Ok we got the HOW but where is the WHY?
Nowadays there's tons of tutorials and discussion about the technical aspects of filmmaking and animation BUT next to nothing about the actual real creative side... coming up with ideas... story...... how to create mood+ emotion.... developing characters....editing decisions...etc... To sum it up there's tons of info about the HOW but next to nothing about the WHY...
As far as the HOW goes if you take Video Copilot, Freddie Wong, and Greyscale Gorilla tutorials and learn those techniques... you'd be able to make some great looking visual fx and shiny stuff for the films you want to make BUT then WHY would you want to do those things? If you just have the visual fx and visual gags you are making demo reels...
Now it seems short videos with nothing but one or two visual gags or fx are very popular and are making lots of people lots of money... so if that's as far as you want to go fine... but I'm not talkin bout the Michael Bay school of filmmaking...
If you want to make a long form or even short film narrative film that doesn't totally rely on visual fx and gags to somehow make it relevant to the viewer... where can you go for information+ discussion?
I myself don't know?! BUT I get a lot of questions from yall about such things... mostly about ideas... and how to take those ideas and make them into a film... NOW I'd like to answer such questions and I do when I can BUT when I do only that person gets my answer and I think the answer might help more than one person... so if you think its something that would be interesting or helpful let me know!
So I want to have a page or a site where people can submit filmmaking questions to me and I can answer them and the answers can be seen by anyone and they can ask follow up questions... I'm not sure what form this should be in or what technology to use... so I'd appreciate any suggestions you have...
Would it be a blog type site where people can submit text questions and I answer in text? Would it be a live streaming type thing where I answer questions live? What do you think would be the best way for me to start putting some WHY out there in this sea of HOW?
I'd like to start an ongoing collaborative conversation about the WHY in film... because that's always been important to me and the films I make.Brought to you by professional weirdo M dot Strange.