zack mctee

I'm so happy with the direction this thread has taken. The conversation is so much bigger than the original post.

well played sir :) and a valid point. I fully agree with working hard, learning everything there is to know and learning how to do it well. There is nothing worse than someone graduating from film school, buying a video capable DSLR, and running around town calling themselves a DP/Cinematographer. I was shooting some B-cam stuff in full daylight last week, and the "DP" was operating A cam, I heard a strange clicking while he was setting up his shot and when he wasn't looking I checked his settings. He was controlling exposure with shutter speed, shooting at 1/2000....I sighed and continued shooting my stuff with perfect exposure at the proper 180 degree shutter. Again, you're points are totally valid and make sense, but I'll add that for a lot of people, making pieces of crap is how they are studying/putting in work/getting experience. There has always been tons of crap out there, but when Richard Linklater was hanging out in Austin shooting experimental films and FULLY LEARNING everything he could about using the camera, editing, composition, etc. He didn't have a vimeo account to load his crap up to and show the world. The crap now has a platform, and there inlies the problem. This is the best thing you've said and like I said in the other message, some people are just poor collaborators. What I didn't say but am taking away from this conversation, is that yes people like Soderbergh do produce results and they are extremely talented in their own right, but they could benefit tremendously by learning to collaborate with other artists

I'm guessing he meant to say 24fps

Interesting. I'd love to hear more info about this setup

I think where the lines get blurred is that there isn't a union or credit for "filmmaker." These people we're talking about are not Directors, they're not Editors, they're not Cinematographers, they're not DoPs, they're FILMMAKERS. These are people that are passionate about the art of filmmaking and to keep them from being involved in different aspects of the craft would be to exclude them from what makes their clocks tick. There are people who are egotistical nightmares and haven't learned the art of collaboration but that doesn't make them any less of a filmmaker, it just means that they're not good at collaborating. At the end of the day these people get films made and have critical aclaim and the small majority of people that have problems with their style will never stand in the way of them getting poop done. Just like having a cinematographer walk off their set won't stop them from picking up the camera and shooting the film themselves. Here's to a "filmmaker" credit.

Really awesome stuff man, I'm brand new to this forum and for me to get on here and it keeps me inspired that one of the first posts I read is from someone so motivated. Killing it.

I really enjoy the look of this show and have been curious as well