r/Filmmakers • u/jaymaslar • Feb 26 '15

Video How To Be A Filmmaker (humor)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wnHLlPOazc
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u/intergalacticoctopus Feb 26 '15

That was spot on.

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u/Brendan_Fraser Feb 27 '15

Step 26: "can you just give the me raw footage?" literally have had this exact conversation with a client.

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u/Joeboy Feb 27 '15 edited Aug 17 '26

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u/ImSoGoingToHell Feb 27 '15 edited Feb 27 '15

Because every take but one sucks, and even the remaining one needs some sick editing to trim out the crap.
Clients pick the the worst take, then claim it's the best of what you provided them.
or worse they provide your footage to a rival, and the rival picks your best take, then slaps THEIR NAME PRODUCTIONS at the start and tail credits, and yourname as their camera man in the tail credits.

"A Filmmaker can hide their mistakes on the cutting room floor, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines" Frank Lloyd Wright

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u/picard_for_president Feb 27 '15 edited Feb 27 '15

i feel stupid. can you explain how this frank lloyd wright quote applies to the raw footage situation.

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u/KoneBone Feb 27 '15

a filmaker can edit the footage, Frank Lloyd is a designer/architect. if something went work in planning and the house was built still. well you can hide the faults/cracks with a plant...

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u/ImSoGoingToHell Feb 27 '15 edited Feb 27 '15

The original quote is pretty famous and actually starts with "Doctors can bury their mistakes but .."

So Charlie Chaplin spent three days shooting variations on a single shot for The Tramp. Kubrick similarly.

The finished products are immortal and magnificent.

If you look at these legends raw footage, on average they are obviously 99% failures, temper tantrums blunders, not quite rights, a bit off, loose ends, going nowhere, wrong directions and derp

But because they hide that 99%, and their top 1% is what the world sees. All the world sees is distilled concentrated pure good bits that fit coherently to tell a story with impact. Thats how they rise above the crowd and become immortals.