Big Mistakes Filmmakers Must Stop Making
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- Today, we're going through the 7 Mistakes I made along my cinematography and Filmmaking Career that has slowed me down.
I thought it would be important to highlight these, as we're in 2024, and these are great times to reflect and spend time learning.
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Timestamps:
0:00-0:14 Intro
0:14-1:55 Mistake 1
1:55-3:42 Mistake 2
3:42-4:58 Mistake 3
4:58-5:50 Mistake 4
5:50-6:51 Mistake 5
6:51-7:57 Mistake 6
7:57-9:23 Mistake 7
9:23-9:44 Learn 
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Thanks, One man band here on 95% of my projects , everything from the idea, Filming, lighting and editing... Today more than 90% of clients have lowered their budgets and financially it makes more sense for me to do just about everything myself accept for an assistant or 2 when needed... On other bigger jobs I try to hire as many people as I need or allows the Budget... But also most of my clients are doing reels and "simple" advertising and social media videos...
This is a great lesson!
No one cares if you can do it all, they want to know if you can work within a team!
There are plenty of folks who really want to be an cinematographer, an editor, a PA, a scriptwriter, a director.
You can always find a team willing to try.
Amazing Tipps! Thank you for this video. Really great advice. Best advice you can get when someone is talking from experience.
Thanks Justin! Appreciate you for watching
A lot of these tips are great for general creativity. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
All great tips. I'm in the transitioning to team phase myself and the efficiency to have more time to get a variety of shots was so overlooked. Good reminder going into the new year about setting goals.
Yeah, getting time back is such an important part of working in teams. Hoping you have a great year!
@@TenfoldProduction likewise man, looking forward to all the cool work you share this year
Excellent video. Thank you for your insight and journey. Inspiring to say the least. Please keep up with this type of content.
Thank you so much for watching. We really appreciate the support, we have tons more coming out this month!
Great video! Happy new year Tenfold!
Thanks Matt! Right back at you!
Really enjoyed this video bro! Best of luck in the new year 🎉
You as well! Have a great year and thanks for watching
love your ideas. would pay for coaching from you in a heartbeat!
Thanks Jake! Appreciate that, we are hoping to provide more direct help in the near future!
A very satisfying video. Thank you bro. Happy new year 2024 God bless !!
Thanks for watching. Appreciate it
Excellent video! So many important topics. I obsessed over gear in the beginning, probably because I’m an artist, and LOVE having tools within reach.
Once I started thinking about my financial future and business, I saw how the the gear lust had to be tamed😂.
I also want to collaborate with other people, as the one-man-banding is exhausting.
You hit it bang on! Haha once all those things are put into perspective, gear suddenly wasn’t as important. The one man band change was one of the biggest game changers for us.
Regarding tip #1: people who even have very basic knowledge of filmmaking, the set hierarchy etc. will understand that just because it’s a bigger crew, and not just one person who did it, it doesn’t mean your part of the whole project becomes meaningless. In fact it makes a more complex production possible in the first place. Especially the term cinematographer / dp in the credits will clarify what you did in this project.
I really like the the lighting that you use for talking head, and I agree with mistake about obsessing over gear. I realize that I need to learn understand the basics and appreciate the gear that I have now.
Thanks appreciate it! The gear conversation is such a nuanced one. What do you feel like you’d like to learn more of?
Loving these and the breakdown videos 🙏🏽 dig that slow shutter / Christopher Doyle effect and am curious how you achieved it?
Thanks so much! We have a video coming out soon about this topic!
Thanks for this! Video production is a team sport all the way. If you don’t like working on a team, then you might be working with the wrong people. If you spend some time finding like-minded people in your market, your work quality will definitely improve.
Exactly, you got it! Team work is the key to all things!
teamwork is good tip frequently rewatching the towering inferno (1974) 2 cinematographers / 2 directors informative content.
Thanks John for the feedback, and support. We definitely need to check that out!
Love the video! When i signed up for the free lighting guide I received an email to subscribe to the email list but I never got the guide. Is there a way to grab it? Thanks
dude this video was all i need
thank you
Thanks for watching! Glad it was helpful!
With the mistake 3 is something that most of the people does. Sadly nowadays the people puts more effort in the gear that is use and dont take care about what is really matters, whats in front of the lens, the story. Thats what separates a videographer from a cinematographer💡
Yeah we definitely fell for this when we were earlier in our careers! It’s almost like a right of passage haha. Thanks for watching
Amazing Video Bro
Thanks David!
I want to add two more mistake:
- being “arrogant” and thinking that A you don’t need to put in hard work to get further and B being too scared or comfortable to make mistakes in that process
- we have no problem spending hundreds of dollars on equipment even if weren’t sure if we will use it in regular basis or if it pays if in the end. but we are too greedy, unwilling, lazy and maybe even arrogant to invest money in knowledge (workshops, online courses, books, magazines etc.)
SUPER soild advice 🙏🙏🙏
Thanks for watching
This is the video that i needed
Glad this was helpful for you! Thanks for watching
GREAT tips and that shirt is FIRE
Thanks Josh! Appreciate you 🤘🏽
what happened to the old set? that looked way too good & cozy
It’s still there! We’ll be switching back and fourth from it. Thanks for watching all the time haha
The ONE and ONLY thing that matters when making a film is the writing which has something relevant to say (i.e. the TRUTH about the human condition), relatable to the audience, can practically be translated into film narrative, and gives actors something to do. If the content/context is meaningful, the audience will forgive anything (see and enjoy priceless Ed Wood films). The biggest mistake filmmakers do is to buy into the elitist film mythology and the archaic language of film as perpetuated by videos such as this one, like some sort of cult religion. How many fine art "masterpieces" break the rules? Answer: all of them. In recent years technology has made anything possible and yet film itself hasn't advanced in 100 years, repeating the same old themes with an opening, conflict, resolution, ending which tells the audience what they already know without originality, insight, wisdom, observation, context, minus education and barely entertaining because the images flicker. The narrator of this video talks of "the industry", except film narrative as we presently know it is dying fast. Who is paying for "outside the box" innovative experimentation? The new film American Fiction points to the problem and the solution. I've literally seen thousands of films, and not one shows a woman, black or gay person that I have known or heard about, not one reflects the experiences I've had in my lifetime, including this video. Talk, talk, talk to no end -- a one-man band (which I have done for over forty years) is the only way to go -- on your own terms without needless compromise and having to justify your art to anyone. This video-maker is still making mistakes (the biggest being using the template of the Industrial Age manufacturing of entertainment to build a career -- as an employee -- when we're in the Information Age wherein ALL of show business has been flattened into "VOD streaming content") and he hasn't self-actualized that populace talking heads on social media is a tremendous waste of time and counter-productive to his goals. Trends fade. Great art lives, changing formats to survive. Who are you aimed at? If you already know this stuff, it seems remedial and self-evident. If you don't know this and you're making films, chances are, you won't learn. Stop thinking you "have to put yourself OUT THERE" and somehow, someday you'll be "discovered". Instead, set doable goals and then do them -- the process is the reward and the success, not the results. It's insulting to the audience to project they're too dumb to realize the conclusions you've come to, an admission in public of your own limitations. Why? Old saying: There are several films for every film -- the one you think of, the one you write, the one you shoot, the one you edit, and the one people THINK they see. Same here. Your intentions may be good, but the lacking critical thinking is evident in the presentation by making yourself look to not be taken seriously as a faux "authority" who is currently just as unaware of "mistakes" as the personal history you speak of and project outward to the world. Yet, you want people to work with you and someone to hire you. Develop other skills and sources of income as most of show business will be obsolete in your lifetime, like coal miners and horse carriages were at the Turn of the Century. Good luck.
How do you decline jobs and keep the bills paid?
Well definitely make a video about this topic and feedback! Thanks for watching
@@TenfoldProduction thank you!!
David cross gives good info