This 19-year-old filmmaker reminds us why the fundamentals of filmmaking still holds true today. This post was written by Elijah Anthony F. My name is Elijah Anthony F., and I’m a 19-year-old writer/director based out of Southwest Washington. I’ve been making videos and shorts since I was 12-years-old. This last October, I won Best Cinematography in the biggest youth film festival in the world for my short film Clairvoyant, which I made as a solo filmmaker over the course of my senior year of high school. In the weeks following the festival, I’ve started building a community on TikTok, where I’ve received a lot of questions about my process and how to get into filmmaking at a young age. So, I’m here! I don’t know everything or have all the best methods. Truthfully, I know very little and the workflows I’ve developed that work for me are not going to apply to everyone. I only know what I’ve done. As I hurl myself into pre-production on a much larger short, I can already see these methods evolving in real time. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Thursday, 12 January, 2023