Filmmaking in Paris

I wanted to make a blog to talk about the films that I had done in the past, during my time in Paris. Through discovering the difficulties of making a film, working with crew, and people around me, I wanted to focus on making things myself towards the end of my studies.

In France, there is a culture whereby a film director must know how to do all the tricks of the trades. For some people this is absurd, maybe for most, but I found that concept very interesting: The Auteur.

So I decided to focus on how to make films with very low budgets, and control the image, producing, casting, sound, editing and directing myself. The reason why I wanted to do this was so that in the future, I would know exactly what everyone on my film crew should be doing. This said, I still don’t know what some people do (What does the second assistant’s second assistant do?)

Its been fun. The people in Paris are awesome (the internationals) and I think, that in the long run, ill miss what I had, but Ive got to move on.