You won’t want to miss our weekly 48-hour film challenge tips, leading up to the CHALLENGE WEEKEND.
Top Tip 2: Learn through practise
In successful filmmaking, it’s key that you understand and develop the combination of skills and creativity involved. Although both are equally important due to the fact they are often interchangeable throughout different genres, fiction and nonfiction. Progressing from learning the basics to actually shooting a feature might seem daunting, but essentially this CHALLENGE WEEKEND you’re just taking what you already know and applying it.
Director, producer, screenwriter and actor Darious Britt shares great tips on his YouTube channel. The video below will help you this CHALLENGE WEEKEND as he shows that you can learn to be a great filmmaker in just 30 days!
The key is actually going out there and doing it, try the things you’ve seen. Educate yourself by experimenting (especially if the experiment scares you a little bit, that’s the best type of risk!) and seeing how you improve. It’ll help you remember information you’ve seen and then store it in your creative mind, and give you some real-world experience.
Below, we have linked a skills-based book focused on professional practice, written by a cinematographer, for cinematographers that offers a practical, stage-by-stage guide to the creative and technical foundations of cinematography. It breaks down all you need to know (and more!) to be great this CHALLENGE WEEKEND.
You can read even more great film-making tips in the award-winning Introduction to Cinematography, Learning Through Practice, 1st Edition By Tania Hoser.
#DVMISSION20 is supported by Focal Press|Taylor & Francis, Portsmouth City Council, University of Portsmouth, Creative Network South and Portsmouth Film Society.
