Hey everyone! I'm very glad I stumbled across this forum, it appears to have a ton of invaluable information for someone who's just getting started.
My names Andrew and since I can't yet call myself a filmmaker I'll settle for saying I'm extremely interested.
I'll give you a little bit of my professional background.
When I was 17 years old I decided I wanted to graduate high school a year early to enlist in the US Navy. I spent a few years as an Electronics Technician fixing radars and then got out and came back home to Milwaukee. I had trouble finding work in my field (and I didn't really enjoy it) so I started selling cars....after achieving mild success in the car business I finally figured out it wasn't for me. At 21 years old I wanted the opportunity to have a social life and pursue the things that I was interested in, unfortunately working 60 hours a week at a car dealership made that impossible so I chose to move on. Since then I've been jumping from job to job just trying to find my place in society.
Several months ago I started getting into filmmaking and since then it's been one of the only things I can think about. I've been doing a lot of reading, watching a lot of movies, and reading even more. I've read through a good 50 scripts or so to make sure I had a good feel for what actually makes a good screenplay and now I'm ready to start writing my own.
Learning about the movie making process has been a lot of fun and I'm very excited to get behind a camera so that I can actually see my vision come to life.
Thanks for reading, I'm looking forward to talking to all of you and finding out what you think makes a great film as well.
My Regards,
Andrew Decker
My names Andrew and since I can't yet call myself a filmmaker I'll settle for saying I'm extremely interested.
I'll give you a little bit of my professional background.
When I was 17 years old I decided I wanted to graduate high school a year early to enlist in the US Navy. I spent a few years as an Electronics Technician fixing radars and then got out and came back home to Milwaukee. I had trouble finding work in my field (and I didn't really enjoy it) so I started selling cars....after achieving mild success in the car business I finally figured out it wasn't for me. At 21 years old I wanted the opportunity to have a social life and pursue the things that I was interested in, unfortunately working 60 hours a week at a car dealership made that impossible so I chose to move on. Since then I've been jumping from job to job just trying to find my place in society.
Several months ago I started getting into filmmaking and since then it's been one of the only things I can think about. I've been doing a lot of reading, watching a lot of movies, and reading even more. I've read through a good 50 scripts or so to make sure I had a good feel for what actually makes a good screenplay and now I'm ready to start writing my own.
Learning about the movie making process has been a lot of fun and I'm very excited to get behind a camera so that I can actually see my vision come to life.
Thanks for reading, I'm looking forward to talking to all of you and finding out what you think makes a great film as well.
My Regards,
Andrew Decker
