How old and what does everyone do?

pto2212 said:
OK- its my familie's minivan. My dad creates the engines for Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson, so he can fix it cause its so old.
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You couldn't BUY me into believing that.​
 
02-05-2005??!!?!

JESUS H. TAPDANCING CHRIST!
I JUST looked at that when I seen that guy say he was 20 on one page then 21 on the next. I've NEVER Seen a thread this old before, let alone post in one...it's going on two years old...And I just found out about it a couple of hours ago...I suck...
 
SilverWolf said:
That's a lot of consecutive posts Whitewood. You should use the edit button to keep the clutter down.
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Sorry. I was catching up. And I didn't want to clutter everything in ONE post, or no one would reasd it, as I skip over LONG ASS post.

I'm JUST realizing that there is no Deleting ANYTHING on this site like in other website's threads (What's THAT about??)​
 
GlimmerGhost said:
It's the fear sometimes, you know? Not like scared kinda fear, but more of the "time is slipping" kind of fear. My advice about the camera is just do it. I found one in the marketplace for real cheap, pm'd the guy and went on a lay-away plan. Every week, even if it was just $50 (even if'ts just $20) knock at that little by little until you have it payed off.
I wish i couldve recorded myself when I first got it, with a Bi Polar pattern also comes the excessive compulsive dissorder, Try to imagine Jack nicholson in "as good as it gets" but with a DVX, I'ts been 8 months and I still clean it everyday like it might rot away or something.
Anyway, don't wait any longer trying to get the HVX or a brand new DVX or just waiting...waiting is a good recipe to find yourself still waiting at 40.

Of course I dont know your particuler situation, so don't think i'd single you out, I mean this for everyone.
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I know that. I finally quit my MFTT (also known as job) late last year so I could cash in my 401k and get my DVX. After getting several emails a month for four months I went back. Still hate the MFTT but I do have the DVX and trying to get better at it. As Joel Goodsen would say. Sometimes you just gotta say, "What the ****, make your move."
 
GlimmerGhost said:
It's the fear sometimes, you know? Not like scared kinda fear, but more of the "time is slipping" kind of fear.
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Absolutely.

My advice about the camera is just do it. I found one in the marketplace for real cheap, pm'd the guy and went on a lay-away plan. Every week, even if it was just $50 (even if'ts just $20) knock at that little by little until you have it payed off.
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Oddly enough, it isn't the money issue... not exactly. I could go out and pick up a DVX right now from a local dealer in LA and start filming with it tomorrow. The problem with me is I'm just such a perfectionist it's kind of scary. I want my stuff to look like film and the DVX won't get there for me. The HVX would get a lot closer, but still not. I wish I wasn't such a friggin perfectionist. It would make my life a LOT easier!

Anyway, don't wait any longer trying to get the HVX or a brand new DVX or just waiting...waiting is a good recipe to find yourself still waiting at 40.
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I was reading this book I got from the library where they're interviewing directors about their first feature. Oliver Stone made his first real feature when he was 40. He said he'd been out of film school for 13 years and it was driving him nuts that he wasn't making films. The thing about these days is it's entirely possible to do an ultra low budget film with everything being digital... but will it be up to my almost unrealistic standards? I don't think it would.

Of course I dont know your particuler situation, so don't think i'd single you out, I mean this for everyone.
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I've got a great job that pulls in about 50k a year and practically no bills. I don't plan to quit my day job soon (even though it is just a day job and I'd love to not be doing it anymore). If I actually made up my mind and decided to go the HVX route I'd have to spend X amount of dollars on the camera, the storage device, the lighting, the audio, the better computer to edit HD and effects, etc. etc. ... it gets quite overwhelming for me...

EDIT: After posting this and reading it, it doesn't really capture the essence of what I'm trying to say, so I hope it kind of makes sense... :)
 
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BFA Film University of the Arts/Minor Screenwriting

Full time Editor for a high end corporate and event company, along with freelancing videography, editing, motion fx to other companies and own clients on the side.

Slowly starting up a studio of my own

Also will be teaching film at UArts parttime next Spring - always good to go back LOL.

Not married.
 
21 in November! :beer:

Third Year Film and Television student at Savannah College of Art and Design, GA

Bought the HVX/M2 to make myself a portfolio and free myself from depending on renting our schools cams, plus they don't have no stinkin' HVX's.

The money would of probably been better spent on a car, but I am an avid bicyclist so it works out.

Wanted to be a director since I was 12, but am becoming more and more interested in cinematography and am considering becoming a DP.....

The best type of visual art (in my subjective opinion) would be music videos and narrative films.

Music videos being the surreal, creative, and strange types. NOT the cliche rap vids or band vids where the band just plays on a stage with some crappy drama subplot. (Sorry if I offend anyone that makes those, just not my style)

And don't get me wrong there are great Rap videos out there. Off the top of my head: Almost all kanye west vids, Common 'Testify', 'Sabatoge' Beastie Boys, Jay Z '99 problems was good..... I am not gonna go on anymore about this.

My music video influences would be M. Gondry, Chris Milk, C. White, S. Jonze, jonas Åckerlund, Jonathan Dayton, C. Cunningham, oh and did I say CHRIS MILK? :)

My aspirations are to direct music videos and jump to the big screen like Gondry (Eternal Sunshine, Science of Sleep), Dayton (Little Miss Sunshine), Jonze (Where the Wild Things Are (in production)), and many others have done.

Whew. That is all I want to disclose at this present time and place. :lipsrseal
 
tommyinla said:
EDIT: After posting this and reading it, it doesn't really capture the essence of what I'm trying to say, so I hope it kind of makes sense... :)
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I think I understand. I don't know if this will catch the essence of what you want to say but:
It's like moving out of your house with two days notice. Seems pretty overwhelming but you can do it if you take breaks and don't try to carry everything out at once.

After that all you have to do is realize the 2 day notice was placed there by none other than yourself.
Good luck my friend.
 
GlimmerGhost said:
It's like moving out of your house with two days notice. Seems pretty overwhelming but you can do it if you take breaks and don't try to carry everything out at once.

After that all you have to do is realize the 2 day notice was placed there by none other than yourself.
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Great analogy. And yes, that's a huge part of what I feel like...

Good luck my friend.
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Thanks. :)
 
Thought this was a great thread and will eventually make it all the way through it. For the record:
Started cutting mag stripe on a steenbeck and cutting drama and variety on an RA 4000 and 4 AVR1's.Thank God quad is dead.Now if you know what that means then you know why I was one of the first to jump on an AVID and buy an NLE. Frist video camera I shot with was a TK76.
Exectuive producer/director for 25 years worked around the world and love the biz.
Sold business(3 )_in June of 2006,went on sabbatical and bought a DVX in July.Shoot as often as I can and love to learn and DVX User has been AWESOME!
Will complete my MA Video and Film production by the end of the year and begin my PhD (small screen and just-in-time learning) in the spring of 07.
Live in Monteal and sometimes Toronto.
No gold teeth, not a virgin (at 55?)can't wait to make a decision on a 35mm adapter and happy to be back in the field and not running a production company.
 
18

freshman attending VCU in Richmond, Va going to major in film production

someday going to be a DP

pretty much just strait chillin at college. god it's fun.
 
MY info

MY info

16 years of age
High School Student
Filmmaker
Trumpet player and music composer
I am still a virgin unlike 80% of my High School class, although 90% of those ademantly deny it.
I own no pets.
Oh and I like the History Channel...maybe that's why I'm a virgin.
 
Hi guys, I am Vincent, a new member here. I am from Malaysia.

I am 22 years old, was an Engineering drop out, then entered Mass Comm where I found my calling in filmmaking. Currently in the final year and final semester of my course. I am majoring in Film and TV Productions.

I am also a freelance DP and I guess what you all would term freelance videographer. I have worked on various corporate videos, shot a concert, shot a documentary, filling in from time to time as the Lighting Director for my juniors, did three of my own short films (one using the Canon XL1 and two using the DVX102), and have shot a feature length film for a local independant director (using the Sony FX1 and in black and white no less!!!). I am also currently in the middle of shooting another one for my lecture, another local independent director.

I will shoot my fourth short film this year before I am out of Uni for good.

I love horror movies and noir, and was greatly inspired by the filmmaking methods of Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriquez. I also love movies with postmodern themes and Memento and Akira Kurosawa's Roshamon remain one of my favourite movies ever.

I also have a healthy dose of obsession with Samurai films (Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Sanjuro), and spaghetti westerns (The Man With No Name Trilogy).

Influenced by a dark period in my life, all my shorts have similiar recurring themes of dread, surrealness, bleakness, suicide, destructiveness, tragic love, and death.

First and foremost, I love being a DP. I love the idea of painting with lights. My lighting style was influenced by horror movies and noir for that dark contrasting look. I am getting better at it and now can't wait to try out even more technique in my next project.

You guys are a cool bunch here.
 
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