FELLOW AUSSIES: This is my current plan … I want to be a director/screenwriter?
Question by Miss Kennedy: FELLOW AUSSIES: This is my current plan … I want to be a director/screenwriter?
This is my current plan (btw, i am a 17 year old year 12 student in Brisbane Australia):
– For the rest of this year, attend film festivals, watch movies, learn about directing/filmmaking more and more, and develop some skills in screenwriting
– Take a gap year next year, because of how exhausting grade 12 is (I am aiming to get dux of the school this year … last year I was 5th in the grade, out of 130 students)
– Beginning of next year, apply for jobs (any jobs!) at local film studios … there I will learn about things like lighting/editing (things vital to being a director :D) through work-experience
– Second half of next year I am going to France for 3 months to teach english and learn french (with a local exchange program) … there I should develop an ‘adult’ lifestyle/attitude, and learn how to write fantastic stories/scripts through my own experiences 😀
– All this gap year, make short films, and apply them to film festivals (still visiting film festivals, obviously)
– After that, do either a Bachelor of Film and TV Studies or a Bachelor of Multimedia Design (leave my options open as a graphic designer/advertiser :D)
– Make connections with aspiring directors/screenwriters/actors etc at uni … as well as connections through the uni … and develop my own movies/portfolio
– Keep making movies/connections, and applying my oh-so-brilliant films to independant film festivals
Hopefully, I will get noticed. Does this sound reasonable? Will I become a recognised (not necessarily famous) director this way? What else should I do???
THANK YOU!!
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P.S. Is there any way to learn how to be a script writer?? Also, could you suggest any great unis to go to?? Preferably in Australia, but I do have an EU Citizenship … so that is another option 🙂
Best answer:
Answer by DGS
Be a Director than Script writer.
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