Posted by Skippy at rockford1.ic.gc.ca on April 19, 2000 at 12:36:02:
In Reply to: Kevin, a moment of your time please... posted by Phlic on April 18, 2000 at 21:54:36:
Buy a Bolex, an old Arri, or a Beaulieu from a pawn shop or EBay. Get some film. Take some books out of the Library (I like "Independent Filmmaking" by Lenny Lipton). Start shooting.
Find somebody with a half-decent Mac with Premiere on it and edit your stuff on there.
Also, Super-8 cameras can be fun. Beaulieu cameras are the best IMHO. Super-8 Sound in LA has good film stocks.
Pick up a copy of American Cinematographer. There are ads for used equipment in the back.
If there are any film co-ops or clubs near you then join em. Some of em have Steenbecks and stuff you can edit on, put on local festivals, offer workshops and have great advice regarding distribution. At least the co-op I belong to does. I'm told it might be an exception to the rule.
If there's a university with a film school near you become friends with a freshman film student and confince him/her to let you be a production assistant.
Or you can drop a bunch of dough on film school in Vancouver for one year, meet other aspiring filmmakers, then you can drop out and hire them to work on your movie which you financed with credit cards you aquired fraudulently.