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.. .. And he says anything that you have when you're younger, save it for when you're older. If you make little home movies now, save the ideas because you never know. You could turn them into a movie when you're older. /// I'm always making home movies with my friends. I'm always writing and coming up with crazy, different ideas. It's fun writing action stuff but I really enjoy writing real-life drama things. /// |
I've
written like three [screenplays]. It’s crazy. I’ve had a lot of fun with
them. ...
I really want to go to [film school at] either USC or UCLA. ... A lot of people say, "Well, you're already on set, you already have the hands-on experience. Why even go to film school? It's a waste of time." I want to go, one, for the experience of college. Two, because I want to know more about the background. I can see the camera but I don't know exactly how it works. I want to know every little detail. I want to know the history behind film. I think it's very interesting. So I'd definitely like to go to college [and] get the experience that I need. Alexa Vega from
about.com article
Alexa Vega Takes the Lead in Her
photo by Lester Cohen (Copyright WireImage.com) |
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I've thought about writing/directing for awhile now, but I always thought I'd wait until years from now - it always seemed a bit inaccessible. But lately I've been acting in a bunch of independent films, and I saw first hand how you can put together a film for a very low budget. ...
[Advice to anyone thinking about making a short film:] Do it! Whatever your resources, just play and have fun and express yourself. It's a wonderful process, and terribly addictive!
Danica McKellar - from site for her film Speechless speechlessthemovie.com
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I made my first documentary, Boyz in Tights, when I was seven. I got annoyed at people telling me I was gay because I danced ballet, so I thought, 'Why don't I do a movie about it?' ... Company name: Shut Up Kid Productions - because everybody I know has told me to shut up. ... I've been asked to direct my first Hollywood picture, a kid film called Camp Grizzly. I also want to help people make documentaries. I want to give back the things that I've learned.
Chaille Stovall, 13, film director, Party Animals quote from TeenPeople.com ; photo from timeforkids.com
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NEW YORK (Reuters, August 16, 2001) - Think Charlie Brown in pigtails.
Think ''South Park'' with Asian-Americans. Think Hello Kitty cute packaged
in a girl with an acid tongue.Put that all together and you would have something like the Angry Little Asian Girl.
The Angry Little Asian Girl is a cartoon character who has emerged over the past few
years as a Web hero, an alternative animation star and a staple of humor dispensed from
the mouth of a sugary-sweet girl who has a bone to pick with anyone who will not
give an Asian-American a fair shake.The girl, named Kim, stars along with a few cartoon friends in a cartoon strip and
Web site visited by about 1 million people a month, angrylittleasiangirl.com.``Kim is short, misunderstood, frustrated and cute,'' Lela Lee, 26, the creator of the
character, said... Lee, an actress with numerous TV and screen credits as well as her own
burgeoning cartoon career, said she dreamed up the character after watching an animation
festival and being upset about the chauvinistic characters she had seen on the screen.
---interview:---Lela Lee
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Jordan Miller, 14, has more than a dozen digital videos to his credit, and is the youngest filmmaker
to screen his work at the X-Dance action-sports film festival in Park City, Utah.A spinoff of the Sundance Film Festival, X-Dance showcases action sports films by professional filmmakers
and name-brand athletes..."Most kids his age are playing Nintendo. Jordan's at this huge editing bay at home, playing Apple Final Cut Pro,"
says Brian Wimmer, former "China Beach" star and X-Dance organizer who saw Jordan's work and invited him
to participate in the festival.Jordan and his friends shoot footage with a variety of cameras, from mini-DVs to traditional 8mm, then transfer
the content into the Power Mac and Final Cut Pro using FireWire. Jordan's bedroom doubles as his video
production studio, which includes:Power Mac 450MHZ, 256MB Memory with 2 37GB Hard Drives
Two 19-inch displays 13-inch Sony Studio display
Canon digital camcorder with Beachtek XLR and wide-angle lens adapters
Sony digital 8 camcorder Sennheiser Shotgun microphone with Gitzo fishpole boom
Bogen fluid head tripod NRG lighting kit [above material from apple.com story]
***book: Final Cut Pro For Macintosh by Lisa Brenneis
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scene from "Beef Chop"
Brad Schaffer, a 14-year-old from the small town of Benton City, WA, just sold his first movie --
to HBO. [He] makes all of his movies on iMacs.Schaffer got interested in filmmaking a few years back when his half-brother was going to college for film school.
"I just thought that was really cool," says Schaffer, "the idea of putting your ideas into a film."He decided to create a seven-minute short dealing with teenage pregnancy, called "Darla."
When Schaffer started making this first movie, his film student half-brother enlightened him about the numerous
film festivals that take submissions from amateur film makers. So after finishing "Darla," Schaffer looked online,
found a few film festivals and then sent in his completed project. This short ended up placing within the top 20 of the
Backyard National Children's Film Festival. ...When asked about his inspiration for "Darla," Schaffer replies, "There are a lot of pregnant teens my home town --
way too many for a small town with a population of 2,000."After his first film placed so well, Schaffer decided to make another short called "Beef Chop," which he sent off to
HBO's 30-by-30 Kids Flicks program. HBO agreed to buy the movie and to interview Schaffer for a program on
young film makers. ..... So far, all of Schaffer's movies are claymation, an animation art he taught himself over
the course of three years.from article: "iMac Director, Age 14"
*****David Lynch
The director who began his career in 1967 with a one-minute animation titled Six Figures has returned
to working frame by frame, and that makes him very happy."Animation is a magical thing to me," he says. "I veered off pretty quickly into live action, but I like animation,
and I like Flash. And there's an almost childlike awe about the way creativity works."Indeed, he's like a reincarnated Surrealist from the 1930s, reverent toward the wonders of the unconscious and
eager to divine its darkest secrets."I think every type of medium gives you different ideas. So when you see the Flash program, it just starts talking to you.
So ideas start coming along. It reminds me of early film -- there's something about it that makes your imagination kick in."from "Wild at Home: David Lynch's Surreal Online TV Station" By Holly Willis [article on res.com]
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I've read a lot of scripts lately in which I think that there is a trend toward very violent, very sexual, very raw, dark genre movie-making. Maybe young filmmakers are saying, 'I'm going to do something in the independent world that's so dark that nobody else would make this.' ...
But I think the really courageous and bold move is to make a movie about human behavior.
Laura Dern [edrive.com interview]
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"It is
my good fortune that I was born and raised in China. I grew up worshipping
heroes of my own color... We should never focus on our identity as a liability.
We should just hone our skills and work hard...
It is a very competitive business regardless of skin color. If you love it for the right reason, and you live your life in accordance with this love, you will be able to do it." Joan Chen [jademagazine.com interview] |
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Robert Rodriguez and "El Mariachi""Robert Rodriguez says his main intention with all his films, including the home movies
he now makes at his Austin area ranch with his kids -- 5-year-old Rocket, 3-year-old Racer
and 2-year-old Rebel -- is to entertain."All of the independent people who say they're independent, they didn't make their movies
by themselves. I did. I was the whole crew," he says, laughing. "I mean if you really looked
at ('El Mariachi'), the only reason it seemed arty was because it was in Spanish."But if you spoke Spanish you realized, this is just a cheesy exploitation movie about a guy
with a guitar case who becomes a gunman. "It was total cheese. I was just having fun with it."[cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ]
Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player
Viki King creativity consultant; author: "How To Write A Movie In 21 Days - The Inner Movie Method"Lela Lee artist ("Angry Little Asian Girl" strip, internet series etc)
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"The movie itself is an emotional artifact. That's what I'm most interested in -- creating states of emotion for the audience. .. what I really love is when [films] get inside my nervous system." filmmaker Kimberly PeirceEqual Dreams: How a New Generation of Women Stormed Hollywood, 1973-2000
[report on book in development] "Based on interviews with prominent women producers, writers, directors, and stars... tells candid stories about women's struggles and triumphs in the film and television industries."Female Persuasion "Back Stage West/Drama-Logue recently spoke withthree seasoned film industry professionals -- AllisonAnders, Stacey Sher, and Paula Wagner--about their respective experiences as talented women working in a predominantly male world."
Girls school rules by Pam Grossman "..Sarah Kernochan..writer and director of the girldungsroman feature "All I Wanna Do" began her career in 1973 as director and co-producer of the Oscar-winning documentary "Marjoe." From there, she penned the musical "Sleeparound Town" and published a novel, "Dry Hustle," before settling into a career as a screenwriter. She co-wrote the screenplays for "9 1/2 Weeks" and "Sommersby," and went solo on the graceful period film "Impromptu"...
Gritty kid tomes have H'w'd thinking young by Jonathan Bing
Nibblebox "...giving college students around the country the tools, funding and mentoring to create innovative new video, radio and animated content for the Web. ... also providing the venue in which students can share ideas, resources and contact information, enabling them to push their creative limits and expand their horizons. Creative Student Network: Nibblebox is building a network of creative students through partnerships with university organizations around the country. Campus television stations, radio stations, film clubs, humor magazines, multi-media departments and other creative student groups are joining..."
Women Make Movies "the largest distributor of women's media in North America, is a national non-profit feminist media arts organization whose multicultural programs provide resources for both users and producers of media by women. WMM was established in 1972 to address the under representation and misrepresentation of women in the media.
software:
Final Cut Pro 4.0 Reviewer from Guilford, CT : I have been editing for 20 years.
FCP on a Dual 2.0 Ghz G5 is the best editing solution for the money I have ever seen. It blows away the $75k+
systems that I have used for less than a tenth of the price. FCP at less than $1,000 and a G5 is all you need
other than a camera. You can make broadcast quality video with this simple setup.
Flash 5.0
Lisa Brenneis. Final Cut Pro For Macintosh
Roger Corman. How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a DimeViki King How To Write A Movie In 21 Days: The Inner Movie Method [publisher:] "Viki King is a writer,
script consultant, and lecturer. .. she has written for prime-time TV shows.. has wide clientele of screenwriters...
lectures at the University of California at Los Angeles .. conducts seminars nationally." [interview with Vicki King]Frederick Levy Hollywood 101 : The Film Industry [the author:] "Why I wrote this book... I was just 17 years old when I first moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the film business. At that time, I didn't know a soul and I had to start at the very bottom and work my way up. Today I am the Vice President of a feature film production company and have worked on such films as TITANIC and REINDEER GAMES. Making it in Hollywood IS possible and I've written this guidebook to help others follow and achieve their show business dreams."
Sidney Lumet Making Movies
John Pierson. Spike, Mike, Slackers & Dykes : A Guided Tour Across a Decade of American Independent Cinema "John Pierson--who is responsible for getting films such as Michael Moore's Roger & Me and Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It produced--provides an account of what goes on behind the scenes in independent filmmaking. "Mr. Pierson covers his territory with urgency and conviction."--New York Times Book Review.
Andrea Richards. Girl Director
"... guide book for developing girl directors, with insights and advice from the greatest female directors in the business. Learn everything you need to know about low-to-no budget moviemaking, including: type of movie to make & what to put in it... cool techniques... finding your equipment... organizing your own film festival & putting together screenings... information about women directors--past and present."Steven Soderbergh, Richard Lester. Getting Away With It [Amazon.com summary:] "..a hilarious, insightful conversation between two visionary directors, Steven Soderbergh and Richard Lester, about the manifold joys and hardships of being a filmmaker."
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