How do I learn filmmaking?

I would love to make films. All the top directors advise people to just go out and make them, which of course I will do. But how do you seriously learn lighting and such? Especially if you have no budget

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Other people do that for you, traditionally

I dunno nigga. Read a book?

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I realise the director traditionally works with the actors and aims the camera in their desired direction, and the cinematographer sets up the lightning, but I would still like knowledge of the whole craft

get a job on a film crew. sign up to be an extra or apply to be a production assistant. Get on a real set and see how it operates.

Media schools teach all of that stuff

>But how do you seriously learn lighting and such?

Unironically learn about photography.

Sure, if you can afford to hire a professional crew. OP, my advice would be to look at your local ads and see if there are any student films looking for crew volunteers.

Just hire people who know their shit don’t waste your time on learning every aspect of film making just direct and edit otherwise you’ll waste lots of money that could have been spent making an actual end product

Youtube videos.
Learn how to do photography. Cinematography is literally photography.
The hardest thing to learn is sound.

So this is probably a point of contention even in professional circles but where exactly does the job of the director end and the job of the cinematographer begin.
Also what is the relationship between CGI and cinematography? Who is responsible for the look of heavy on CGI scenes?

if you want to go full professional go get a job in film industry so you can learn things.

Very cool

unironically the best movie ever made. this and chinatown

>Go to college to study film
>Get involved in student filmmaking
>Learn the ropes

Student films is the best way to get hands on with every aspect of a film. You could also just move to hollywood and start at the bottom, as a PA, and work on bigger productions, and start hanging out with people who do the kinds of things you want to learn.

No, they don't. They advertise that they do, but talk to anyone in the industry, people from those "schools' are completely useless. You want to never get hired? Talk about your Full Sail "degree".

"Media schools" are just babysitting operations doing anything they can to get accredited, so they can feed at the guaranteed federal college loan trough.

Still photography lighting is completely different than set lighting.

Set lighting is a like a bastard child of still photography and stage lighting (theater).

None of the people that ever achieved something in filmaking went to filmschool. If you really love films and want to make one you cannot possibly make a bad one.

Go to movie school

go to movies

Based

>The hardest thing to learn is sound.
like recording it properly? or getting sound effects right?

I only want to go into screenwriting business.
I have some neat ideas

97% of successful directors were born into rich, industry connected families. If you want to make it in the industry as a random you need to be extremely ambitious and cunning. If you're asking questions like these on a Singaporean bulletin board you probably don't have what it takes to succeed.

This is just not true, plenty of successful directors went to film school and plenty of successful directors didn't

That being said, you don't NEED to go to film school in order to be a successful director, but it helps to have the knowledge and connections a film school can bring you

meh there's always luck

Have you written any of them?

you can start with photography. and some illustration knowledge i guess. kubrick was a photographer. cameron did mattepainting i dunno man

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gotta think outside the box if you don't have a budget.

Like I can't afford lights, locations or actors but I happen to build gundam model kits on the side, which are humanoid, have various finishes, and are only a foot tall at their largest, so I could practice basic lighting in my room using cheap led's and lamps.

Actually started a small model kit review show with 3000 subs. Point is, even though it isn't 'film making' I've learned a lot about lighting and keeping the color consistent and getting the right exposure when I have a white kit over a black background, and when a kit is so glossy I need to break out a polarizer. Then when I started using photoshop to edit images I learned even more. Then editing the videos in premiere I learned how to keep something as nerdy and boring as a robot toy fast paced, not to mention how to get solid audio for commentary.

About a year later I shot a no budget music video for a friend, and I was amazed by how many of the skills I learned on a micro-scale with my model kit videos that I could transition into full-scale with the video.

I'm rambling, sorry, just find the "how do I get good at X" stuff interesting.

Point is, think outside the box, maybe take inventory of what you have, and just do it. You might be surprised how much you can learn, even if it isn't specifically what you originally intended.

This is actually sound advice. Learn from a book, experiment and practice, find what you want to do and figure out what style you're going for.

one is in the making. The others are merely sketches. I'm actually planning on posting my first one here because people here are so overcritical and anonymous of course. Too bad it might get stolen, welp then it at least means it was good.
its merely a passionproject/hobby though

Don't go to film school,go to films.