The Ten-Minute Film School - by Robert Rodriguez

Finalmente me llegó el libro de Robert Rodriguez: "Rebel Without a Crew". ¿Por qué el título? Bueno, porque Robert Rodriguez cuando filmó El Mariachi no tenía crew, no tenía equipo técnico definido. Agregué definido porque por supuesto que no realizó todo él, por ejemplo, no hay forma de que pueda empujar una silla de ruedas -que utilizó para hacer travelling- y a la vez esté sentado en la misma. El actor que no aparecía en cámara le empujaba la sillita.

Ahora sí, vamos al título de la entrada, a lo que me interesa publicar. Lo primero que hice fue leer el índice, e inmediatamente me dirigé al anteúltimo capítulo: "The Ten-Minute Film School". Esta entrada tiene como objetivo hacer una serie de citas a ese capítulo, que realmente me gustó, mucho. 

1) So you want to be a filmmaker? First step to being a filmmaker is stop saying you want to be a filmmaker. (...) So you don't want to be a filmmaker, you are a filmmaker. Go make yourself a business card. Next.

2) Any monkey can tap himself out financially while making a movie. The idea is to tap yourself out creatively first.

3) And it's actually better if you learn movies on your own, without formal training - otherwise your movies will be too formal. Now, you may hear all the time that you need to learn the rues so you can break them. Don't bother. I've found it more effective to ignore everything and question everything because it can all be rethought and improved, and in the end the only techniques worth knowing are the ones you invent yourself.

4) They teach you how to make big movies, with a big crew so that when you graduate after spending $20,000+ on your diploma, you can go to Hollywood and get a job pulling cables on someone else's big movie.

5) Hold the meter up against your actor's face, and aim the little white dome towards your camera. Now press the meter button and read off the number it gives you. Cool. Now, roll that number into your camera iris on your lens and you have your F-stop. What's an F-stop? Who cares what an F-stop is? Don't worry about the F-stop, I never did. Just do what the meter tells you; the meter is your friend. Just take that magic nmber that the meter whispers in your ear and set your lens to that number. Bingo. You've just become your own director of photography. Congratulations. Put your name on the credits as such. I did.

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El libro sale 10 dólares en Amazon, y haciendo envíos a la Argentina no se tienen problemas de aduana.