Brady Nemeth

My question is, what is the next step for me to take? Essentially, I just finished the "first step" of fooling around with home digital camcorders, and essentially know all the basics to a generic movie. Where do I really go from here? I'm going to be a senior in high school, so i'm limited in a sense. I'm also looking for the cheaper ways to do things because I'm saving to go to France next summer. For a next step (not sure if it is too far/not enough) I was thinking about buying an inexpensive actual film camera. I'm not sure if this is the next step or not because I have taken a photography class in school, and I wasn't sure if developing film for still cameras is the same process as film for a video camera (may be a stupid question :unsure: ). I've developed several roles of my own film from a still camera, but I wasn't sure how that translated over to "film film". When I got to thinking about it, i'm pretty sure, all I really need is the beginning part of it, developing the roll itself, because I won't need to be making out prints of each shot (will I?). Does "Developer (we used Kodak d-76), Stop Bath, Fixer, Water" actually make sense to some of you "movie buffs"? I'm really just more interested in building steps towards more technical stuff, rather than planning the shots (and other things like that) at this point. Lastly, are there any good websites/books to read about how movies are made? Once again, i'm looking for more of how they are made in the sense of how things are done, not really the "artistic" aspect of it. For instance, I still don't get how it goes from film, to digital editing, to back to film? Any recommendations would be great.

I've known what I have wanted to do for quite some time now (cinemetography), but almost done with my junior year in high school, i'm finally faced with the decision of where to go from here. I think a quick summary of what i've done so far might help out. I first realized that I loved film/TV when I worked on my middle school TV show in 6th grade in MD. I moved to western MA, where there isn't much of anything. Our school is on the verge of being taken down and built again, so our classes are limited, but i've taken pretty much anything involving film (still photography, and video). Essentially, with the position i'm in, there isn't a whole lot that I can do without dishing out tons of money. Back to all of my questions about schools to go to after high school. I've had tons of questions to ask for a while now, and it looks like I finally found a great place to ask them. Feel free to answer as many or as little as you want. 1. Is a 4 year University even worth it? I've heard from some people in "the business" that most people don't care whether you've gone to school or not, they just care about the knowledge that you carry. 2. How do I get into a tough school like NYU or USC? One thing that has constantly boggled my mind is that how do people aspiring to work with cinematography get into great schools like these. I don't think that people in film are dumb, but certainly they can't all be extremely smart to get into schools like these. 3. How much "previous knowledge" should I have (or did you have) when going to school for cinematography? I have very little knowledge itself of cameras used in the industry, or other things of that nature because there aren't many places in my area to find these things out. One thing that I do think will help me is my tech theater experience working with lighting, sound, prop building, etc. 4. How interchangeable are working with TV/Film/Live Theater? If I dive a bit deeper into cinematography and realize that it may not be right for me, how easy it to change over to TV Broadcasting, or something else like that? 5. Is Hofstra University a good choice? I've been looking at Hofstra for a while now, but i'm realizing while browsing around the forum that I don't see them mentioned much. I only have around a 3.0 in high school, so my options are somewhat limited. Well, i don't want to write more questions as this point, so the amount of writing turns people off from reading this thread, but i'm sure i'll come up with more as some of my questions get answered. Thanks!