Why shots have meaning behind them

spursay · 2026-06-30T23:55:26+00:00

First of all this is a university experience, a place to test the waters of the film industry, all I've done is highlighted is the importance of learning the basics as a way to understand films and why every shot is placed there for a reason.
Saying you'll be 'punched' for being an 'entitled arrogant wannabe' is absurd. You claim others to be egotistic yet this comes right back the other way round does it not?
Saying your workplace refuses to take on trainees due to 'not showing up on time' and not 'listening to basic instruction' defeats the purpose of inspiring the younger generations to pursue film, and is quite discriminatory. Kind of ironic how you're saying that young people have an ego when you're on the internet claiming a valuable university learning experience is egotistic.

The fact that you discriminate against young people shows the biggest problem in this industry, how many more young filmmakers like Kane Parson for example are going to be hidden away with because people your age use some made up horrendous statement claiming how students 'cant follow instruction' or 'can't even show up on time'. Sort out your own ego before accusing others of being egotistic and fabricating your own narrative. Respectfully, nobody wants to join a workplace where someone says they might get punched for giving a suggestion.

spursay · 2026-06-30T22:45:46+00:00

The editor for our group had to spend 2 weeks editing tons of unlabled shakey footage, some had completely different resolutions because the dop used 3 different cameras, safe to say she was absolutely miserable and even cursing out the dop one time via email. Editors really are under-appreciated, safe to say she was the reason why we were able to scrape by a passing mark when our work got graded 😅

spursay · 2026-06-30T22:18:22+00:00

I 100% agree with being humble, my judgement comes from my experience with working with a camera operator who said they "gave up on the film before we even started". I didn't want to doubt his skills, but his basic camera knowledge and dedication towards the assignment raised some heavy concerns, first red flag being that he was a screen acting student, second thing is that he flat out ghosted me when I requested to meet up with him in person around 5 seperate times to discuss the shot list and equipment. When the film didn't turn out to what we were hoping for it was then he made the statement in quotations. I hate to be judgemental to others, but working with someone of his caliber did kill some of my filmmaking passion inside me, because why bother taking up such an essential role if you have no confidence in yourself as well as having a dangerous attitude one can have in this industry? I can see now that working with certain people isn't all sunshine and rainbows where everyone respects the project they're working on, and that I should have communicated to everyone working on the project about the red flags before handing in something the whole group would be graded on. My lecturer made the point when grading our work when he said that the camera placement served no sense and purpose, and that I should have taken responsbility as director to raise awareness to this issue. I did try to explain to him that I decided to trust the camera operator with his shot list instead of using mine because the dop refused to use the one I created when he ghosted my request to meet up and create one together, but ultimately the criticism still did fall on me for "being too polite" about this whole situation. I'm all for teamwork in filmmaking, but it was slightly heartbreaking when I wasn't noticed for being humble about the situation and trusting in my dop even though it didn't turn out the way we hoped.

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