Watch: How to Teach Yourself the Basics of Filmmaking in 30 Days | No Film School

Whether you're a stubborn autodidact or just don't want to deal with years of crushing student loan debt, there's nothing wrong with learning the art of filmmaking all on your own. There are tons of great books, blogs, and videos out there that can teach you so much about the basics of making a film, but if the plethora of resources is making you dizzy and wonder where to start, filmmaker Darious Britt has mapped out a 30-day crash course that will teach you everything you need to know about getting started in filmmaking, from choosing the right camera settings to correctly lighting a scene. Check out the video below:

As usual, Britt's video is fantastic and offers so much great insight, but here's what I really love about it: it challenges you to pick up your camera and learn the damn basics.

It's easy to get ahead of yourself as a new filmmaker. You want to become the next great director so bad and you don't really know that your ambition is miles ahead of your abilities, so you go out guns blazing, shoot a bad film, and then get discouraged because it didn't meet your expectations. The worst thing of all, though, is that you probably didn't learn as much from shooting that bad film as you would have taking the time to learn all of the basic, as boring as they might be.

And you know what, I definitely echo Britt's sentiment about growing into bigger projects. I had to go through the same boring process of learning the basics in film school—literally having to go out and shoot 10 different high and low angle shots, 10 different POVs, 10 different tracking, panning, blah blah blah it was horribly repetitive and I couldn't stand it. But you know what? I learned the damn basics, and the films and videos I made afterward were way different than the ones I made before I ever cracked open a filmmaking book—they were better—I mean they were still horrible, but, you know—better.

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What's the Hype With 'Interstellar' Revisiting Cinemas After a Decade in 70mm IMAX?

Here's Why You Need to Revisit 'Interstellar' in 70mm IMAX

Celebrate the love and hope at the center of Nolan's space epic in the format it was meant to be seen.

If we know anything about Christopher Nolan, he likes to go big. Nolan started with smaller-scale stories (as many of us do) with early noir adjacent works like Following, Memento, and Insomnia, then started going and staying big with his illusionist drama The Prestige. Since then, the scale has been various degrees of massive, with the biggest scope in his time-and-space sprawling epic, Interstellar.

While Interstellarmight not be everyone's favorite Nolan outing, there's no denying it's an impressive feat of filmmaking and his most emotional—if watching Matthew McConaughey's Cooper desperately try to reach his family through quantum space-time doesn't make you cry at least a little bit, what's going on, dude?

With Interstellar'sIMAX release, it's a great time to shed some tears in a public setting in one of the most prestigious film formats around. As we mentioned in our film gauge piece, Nolan loves shooting on film and utilizes 65mm intentionally to provoke a tone of massive scale. In that regard, Interstellar was made for 70mm IMAX. That goes without saying, dawg. That being said, other factors make Interstellar a perfect movie to revisit in theaters while you can.

Let's break down the release further below.

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