Ryan Elder
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There were times when I thought it could have been better, but other times when it seemed satisfactory at the time. But I am going by other people’s opinions, when they saw the final edits after, mostly.
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Okay thanks. Since I’m told that I could use better actors and a better DP, what would be the best way to find the, where I live then?
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Well I’ve been thinking about it, and one thing I have been told by a few others before is that I should really bring in actors and crew from another city, like Vancouver or Toronto, cause they have a lot more talented actors and DPs there compared to where I live.
Do you think so, and that it would be worth it, so the acting has a chance of being better, as well as the cinematography?
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I also read this book on filmmaking, which I got while in film school, but maybe this book hasn’t helped much?
ISBN-13: 978-0452297289
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Also, is there anywhere I can find other DPs to work with? I live in Saskatchewan, Canada right now, and I feel that my shots would look better, if I could find a better DP to work with, if there is any place I should be looking particularly?
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Okay thanks. There seems to be an impression on here that I don’t have a tripod. I have one, why do people think I don’t?
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Oh okay thank you very much. Sorry I don’t mean to troll, I seriously want to learn and some of the advice, I find to be kind of contradictory, and just trying to weed out the exceptions to the rules, that’s all.
I am going to try to look in different places for better actors.
As for my shot composition and framing, what can I do to improve there? I was told it was bad before, but I wasn’t sure what I could do to improve.
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Oh okay thanks.
There seems to be an attitude on here, that these questions are keeping me from making movies. But that’s not true. I just finished a movie and am editing it now, and I have made other short films before that. So I feel that it’s okay to discuss what techniques I want to do, and how to do them, and if they will work, but there seems to be an attitude on here, that I should just shoot a movie, without any effort put into the shots, at all, other than just turning on a camera and shooting.
Is there a reason why I should keep on doing that and not advancing at all?
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Okay thanks, I thought about that, but I was worried that the audience would lose it’s sense of direction. Cause here we are on an actor’s face, and then all of a sudden it cuts to a room, and then audience has to reorient where they are, and where that actor is, far in the background now.
So I thought that a fast zoom would still help keep their sense of direction, rather than a straight cut, where of all sudden they may not know where they are now.
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I guess I didn’t want to do the whole have the audience try to put pieces together as the camera moves back. I wanted to pull back really fast, so the audience can see everything in the room at once and be surprised in one quick go, rather than putting pieces together as it pulls back. Hence why I wanted to do the snap zoom cause it pulls back much faster than a stabilizer.