Ammar Quteineh
Director|Cinematographer |||France|||
an ambtious filmmaker from Jerusalem, recently residing in Paris and working as Director and Director of Photography.
Please Visit my links for more information about me and my work:
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/ammar-quteineh/90/286/126
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5407749/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
https://www.youtube.com/user/ammarthedirector/videos
"Those are the stories you should tell. The stories that are closest to you" Well Said.
this is an excellent example to show the people out there who are dying in buying the most recent expensive cinema equipments to go back to the zero point and start out with the story.
especially for the technical guys out there who are thinking obtaining a red-scarlet can make them a filmmakers.
Cinema is about STORY. Not Equipments at all.
Smart Filmmakers are Not Necessarily Technical At All. I know some name hollywood directors who taught me and they do not give any damn to know anything at all about technical camera tools for example.
Yes they have Hollywood budget. But before thinking of any budget (they dont think of it anyway) they got the Story in their mind and heart.
Cinema is Telling a Stories. Telling stories is about the way you tell it (Visually+sound) and not by which damn camera u used anyway.
Congrats for the film. And I hope we get more questions from the ambitious filmmakers around this website about the pure process of filmmaking.
Story. Analysing..Directing Actors..Interpreting and transforming the story Visually (Shot List)...Shooting for Editing...EDITING (Walter Murch and "The Rule of Six" )
There are Lot subjects to know And Need for better Visual Film than the pure technical subject.
Guys for the sake of reality and I am talking from my Personal Experience (I have a Master degree in Film Directing and Cinematography ([[ costed me at least 95,583.45$ ]]) and I was taught by Name Hollywood Directors=many of them, Including Bobby Roth [Prison Break] and Bill Tannin)
You will NEVER Ever HEAR Anything better than what Hollywood Director Robert Rodriguez said in his - Rebel Without a Crew - Book.
It is always better to hear from Someone who already went to Filmschool (like Robert Rodriguez or any other filmmaker, me for example)
The Gold Notes that he wrote in his book are more than to be quoted from. They are A LOT.
Howerver, I'll put for u the best of what he said concerning this subject (anyway his entire book is about it):
* If you want to be a filmmaker and you can't afford film school, know that you don't really learn anything in film school anyway. (He Doesn't mean it literally of course bcz He Learned Something from filmschool, me too..but he mention this in relates of the LOT money that you pay to film school.
* You learn to tell stories by telling stories. And you want to discover your own way of doing things.
* In school they also don't teach you how to make a movie when you have no money and no crew. They teach you how to make a big movie with a big crew so that when you graduate you can go to Hollywood and get a job pulling cables on someone else's movie.
* I was inventing my own film school where I would be the only student and where experiences, mistakes, problems, and solutions would be my teachers.
* END OF QUOTINGS, HEAD TO THE BOOK TO READ IT*
I met Steven Spielberg, my friend met him too, anyway my friend said:
When I asked steven spielberg what he thinks about film schools he said "it's a waste of time and money" and I couldn't agree more!
Is there any good about film schools?
definitely YES.
Is there any good about film schools That U can't get without It?
definitely NO.
You only need to be in the state of mind of the position that you like to work (Director, Cinematographer ect), U have to know your responsibility and what you expect the others to do. Improve yourself (Learn from short extensive workshops, read some Must Books) And DO what U need to do.
Director? U need to tell stories, if u think u cant tell stories except after paying 90,000$ of your family money to film school then Forget it.
Cinematographer? Bienvenu we are in 2015. Start-up standard Equipments are cheap to buy. Expensive equipments are cheap to rent. (as Hollywood director Robert Rodriguez said: U dont need Fancy stuff to make your film looks great. U must make it looks great with something u afford.
[ U cant read Robet' Book? Ok check out his videos on YouTube]
[ U cant go to YouTube and u are reading this? OK here's a link of Robert 10min Film School]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-YpfievjSk
correction: Magic Lantern: use Raw2DNG for exporting your raw to DNG file, import your DNG in Davinci Resolve for either color grading or exporting prores for editing. after editing EXPORT XML from your editing software and import it to Davinic, you tell Davinci to sync your xml with your original DNG files...
Thanks Ragüel Cremades !