Every year many students will enter college to learn filmmaking. As filmmaking is a big project and practical course, students need to shoot short films on themselves to learn more things that they cannot get in classes. It is very simple to watch films. You can watch a comedy film with your family at weekends or plan an interesting outdoor movie night with your friends. However, it is not so easy to craft a film. You have to put your effort, time, money and passion during the complex filmmaking process.
If you are the freshman in the college, you can get some good instructions from your professor. In fact, many professors will ask students to shoot short films on specific topics or themes and give them some requirements. If your professor gives you some requirements, you need to study these requirements carefully before you start the filmmaking project. Pay attention to the limit and choose the right movie genre. And then you can think about the plot for the movie.
Choose a topic for your short film. You’d better choose a familiar topic or the film theme, for you have pre-existing knowledge to make the shooting work go on smoothly. Addition to that, you have the interest in the film topic, you will try your best to make a good short movie. And you can also enjoy the filmmaking process.
Next, you should write a movie script. If you are not good at writing, you can friends to compose the movie script. Try to get friends and classmates involved in the process, and all of you can work together for the same goal.
As you are the college student, you may not have a big budget on the short movie. So you should set a budget ahead of time. List all your friends, particularly if they are studying film. Your friends can serve as actors and work staff. Make sure that everyone knows his or her role and responsibilities. The film project is the team work, so you need to direct different people to work together for the film.
If you want your film has good visual effect, you should use professional video equipment. If you cannot afford new video equipment, you can buy used video equipment or just rent Sony PDW F1600 from online store. That will not cost you much money, and you can use the saving for good costumes and background set.