[Frameworks] New filmmaker

[Fred Camper]

Learning to edit before starting to shoot on your own may not be for 
everyone, but I think it's an excellent suggestion. You may even want to 
pursue this for a while before shooting, but if you then want to shoot 
on your own, your shooting will be informed by what you have learned to 
do with editing, and will likely be more disciplined as a result.

It's all too easy to shoot a bunch of footage that you then have no idea 
what to do with. This is a frequent beginner's problem.

If you do get a camera right away, one good discipline is trying to make 
very short films that are edited in camera, or as close to edited in 
camera as you can make them.

Fred Camper
Chicago

On 5/5/2014 7:14 PM, LJ Frezza wrote:
> If you have a computer, I'm from the school that says you don't even 
> need a camera. You can try re-editing footage from a number of sources 
> like YouTube, DVDs, etc.
> It's a lot cheaper, especially if you can finagle yourself some free 
> editing software.
> -LJ
>