Student Films

[The Amazing Lee]

is that your film mr socko?

 

[The Amazing Lee]

That is SO great. t:

 

[hey yo its sean]

Surprisingly, no one in my graduating class made your cliched "film school" film for their thesis projects. I've seen my share though.

 

[black_dust]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5058529870025933880

That was ****ing cool as hell, is it yours?

 

[Cinemaman]

Good on you.

It's good to have inspiration, even if it is from them directors...it's just when you think you want to BECOME them. It's not about that. It's about melding other styles to make your own.

Yep, I am agreed with you.

I want to be good filmmaker, not just famous.

I think the real inspiration comes from not just vissualy great but also good narrative films.

Most students think that the main part in their films is vissual style and effective shots. That's wrong. The main part is the story idea and script structure, so that's why only few people get green light to making real movies.

 

[Cinemaman]

oh get the **** over yourself.


I'm a student filmmaker and I'd say it's impossible to not draw a little something here and there from Tarantino. If you hadn't seen one of his films, chances are you wouldn't know what traditional cinema is because the guy still tries to incorporate traditional style into his technique.

But to give you some credit, I do have to agree with you on the dumb shorts. A career is to be taken seriously, so if you're going to do a short film, do it right and don't aim for the youtube audience.

people have told me to post my shorts on youtube (Break Out was 25 mins and The Duality of Men was 12). I've out-right yelled in their faces that I refuse to become an internet star like these little dip****s have tried to do:

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=ShotgunSalmon

i have connections to the "director" though a mutual friend, and i've outright told him to stop making movies. it's a disgrace.

seriously, the youtube craze is getting ridiculous. I refuse to become a part of that, I'll post my little trailers up on it, but never my movies. Someone has to take a stand.

Huh? I saw all his films, and I think he is very good filmmaker, but this doesn't mean students and maybe future faces of Hollywood should copy scenes or dialogues from his films. What else can inspire you? Early films of RR. If I was looking for films or books as inspiration, I would make research for the mix of different films to analyze them (for example, any Chaplin film+Citizen Kane+Memento+Blade Runner(it's actually more than just sci-fi classic)+Being John Malkovich+The Usual Suspects+Twelve Monkeys). And there are different ways how to make something unique and at the same time new for usual formula of film. You can take something from classic masterpieces and new era films, and then ideas will come to your mind and open new doors for you. I would advice you to read STORY by Robert McKee

Yep, that's a good point. The real filmmaker must create something new that others scratch their heads over.

I'll watch them as soon as I have free time

 

[Cinemaman]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5058529870025933880

That's one of the funniest short films I ever watched, great spoof and I like ideas of how Lucas got the views of his characters Nice job.