I graduated from Columbia University School of the Arts in February with an MFA in Filmmaking. Admittedly, you don't need film school to make movies. There were reasons I chose to attend film school and spend five years and a lot of money there. My original plan was to work on movies, and thus learn about the filmmaking process, then spend my money on making a movie instead of school. As part of my plan, I worked on about two dozen shorts as a location sound recordist or boom operator. These were all low budget shoots, generally financed out-of-pocket by the film's director. Some were quite good and quite interesting, and included early shorts by filmmakers like Michael Kang, who just finished his first feature film, The Motel - in festivals now and will soon be released.
This is my first post for DV Guru; I am one of several people writing for this site. We all have different backgrounds and our posts will have different emphases.
