Can you count me in...in like...5 years? lol..
Sounds like an awesome idea, if i wasnt a student i would have definetly been up for it. Good luck anyway 🙂

"...and that's how the cookie crumbles..."

ok norman, let's get some basic fact straight....I'm an american if you can get over that fact then we'll shake the bowels of this wreched industry. Imagination?...got tons My mother was early 80's tv
know good story format...My father was early 90's indie films good sense of story format. Writer's of interest? Chuck palunuk; neal cassidy, willam borrows and E.E Cummings (I have aquired tastes) plus I'm ready to learn(more then I do) I'm willing to collaberate and I'm willing to work for free...if the vision and passion is there. I'll pay my own way, but might need A place to be stowed away. Did I mention i work cheap? oh, well... hoping you've have lost heart get in contact at christianhalliburt?sbcglobal.net

Christian H

starting a production company? thats really really hard man. Like writing scripts and making movies and sending them into film festivals is nothing. I mean, a single well directed film maker can get first place at a film competition over a group of people in one so called "company".

Like yes, its an idea, but have people put money or send money to a starting "production company" isnt the smartest thing in the land. I mean, you have a 95% of not succeeding.

What gets me is that people underestimate the fact the FILM is ones of the hardest industries to get into. If you dont take time, and learn, and study the art of film, your chances of getting in are slim.

Im 17 and i have been workin in film for about two years now. And a TIP to all those new filmmakers.

LEARN! LEARN! LEARN!

Learn about editing, lighting, camera angles, script writing, proof reading, exciting plots, special effects, programs, cameras, types of film, dialouge, acting, directing, producting, anything related to film. Study it. And if you newcomers have not reached college, and you enjoy film a lot. GET INTO A GREAT FILM COLLEGE! IT WILL HELP TREMENDOUSLY!!

Film takes money and patience. Cameras are expensive! But gradually progress.

-Greg

Fantastic Firsts, Sloppy Seconds, Tickilish Thirds, Filthy Fourths, Fouling Fifths, Slippity Slappy Sixths, and the Seventh person scrapes her off the mattrass

Greg,

I hear what you're say man, but it's also important to stop talking about what you might do, or want to do and just do it. You learn more in the doing than you ever could by reading or listening. And as for 95% chance of not succeeding, where did that come from? Making great films has little to do with luck, it's about imagination, determination and talent. If you put together a group that has those things, anything's possible!! As for going to film school, does that not just teach people to make formulaic films, do A and B to get to C. Does anyone want to make pointless pop corn films? If you have a love for film then watch everyone you can find. Read the scripts. Dissect them and find out why they did or didn't work for you. Try it yourself, write a script, buy a camera and play around. But most of all develope your own voice and style and never be afraid to be different, trust your own ideas.

I sympathize with norman (and not just for the job) but The one most important thing that all vocabulary of the art world ...and all the insights and techneques of the craft all lead to the eventual understanding that no one and I mean NO one knows what the formula for success in this business takes. Yes, formal education is key, but it is only a tool just as everything learn is to help in sticky situations, but...let's just say that some of the most educated people in the business will tell you that all the artistic development will do nothing for when your movie goes into opening weekend.

i understand you norman, but would you want to take a risk that can lead into suffering? I mean, yes, anyone can make a film. Movies i watch, i re watch them, this time, studying the camera angles, lighting, dialouge. But Norm, start the production comapany. I give all my luck to you, as for me, i dont really want in. so i awnser you question. ?:D?

Fantastic Firsts, Sloppy Seconds, Tickilish Thirds, Filthy Fourths, Fouling Fifths, Slippity Slappy Sixths, and the Seventh person scrapes her off the mattrass

Hi,

I'm up for it. I'm currently trying to find a group of like-minded filmmaker's in London. I'm doing all the learning while holding down a 9-5 job which I hope to shed one day.

I've got a dv camera (a nice jvc gy-dv700 and a homemade editing computer); a few scripts and some ideas. When do we start?

Ray

PS Getting into Film school is great but not the only way

What's my name?
Bernardo! Bernardo.
You're damn right...

Ok, bottom line, we're all trying to do the same thing, make good films. So we don't agree on film school. I think you'd all agree that history has proved both ways can work, but neither are easy. As for it being a risk, course it is, any work in this area is, but as long as you're doing it for the right reasons, i.e. not money, you'll always come out on top, having learnt new skills. So to all of you I wish the best of luck. I hope you all make the film you want to and it beats every record there is and wins every award it can, 'cause mine will 😉

I'd love to help but I'm only 16. Maybe we can collaborate in a few years.

Hi Norman,

I'm only 17 and i do live all the way down in Kent. I do have some film making ideas, but i don't really know how to write a script.

I also want to start making films, but many of my ideas either need a big budget or a lot of actors 2 make them work (neither of which i actually have) so if you ever want some scripts them if you know how to write them and if you can can give me tips, i'll happily do so.

Also, if Kent isn't too far away from where you are, i wouldn't mind acting in one of your films (i don't do drama, but i could act or help to direct-unfortunately though i don't have any money).

MATT

Comming soon.....