You Are A Filmmaker

You have gotten yourself a quality camcorder or a Dslr camera such as the GH1 or the Canon t2i or you have an iPhone. One of these pieces of equipment qualifies you as having the basic piece of equipment needed to shoot a professional quality motion picture.

As long as the Camcorder you have can shoot at 24 frames per second. All of the Canon HV series along with most of the Canon Vixia series can accomplish this. You will be ready to shoot your first short film or if you are feeling like going on a grand adventure your first feature length film. Almost all of the Dslr cameras give you the ability to shoot at 24p and with some free or low cost software you can produce a movie of incredible quality. The Panasonic GH2 and the Canon 5d mark II have been used to shoot features. The Canon 5d has shot a few that have had national distribution.

The iPhone is the next tool to be used to produce quality motion pictures. By itself the phone’s camera is pretty good and with the addition of an app like Filmic Pro you can capture footage that rivals that of the Dslr cameras. It will only be a matter of time before this special little device will be used to film a feature length motion picture and the good news about this is that any one of you maybe the one to do just that. At the moment the only thing holding you or I back is our own imaginations. If you want to be a feature film maker all you have to do is learn the basics of sound and proper lighting and then find or write a good script and get to work on making a great movie.

How many of us have sat through a movie that we knew in our hearts that we could have made better? It will not be easy, but nothing in life that is worth doing is ever easy. It will be hard work, but I promise you this that the worst day of work that you will ever do on your own film will be one of the most intense and gratifying days of your life.

If you have read this far then I assume that you wish to be a film maker. If you hang around this site long enough and study the tutorials that will be provided here along with the resources that I suggest I promise you that you will have receive the basic knowledge necessary to become an independent filmmaker.

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