Setting my mind clear

[lightcameraction]

Yet again I tryed to make an account for myself , didn't worked out . So we just gonna all post from this account , idc .


Basically the problem is that while I'm home,listening to music ,writing my script ,everything is just amazingly clear in my head what I want to do and how exactly to accomplish it.I love looking at every single detail and I prepare myself as much as I can, make my own props , etc .


But in the minute that I walk on set I start to worry so freakin much if its gonna work out or not,If Ive done everything . I start forgetting very simple things , sometimes I stop keeping track at my shots just cuz I'm getting confused or whatever .Sometimes I just say ' okey it's done' and when I get home I start to remember that I forgot something very important at the story ,yet I imagined it 250 times before starting and how exactly im gonna make it .. I've been into filmmaking for a very short time now,just couple of months , but I really don't know where is the problem . Do you think it's cuz I don't have experience or it's something else ?

[dlevanchuk]

I would usually get overewelmed in the beginning of the shoot, but what helps me are the stick figure drawing of every shot placed in the correct order of the shoot. Then I can just match the camera do a quick run through with actors and off I go!

[directorik]

Originally Posted by lightcameraction

Do you think it's cuz I don't have experience or it's something else ?

It's lack of experience.

Making a movie is always crazy and you will always forget things
but the more movies you make the more experience you will get
and the better you will get at it. You've been doing this for a couple
of months - why did you expect to be good at so soon? People who
excel at sports do not think about for years, watch games and
practice for a couple of months and then expect to be in the Olympics
or even be good at their local school. They work on their experience
and skills for years.

Why should a filmmaker be any different?

Make 6 films in the next year (better yet make 12) and if you do not
get any better at these problems then it's something else.

[rayw]

Lack of experience.

Like driving for the first time, the first day on a really new-to-you job, your first "uh-huh" with a significant other, etc.

Do it a few dozen times and you'll start to get perturbed with yourself at the problems you know you should have anticipated rather than traumatized by every problem and hic-up you do have.


Do some short shorts.
Start with one or two people.
Make them low impact - no big productions.


Start with kissing and work your way up to fetish fulfillment.

[Alcove Audio]

Originally Posted by lightcameraction

everything is just amazingly clear in my head what I want to do and how exactly to accomplish it.

There is the problem.

Is every last detail written down during preproduction, then double checked and triple checked? Is the shooting script excruciatingly detailed? Is every craft key in on your vision and included in the preproduction? Are there check lists for everything?

You can't keep it all in your head and you can't do it all yourself. Filmmaking, despite the fact that we consider ourselves as artists, is all about management and attention to details.

[ClockworkNinja]

Stop fretting over the things you can't control and focus on the things you can control. That will eliminate 99% of your problems in life anywhere.

[lightcameraction]

Originally Posted by directorik

It's lack of experience.

Making a movie is always crazy and you will always forget things
but the more movies you make the more experience you will get
and the better you will get at it. You've been doing this for a couple
of months - why did you expect to be good at so soon? People who
excel at sports do not think about for years, watch games and
practice for a couple of months and then expect to be in the Olympics
or even be good at their local school. They work on their experience
and skills for years.

Why should a filmmaker be any different?

Make 6 films in the next year (better yet make 12) and if you do not
get any better at these problems then it's something else.

I do not have any short film what so ever it's just little short scenes and I always get better and better with everything ,but this is a thing that just really frustrating me and I though it's just lack of talent or anything ,but ..thanks a lot ! You really removed the sadness in my heart .

For all these little 3-4 minute scenes I don't have script on set,I always think that I'll remember everything and when I get on set the panic arrives , and I must say that the ideas for the shorts are not so bad ..

Thank you again.

[directorik]

Originally Posted by lightcameraction

For all these little 3-4 minute scenes I don't have script on set,I always think that I'll remember everything and when I get on set the panic arrives , and I must say that the ideas for the shorts are not so bad ..

And that's the way you start getting experience. You make a few 3-4
minute scenes without a script, figure out why your productions didn't
work as well as they could and you change your method. Then you try
something else and find out what doesn't work so you change your
method again. You keep doing this, changing your methods until you
learn what works best.

I did exactly that back when there wasn't the internet and very few
books about filmmaking. I had no one to turn to so I learned by trial
and error. I feel I'm the director I am today because of the mistakes
I made. I know EXACTLY why some things don't work rather than
reading about why some things don't work.

So next time write a script for your 3-4 minute scenes and maybe
even do a little shot list - put down what you see in your head on paper
so when you are on set you can remember.

You will build your talent and your experience by making movies. And
3-4 minute scenes are a great way to build both.