GlimmerGhost
Well-known member
I'm still pretty new here and I know most if any of you guys don't know me yet, but I thought i'd ask for some guidance on to the right track or aproval of the track I am about to take.
I have the equipment and i could keep making shorts here in cleveland, show them to my friends and submit them to film festivals. But I dont really want to play around anymore, you know?
Instead of flying off the handle without clarity though, I've devised a plan; and i'd like to explain it now in hopes to get some words of wisdom.
In about 3 weeks I am going to rejoin the Merchant Marine, after 4 years, as a Civilian contract engine utility. The pay is awesome in comparison to what I make here, I'd be making around $4600 to $5500 a month with room and board payed for.
My wife has opened three bank accounts for the purposes of placing money in each one for the different funds of the short film I wish to make.
I'd be gone for 4 months. The short is 9 to 12 min long.
Currently, Puerto Rico is going through many hardships, but one thng that it should not be suffering from is the lack of films coming out of there. While Alejandro Amenabar was changing the way people thought movies were supposed to be like in Spain with "Thesis" and "Open your eyes", Alfonso Cuaron was changing the way Mexico made their movies with "y tu mama Tambien"
Brazil with City of God and so on and so forth. Yet Puerto Rico is still either making movies about the Chupa Cabra or Making MC Daddy Yankee the spokesperson for young filmakers on the island with reggaeton videos. And i'm not slandering rap or reggae, but what the hell did the native indians know about rap or reggae and we arent making movies about them.
So my plan is to get the funds, come back and network here on DVXuser with the permission and help of the moderators, go to PR and make a short that dosent nessesarily open eyes but at least captures the right people's attention. With that short and (hopefully) some festival recognition I can shop it around the island through many connections I already have. And make a feature film that talks about something worthwhile. Something relative to the situation, something that DOES open peoples eyes. I have something, if you can picture "motorcycle diaries" and "the sea inside" you just saw a shadow of a glimpse of my vision.
Does it sound like a fantasy? Maybe. But Can it be done? Also a maybe.
Now the question is... am I on the right track? Only the more experienced can enlighten me. i am open to suggestions.
I have the equipment and i could keep making shorts here in cleveland, show them to my friends and submit them to film festivals. But I dont really want to play around anymore, you know?
Instead of flying off the handle without clarity though, I've devised a plan; and i'd like to explain it now in hopes to get some words of wisdom.
In about 3 weeks I am going to rejoin the Merchant Marine, after 4 years, as a Civilian contract engine utility. The pay is awesome in comparison to what I make here, I'd be making around $4600 to $5500 a month with room and board payed for.
My wife has opened three bank accounts for the purposes of placing money in each one for the different funds of the short film I wish to make.
I'd be gone for 4 months. The short is 9 to 12 min long.
Currently, Puerto Rico is going through many hardships, but one thng that it should not be suffering from is the lack of films coming out of there. While Alejandro Amenabar was changing the way people thought movies were supposed to be like in Spain with "Thesis" and "Open your eyes", Alfonso Cuaron was changing the way Mexico made their movies with "y tu mama Tambien"
Brazil with City of God and so on and so forth. Yet Puerto Rico is still either making movies about the Chupa Cabra or Making MC Daddy Yankee the spokesperson for young filmakers on the island with reggaeton videos. And i'm not slandering rap or reggae, but what the hell did the native indians know about rap or reggae and we arent making movies about them.
So my plan is to get the funds, come back and network here on DVXuser with the permission and help of the moderators, go to PR and make a short that dosent nessesarily open eyes but at least captures the right people's attention. With that short and (hopefully) some festival recognition I can shop it around the island through many connections I already have. And make a feature film that talks about something worthwhile. Something relative to the situation, something that DOES open peoples eyes. I have something, if you can picture "motorcycle diaries" and "the sea inside" you just saw a shadow of a glimpse of my vision.
Does it sound like a fantasy? Maybe. But Can it be done? Also a maybe.
Now the question is... am I on the right track? Only the more experienced can enlighten me. i am open to suggestions.
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no but seriously, imagine making a feature that gets world reckognition made exlusively by DvXuser's? It would mean one more acomplishment that couldnt have been done without the help of this great site.