>TL;DR I want to know what poetry/philosophy/literature/book to look at for filmmaking inspiration
So a while ago, there was an user who was ranting about how filmmakers he has seen are a bunch of retards who only have highschool knowledge about majority of things. Later, user agree with him, saying how some of their classmates have only watched films, which is the reason why they want to make films. I agreed with some of their points, but it gave me self-doubt about joining the industry. I know it's all a business and artsy-fartsy films hardly cut it, but it still made me feel like I should get the knowledge to "better" my filmmaking knowledge. If you have any recommendations, I'll gladly take them (poetry, literature, philosophy, etc)
OP here, pic related is the guy He said start with the Greeks, but where? I've read the Odyssey and illad (I really liked both) and some other Greek tales I forgot the names to. Also, after Romeo and juilet, is hamlet a must?
Thomas Watson
I forgot the pic, my bad
Dylan Moore
> bunch of retards who only have high-school knowledge about majority of things. Not sure what this means. I mean people can be very worldly without formal education, and it is that worldliness, that knowledge of the souls of men as Plato called it, or "life experience" perhaps even the school of hard knocks which really makes a great writer or filmmaker.
Otherwise you just copy and paste the stylistic formula and ideas of the filmmakers who preceded you, yes it is a language, and you have to know the vocabulary, but you should be trying to express something new and interesting, or better yet improve and push the grammar to new heights.
Carter Walker
I recently got on a professional film set for the first time and all I can say is that it was eye-opening. Being there makes it easy to understand why the industry is heading the direction that it is.
OP, the only advice one can give you is to make the films you want to make Some might find them pretentious, others will find them boring or maybe some will find them stupid and some will think they lack depth But you can't try making films for other people
Zachary Morris
Who here festivals or at least has some kind of after-production plan for their film. I'd like to pick some brains. I'm about to go into post on a feature and figure now is a good time to plot out my P.R. plan, Social Media Strategy, Festival Plan, how much money I need to save/raise to pay for entry fees, and my "dream list" of influencers and media personalities I want to review or mention my film.
Adam Stewart
>but you should be trying to express something new and interesting, or better yet improve and push the grammar to new heights I always try to make my ideas original as possible, excluding the core concept. But is there a way to make a old idea refreshing? Also, he was saying was that people who are fresh out of highschool and going into the film industry never took the initiative to explore other arts or genres. That's what I'm guessing That makes me feel a little bit better, user. Thanks
Connor Kelly
Are we separating filmmaking and screenwriting again?
Benjamin Ramirez
DO NOT VISIT ANY OF THESE LINKS
Read Pudovkin and Aristotle, you can find both on archive.org, do not use celtx or writerduet or any of that other cancer, just go to archive.org, everything you need is there
Logan Baker
>Also, he was saying was that people who are fresh out of highschool and going into the film industry never took the initiative to explore other arts or genres. Oh, THAT. Yes. Totally true. You can really tell , in the idea, in the way they describe their films there is a huge difference between the fresh out of high school film students, and the masters degree, "I just spent four years working in X industry and now I want to tell the story of when my brother got cancer" students.
>But is there a way to make a old idea refreshing? Yeah of course there is. But it's not worth trying, especially if you're starting, you should be making the films that speak to who you are as a person.
You will steal consciously and unconsciously from other filmmakers, and that's fine, that's all part of the journey, the process towards finding your own, I hate to use this word but your own "voice".
