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How does one make locations look good?
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You could ask the guild if you could job shadow a real DP or take an internship of some kind as an unpaid grip, and just observe what the pro does. Remarkable how much you can pick up by observing and osmosing.
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Okay thanks, but I still need people to help and I can’t wear all the hats can I? I mean I’m already director and production sound mixer and editor most of the time, so shouldn’t I leave the DP to another hat, rather than take on that one too?
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It’s just I have these other projects coming up I am directing as well, and don’t really have time or the money to go another city and get an unpaid job learning, when I don’t even want to be a DP, and would rather just stick to director and editor to build towards. So therefore, shouldn’t I still look for, an hire another DP?
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blah blah blah, can’t do this, can’t do that; you are freaking Hamlet over here. Always with an excuse not to do something. It’s trolleriffically boring. Look, I’ve always tried to cheer new people on and encourage them. I try to be diplomatic and supportive, to a fault, and I try to keep my criticism constructive… Others here have, too. You just keep throwing it back in our faces.
I think you’re in love with the *idea* of being a film maker, but the way you go about all of this, it’s never going to go anywhere for you, not with your attitude…
You reject opportunities to learn the craft, then wonder why your projects come out… the way they do.
You ask for advice, then never take it, always whining back with an excuse why you can’t apply it.
You claim you study film; you throw around random tech and historical references, but never seem try to apply the most basic, straightforward techniques, because, I don’t know, they’re boring or too obvious or something, you’re claiming you’re trying to challenge and improve yourself, but won’t learn the basics and get them solid first…? You only want to be avant-garde or something.
I recommend some time-out to deeply, deeply re-assess your life choices. Get counseling. Maybe try welding school.
(His next reply will, true to form, go something like: “Okay, thanks… what kind of counselor should I go see, and should they know something about film? I don’t want to research the difference between a psychoanalyst and a therapist, because Google isn’t a thing; can someone lay it out for me? Do they have to be local, or are they better in Toronto or Quebec? I can’t afford to go to those places, by the way, because reasons, but thought I should ask anyway, just so I can get you to say sure, go, whatever, and then say I can’t afford to go to them. Though I’ll then deny I don’t have money… never said I don’t have money… I have plenty of money, I just can’t spend any of it on the basic things I need for the job, because I might not have enough for the exotic and inappropriate thing I want to buy and use in the wrong way, that has nothing to do with the job at hand, and would actually ruin the entire project, and I don’t want to rent the exotic thing I totally can so afford, because that’s too hard and I can’t manage the timing, because my volunteers control my schedule… but I’m pushing ahead with more productions, even though my current ones aren’t finished…that way I have an excuse not to start the new thing AND not to finish the old thing, at the same time… I was told I was unresponsive to advice and counseling, so maybe I should just keep going in circles, doing what has not been working for me, yet again, instead? But I’ve always done that clockwise; is there a professional reason to do it counter-clockwise, and does that still hold valid when I shoot in Australia? Because I’m not going to Australia. But I wanted a professional opinion on it. My friends say Tasmania is cooler though. Except in the summer. Does it matter if the counselor has one of those fainting couches, or can I sit in a regular chair? Should the chair be ergonomic? In case I have back problems? I don’t. Have back problems, that is. But I thought I’d ask, just so that once you spend time answering that, I can say it didn’t matter… and then I’ll stand, or I’ll maybe get one of those big, bouncy inflated ball chair things, but what color should it be, because I think that’s really important to my process… Should I watch movies with psychiatrists in them, before the counseling, to get a perspective on the process? And which ones from obscure directors would be best? Or should I just go to the local Timmies and chat up the counterman over Timbits and coffee? (Which coffee? Because I wanna talk at length about the coffee choices, then tell you I don’t drink it, I actually drink tea. Or more accurately, KambuCha, which I ferment at home, but it doesn’t come out tasting professional, despite me not following the brewing instructions I got from three different Kambucha forums and using a bean tin for the fermentation cell; I want to be a trail-blazer of Kombucha, so I throw in different things to make experimental infusions, and I don’t know why the last guy to drink some of it was hospitalized, I didn’t have the money to go to the hospital to ask him and find out… okay, I *did* have hospital money, but something about the lime Jello there was just bugging me, it’s not pro enough…The Tim Horton’s countermen are.. they’re like, kind of like a bartender, and bartenders listen to people and give advice, right? At least they do in movies. Or maybe Dunkin Donuts would be better? I could go to one in Toronto… but my car isn’t up to the trip, I really want a Lotus Esprit to make that trip, but I’m saving up for a Maybach with snow tires in front and duallies on the back. The car I use, after I didn’t listen to the guy at the garage, I took two wheels off, so technically, it would be a motorcycle, but it doesn’t handle like the Ducati’s at the track do, I don’t know if it’s my technique, maybe I can send you a video of that for analysis….would YouTube be good enough for that, or should I use Vimeo for higher quality? I don’t know why you people refuse to help me by taunting me with advice I asked for but refuse to take. Hey, do you smell burnt toast, all of a sudden?” )
(falls on floor, frothing and spasming. Nobody reacts.)
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Hey Mark,
Glad you took the effort.
(Tried to flag troll myself a couple of times but that seemed without effect.)
Do note that I got posts pulled for way less, but I totally agree, and hope this one stays!Bouke
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Okay thanks, you’re right. It’s just I was going to start a new a short film and look for a DP, but wonder if I should delay it now, to learn from a DP instead.
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I also find it would very difficult to be DP, director, and production sound mixer all at the same time if I have to be. How do other filmmakers do it?
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Okay thanks. I know this isn’t a cinematography question but is there anything I could be doing differently with the sound as well?
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