Training Tomorrow's Filmmakers Today
The future of commercial filmmaking is digital technology. Affordable hardware, extending from cameras to nonlinear editing systems, has turned both the studio and independent filmmaking communities on their collective head with cost-saving opportunities and creative potential. As with the desktop publishing revolution in the mid-80s, the manner in which an entire industry actualizes and delivers its product has been redefined by the empowerment of the individual through accessible digital technology.
However with filmmaking, regardless of the means used to render image to frame, the process of making narrative and documentary movies remains as constant as it has from the advent of cinematic storytelling over 100 years ago. Making movies successfully necessitates not only talent and creativity, but technical and people management prowess, budgeting and scheduling know-how, a full understanding of the myriad aspects of departmental responsibilities, and organizational adaptability.
Professional filmmaking and all the considerations inherent to its process – development, pre-production, production, post-production, marketing and exhibition – remain a fixed succession of considerations, expectations, demands, implementation and payoff.
How the IFB Works
The Indie Filmmaker's Bootcamp addresses the overall commercial filmmaking process, from development through rough cut, by coupling Hollywood industry professionals and today's leading technology with those seeking careers in the highly competitive and sought-after fields of digital, film and broadcast media.
Professional filmmakers from both the studio and independent film worlds are invited to participate in the IFB program. Fulfilling key leadership positions in camera, sound, grip & electric and other departments, they are charged with managing their respective teams, comprised solely of students, and training them in the use of equipment and the interrelational roles incumbent to the collaborative efforts mandated in every phase of motion picture production. These instructors serve as mentors throughout the duration of each IFB, providing hands-on, task-solving insight in a real-world, working environment.
Summer 2007
earn how to creatively tackle the
myriad obstacles faced by those seeking to produce quality, narrative cinematic entertainment independently on a
limited budget. How? By working with professional filmmakers on the production of a short movie that we make at
the Indie Filmmaker's Bootcamp.
