Jonathan Graham

Well for one thing, investing in expensive equipment to then see if you are any good is definitely not the way to go. I'm in the same boat you are right now, wanting to get into filmmaking, and what I've relied on the most is to just be a sponge for everything related to filmmaking. If you can afford to go to a film school (especially the well known ones), that's great and I would do it if I could afford to, but don't go that route just for the education, do it for the education and the networking opportunities. (Also access to good equipment) It's one thing to research and read about film, but the actual experience of working on one is another thing entirely. Basically just get experience, any way you can. You may actually find you want to be something other than a director or a cinematographer.

Hey! It's my first post here too! I thought the cinematography was pretty good, coming off my first time DPing this past semester. I was kinda confused about the coloring, it seemed so blue and I wasn't sure what the point of that was. The only thing that stuck out to me as something I would have done differently, and this is more editing than cinematography, was the wide shot of the fountain after she says the line about "if you weren't going to propose to me" where he stops walking away. I thought that could have been longer, it just felt like a flash and then it went back to his close up.