HOW & WHY did you decide to become a filmmaker?

good question.
Maybe because i like makeing people have fun.
Well, Once, I saw the making of Titanic and it brought up some of my deepest emotions, thats where all started.
Aside from that, my neighbours brother is a film director and when a i was really young (I'm still young 17 to 18) he took me to a film set. I remember that I had a great time there (that helped a lot in making my choice).
After all this I'm heading in the direction of filmmaking (still studying).
 
for me it was a process that spanned almost a decade. when i was in high school i took a creative writing class and realized that i could write comedy. in college, the people i shared my writings with told me that i had a gift and i should do something with it. but i never really took them serious. after graduation i tried several careers, but never felt fulfilled. and then it happened...

i went into blockbuster one day and rented what is quite possibly one of the worst films ever made. the movie was called, "13 seconds". after watching it, i realized that if this piece of crap could make it to the shelves of blockbuster, so could one of my movies. and thus, a film director was born.

the end.
 
I was never sure until I reached CEGEP (A pre-university college in quebec) when I took Communications. I always had an interest in film making and other medias and arts, so I took a general program to let me experience everything. I still remember holding the camera in my hand doing the first exercise. I loved it. I've always loved having a camera in my hand.

I love to act, I love to write stories, I love music and to take photography, and film seems to combine all of this and more! And now, I love to make statements and speak my voice...
 
I stumbled upon IMDb when I was about 10 years old. I saw that the Shawshank Redemption was #2, and at the time it was my favorite movie. This made me respect IMDb (back then the top 250 was pretty good), and I browsed the site a bunch. I started renting "classics" and everything people recommended. I started studying film and analyzing how they were made. At this point, I decided I should become a film historian. After about a year of this self teaching, I found that IMDb had subforums called "shop talk directors" and "shop talk crew".

I started reading that (I don't recommend it). Everybody was pretty stupid, except for some of the regulars. After I learned a bunch from it, I started researching cameras so I could "direct my own feature" (yeah right). After a lot of research, I googled "XL2 vs. DVX100b" and it changed my life.

Thanks to the article by the same name on DVXuser, I stumbled onto this site. Since then, it has been smooth sailing.

The benefits of being young:
-all profits made from working (weddings; camera operating) go directly to more gear -- not rent, insurance, or food.
-lots of time ahead of me
 
ugafan said:
i went into blockbuster one day and rented what is quite possibly one of the worst films ever made. the movie was called, "13 seconds". after watching it, i realized that if this piece of crap could make it to the shelves of blockbuster, so could one of my movies. and thus, a film director was born.

the end.
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Good point. :)
 
I started in writing, and then saw a buddies short (1min.) film he did in an editing class... and I was hooked (was about 15 or 16 at the time) and we went and shot a little short, kind of a Star Trek rip-off... and there you have it... I just love this stuff!
 
I always wanted to do it since I was very young, before I knew what a director really is. Even when I was very small, I knew who Steven Spielberg and Tim Burton were. I remember seeing Spielberg in the making of Jurassic Park special with James Earl Jones back in 1993 and wanting to do what he did. A few years after that, at age 10, my friend Miguel and I decided we wanted to make a movie. Well, none of our parents had video cameras, so we were out of luck. Two years later, my parents bought a Hi8 handycam and we made our first movie and I knew for sure that I HAD to make films the rest of my life. I had sort of given up on it in High School, thinking it would never happen, and that you needed millions of dollars and studio backing. Then I discovered what independent film was. I had heard of it, but didn't really know what it meant. I found out about El Mariachi, and Tarantino, and foreign films. At about 16 I decided to take it seriously and really try and be a filmmaker. I realized that I could at least make the films myself, independently (distribution is a different story, but that's for a different thread). From there, I decided I needed to learn everything I could about all aspects of filmmaking. Now I'm trying to get a feature off of the ground.
 
Was an artist for many years.... then one day someone asked me t shoot a MusicVideo. i didi it for free but had fun. Then as soon as we were finished, the guys friend offered me money to shoot his... thus a DOP was born.
 
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