WHAT to write needs to be put into lots of consideration and inner dialogue. History shows that certain forms and ways of writing are more efficient, expressive and successful than others, so studying the science of writing can never be a mistake. And of course, we're talking about screenwriting – so FORMAT is the very first thing you need to know.
- CeltX: www.CeltX.com – this free software makes Screenplay writing and formatting about 95% smoother. An absolute must.
- Screenwriting Complete Overview: http://www.screenwriting.info/ - a great overview over what screenwriting is about, what diffent terms mean, how to structure and format a screenplay, and what kind of literary tools to use in order to make a screenplay flow better. Pretty much, a complete screenwriting class online, for free.
Producing
Producing is organizing, hustling, paperwork, sitting back, playing big daddy and taking true and big responsibility. Definitely something you want to prepare yourself for – no matter if you have to deal with SAG, if you need to find the cheapest equipment in the most available location, if you need to sort out a conflict on set or deal with insurance and risk. Don't get yourself into a lawsuit, and make sure everyone comes in and out from the set in good physical condition - that's the foundation of good producing.
- Film Budgeting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_budgeting - it's good to know what producing is all about: Bringing resources together. And of course, most resources cost money, which is well-explained on Wikipedia.
- Great Production Budget Template: http://makingthemovie.info/2007/03/free-…t-template.html - easy and very useful for small, low-budget projects. Available in multiple formats including *.xls - a great place to start and build upon.
- Simple Front to Back Budget Template: http://www.sixbulletsmovie.com/filmmaking/indie_budget.htm - an instructional page about all steps of budgeting, *.xls-budget template included. The budget is very simple but shows that all steps of the production should be organized and accounted for.
- Scheduling for Dummies: http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/th…ing-a-film.html - gives you some good insight in the steps of breaking down a script and scheduling a shoot. Remember, you don't need to professionally break down a script on small shoots - but a professional, well-thought-out schedule is what you should focus your energies on.
- Schedule & Shot List Template: http://adhack.com/community/resources/vi…hedule-template - interesting template utilizing screenplay-looking organization to schedule a shoot and including a detailed shot list.
- SAG Instruction Videos: http://www.sag.org/sag-tv/Production%20Center - SAG members are giving you instructions how to sign a production (you have to, if you use SAG actors, otherwise you jeopardize their guild standing) and making the word "SAG" just a little less scary by giving you some good insight.
- SAG signatory online system: http://www.sag.org/production-center/sign-sag-online - sign your production online, right here. Saves you lots headache, because this is one of the first things you should get done as a producer.
- G&E Equipment Rentals Wooden Nickel: http://www.woodennickellighting.com/page…grental/cat.pdf - useful if you are producing in the LA area, or if you want to get a good idea for affordable, professional Grip&Electric equipment that you will need to include in the budget.
- Camera/Lens Equipment Rental Samy's: http://images.samys.com/images/pdf/rental_2011.pdf - also useful for people in LA; the NY equivalent would be Adorama Rentals. These stores rent lens and camera equipment, whereas I would mainly recommend them for lenses, that's what we do with them.
- Making a $20,000 indie film: http://www.sixbulletsmovie.com/filmmaking/indie-film.htm - good article from a filmmaker that "did it" - telling you what to be cautious about and what to concentrate on.
- Largest Collection and System of Film Festivals: http://www.withoutabox.com - this website lets you enter your film into hundreds of film festivals around the world, organizes the submission process for you, and is directly linked to IMDB (every accepted submission to qualifying festivals gets the film an IMDB page).
Directing
A director is the one central element of a film. Everything renders down to an able and well-prepared director, one that can infest his crew with courage and motivation, and keep cool when things get too hot on set. A director needs to be a great communicator, understand himself and even more so, his actors and their psychological triggers, and have a good balance of self-criticism, self esteem and persistence. Directing, since it's such a social profession, can only be really learned on set – but gearing up some aces and hidden tricks up your sleeve when things get tight is never a bad idea.
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Viele Gruesse aus den Staaten,
Gentle
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