Let me get this straight: You comment something that is unrelated to the fact that I have two DANGEROUSLY DASHING girlfriends? Considering that I am the unprettiest UA-camr ever, having two hot girlfriends is really incredible. Yet you did not mention that at all. I am quite disappointed, dear gus
@Zimmit's FunHouse Adventure That was my first Gus Johnson video! I had no idea he did bits at the time. I was just like "wow, this guy is committed to finding the truth!". Also I always get jalapenos on my subs and they really do have way too many ends. Like seriously, there's only one yucky end per pepper possible (the little end is totally fine and not annoying in any way), how is every third jalapeno slice an end slice?
No no. The true gems of this genre DO get released due to the overwhelming hubris of their directors. And because there's fuck-all going on in the school's film department because they're not at an arts school - they went to the state agriculture school - it will not only be taken seriously but also probably put in the running for a student film award. It won't win, life isn't that cruel (yet), but the awards people presumably have to sit and watch this garbage and I think about that sometimes. Anyway "Dystopian Teen Power Reflections" will get like runner up or some shit and the absolute doorstop who "directed" it will unironically put that on his resume when he's applying for assistant manager at GameStop.
Bonus points if most of the savings went towards hiring the local E-list actor playing the main character who was the waiter in the background of the 39th season of some soap opera.
Paul Beleuta you need a portfolio to land a job making films lol, do you know what a portfolio is? It includes any films you’ve made or contributed to sorry but I don’t think your gonna get a job with no proof of what you can do
@Paul Beleuta I'm at College (England so i'm seventeen) for Film Studies and Media and after six months we still haven't touched a camera or got remotely close to writing a screenplay...
@@MrSimpleton Film studies is about studying film creation, right? The historical and cultural impacts of film. You're doing an A-Level correct? If you wanted to be making films, you should have done a vocational in Creative Media Productions. Though, I could be wrong, but 2 years ago when I was doing my A-Levels I studied Creative Media Productions. We we're creating adverts, videos, graphic design, photography and a 5 minuet documentary by year 1. I think you're on the wrong course mate.
Britzlar although this is a satirical video, no film students are this naive and stupid. And more importantly, the guy said he’s at the end of film school. That’s almost four years of experience and intensive education
@@carrotcake6572 What I meant is that EVERYBODY going to film school starts this way, not knowing shit about how to plan a shoot. I know this is satirical. Its an exageration. But it's an exageration of something that does happen more often than you appear to think.
9am: "Alright, we should have this scene wrapped up by lunchtime." 8pm: "If everyone could hang around for another couple of hours to finish up I'd really appreciate it."
Yeah this is the worst. Working on a film where the director/producer gives no thought to people's time. Real quick way to piss off talent and your crew.
@@tasharice2781 ISO is used to make the video look brighter, but on most cameras if you bump it past 800 the image starts looking super grainy and over exposed, so putting it at 8000 would blotch the image and hurt the viewers eyes...
“Hey actors? Good luck getting the footage, which I know is the only reason that you are doing this project, because I will not respond to your multiple messages asking for it and you will never hear from me again” -every student film director
R B that’s awful and yeah I feel you...the only footage I have is from projects where I was friends with the people who filmed it or I was part of filming it myself. I filmed a short film for free last year and it was the worst filming experience of my life. Over 90 degree weather, patting the sweat off of my body in between takes, and I got a weird sunburn on my knees that I still have now...but no footage. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Can the main character be a hitman who feels bad? Or a student who is late on a homework assignment? Or someone who is just miserable with no progression before the end of the film?
I was in a student zombie film, and they actually seemed to have most of their shit together. It was all going well until the director tripped over the cords to his camera and broke it. Guy was super distraught, and we all had to go home until further notice. The movie was never made lol
@@Guywithaclub to be fair my friend had me come in for a day as an extra so I wasn't super involved or invested, but you're right it was a bit of a tragedy. Just this many years later it was so abrupt that it's still kinda funny to me. But I get and appreciate your sentiment, albeit a year later
Literally the first thing the director said to me was: "just sit down and pretend to watch something on TV. Then improvise whatever comes naturally....aaaand action
This exact situation happened to me except what was on the tv was extremely disturbing because it was a horror short film but since the screen was just blank during filming my character is just staring quite interestedly at some pretty disturbing crap lol
@@ph6251 Same thing happened to me in a horror film I worked on. Luckily the director was fairly competent and had a complete vision for the film, and it was easier to emote.
I was in a student film once and we had to go to a lake for the shoot. While we were there, the camera battery died, the director’s phone died, and my phone was on 11%, so we filmed 90% of the shots on my iPhone 6
I was in a student film once that tried to compete in the Coca-Cola commercial competitions. The short film was shot in a movie theater and the “director” forgot to scout out the area for adequate outlets. He threw such a fit when he realized there was no where to plug in his equipment lol.
Yeah I'll go! Totally man, I'm down! Dude I'm so excited! I can't wait to film! This is so cool! Tomorrow is gonna be so cool when we film! The day of shooting, 5 minutes before filming: Yeah when I blink, I can't see, so I gotta go to the doctors. Can't make it man sorry.
Seriously, when I was directing a short, there were 3 instances where actors were totally excited the previous day and then the next day, they text 5 minutes before we were supposed to shoot that they "can't make it today." Like, you made a commitment to be there - if you really can't, well, at least warn everyone before they fucking show up to film. And this has happened to me and my friends so many times when trying to film, where actors just don't show up without any warning.
@@gdaugvst my hot tip for making student actors more reliable is just get them to sign something, anything, before the day of shoot. as soon as theyve signed a form (can literally just be a random word doc you whipped up) they suddenly take the commitment a hell of a lot more seriously.
@@willcrossley bro i WISH i had this advice a few years ago, i had so many projects turn out garbage because actors just dropped out literally the day before filming, including TWO separate occasions where they postponed filing for a MONTH and caused me to lose pm all my production time lmfao. Aaaaahhh MEMORIES. I shouldve made em sign something lol
Director: Why can't you use this shot. Editor: It's very out of focus. Director: Can't you fix it? A conversation I have had with many student directors.
@@jonahlindhe756 The shot/reverse-shot technique is when dialogue in a film is taking place (typically between two characters) the camera angle will switch back and forth over the two character’s shoulders for each line of dialogue.
*Film Student Friend:* •Asked me to be an extra in his film (just to stand in the background) •The night prior, sent me the full script? •Also asked me that night if I could do the makeup for the male lead (who was supposed to be Thanos) •When I showed up the next day for filming, asked me if I could be the lead female because their lead dropped out •The SFX makeup stuff they brought for me to use was acrylic paint :) EDIT - The Lord Provides. Someone else who worked on the film uploaded it to YT. It’s Thanos Date by 3rd Gear Productions.
First time I shot a film. We drove two hours to the woods for a full day shoot and after 30min the camera guy told me his memory card was full and had no way of dumping it.
"I could probably just get away with using the camera's internal microphone" just hits different while it's being said into a lav on your Big Lebowski sweater.
this reminds me of filmmakers who will ACTUALLY do this, because they want their behind-the scenes documentary to be higher quality than the film itself.
@@squidwardstesticles5914 a higher ISO level essentially let more light in to the lens, but at a quality loss that will make it more grainy, and a normal max ISO on cameras is like 1600, which you wouldn't even want to go that high if you don't have to because you're sacrificing quality.
@@squidwardstesticles5914 No exaggeration. 100. It's industry practice to spend thousands of dollars on film lights to avoid going over 100 and to stay well below 800
@@squidwardstesticles5914 It is a setting that dictates the cameras sensitivity to light. The higher the number, the more light that the camera will take in. So its useful for situations where there isn't very much light. The trade off is that the picture will look grainy and terrible. Typically keeping it around 100 - 800 ISO is preferred but you will need lighting equipment to be able to see any inside shot.
The “we’ll fix it in post” had me thinking about the worst film project I had been a part of. I was in a group project in college, and the group consisted of one bossy student and her friend who just listens to whatever she says and another girl who never talks and is a really passive person. So it wasn’t meshing well, and the bossy girl always got the laziest shots and of course she had to be the director and the camera person. Any idea that isn’t hers is a bad idea, and every single time a shot ends up looking bad she said we’ll fix it in post. After that terrible shooting, we got to editing, which I was thinking is our savior for the project cus maybe we could work with what we got and make something decent. But of course the bossy girl has to be the main editor, and she sucked at it. She has no idea what she was doing and yet she wanted to edit the full thing, I was the only one give her suggestions and ideas for editing while the others were just watching, and yet she wouldn’t listen. We decided that we’d split the editing and have each person edit certain parts. She still wanted to do the full thing so when she started doing it she got all confused, regretted it, and asked for help afterwards. OH and the worst part of all, on the day we had to present the project, she came in and brought her computer, and I was curious to see the end result because she didn’t even show us, turns out she still hasn’t finished editing and exporting it! Hours before we had to show the film. I was in disbelief, she wanted to edit it all by herself so bad but didn’t even end up finishing it in time. This all happened in art school too lmao.
“Hey can you walk through the background in this two minute video that we’re literally shooting in the library on an iPhone” * actor immediately goes home and makes an IMDb page*
"Okay, Im gonna need one theater student to take this too seriously and consider this his big break" I feel so attacked. Number of independent & "student" films and stage plays where I have literally thought that (lost count years ago)
"About teenagers, they have special powers and live in a dystopian society." This concept sounds so new, so *original* it could be nothing other than a great success.
This is pretty accurate lol. Could've added a part where the "director" forgets to take off the lens cap and can't figure out for 10 mins why all the shots are completely black
I just did a student film and the lead role was just like that except he wasnt a theater student. Just kept saying "yea this is my first audition and I got it." We get it dude you're cool, we all got jobs too, I got my first 5 you know how many people I told, zero. Theres always one like that.
I accidentally did some of these things in high school when I decided to shoot a film... except I had food for everyone. Learned so much on that film and I’m happy to say I’ve never had a shoot organized so poorly since!
You should do a follow-up of ‘every student film editor’, man there’s so much to work with when it comes to amateur film parody. “Let’s put a load of our hilarious outtakes in the credits, people will find our in-jokes without context absolutely hilarious”
My favorite thing to do when I got bored in the editing room was to find a funny noise or sound from an actor and paste it as it’s own audio track to get a chuckle
Literally nobody like them except for those involved and VERY close friends... Basically, it's pointless, and it will bring you nightmares a few days later, if not hours
Dont feel bad at all. It's a scam anyways. Any information you need from college is available for free on the internet. Plus, you cant "Teach" creativity. You either have it or you dont. A lot of these poor kids are meant to have happ, normal lives, yet completely fuck themselves thanks to a society that's convinced them they have to be these amazingly successful superstars. If you're normal, just be normal. A normal healthy life is litterally - and obviously - what people are supposed to have.
@@TheDirvish I agree completely! I started by making UA-cam videos for fun and now I do it for local businesses full time! I learned the technical stuff along the way as I needed to or wanted to improve in a certain area!
@@TheDirvish the entire point of universities and colleges is that you get connections, u make acquaintances and associate with ppl working in that field genius, before another one of yall mfs says tHe eDuCaTIoN sySTum iS a ScAm yeah well it is and it isn't, most college students either learn shit from seniors who are there on campus or from each other, or now, from youtube and the internet but if u are in a good college, you get access to placements in good companies etc. well idek if it was worth my time explaining this to you but i hope u wont stay this ignorant going forward.
I once volunteered for an extra role in a student film and was confused when we were told we can talk while they were filming the scene - turns out that they planned for 100% of the audio to be dubbed/ADR'd in post. It did not work out
People need to learn that it's the opposite, the background actors have to pretend to be talking, but not actually talk, while the background talking is added in post
This isn't that weird, if you're shooting somewhere / shooting angles where there'll be noise most major sets will just plan for ADR, there's an issue if you don't have the skillset to do that though.
This really made me feel like I wasn’t alone in the world. On one of my student films, an actress bailed at the last minute because I didn’t know I had to send out a call sheet and I had to get my mom to play the part 🤦♂️ my microphone also got BLASTED by wind when shooting outdoors and I had to use absolutely horrendous ADR to fix it. It was a technical train wreck, but it was SO worth it
"I have asked all of the actors to show up at the same time, even though we are not going to be filming for another 4 hours or so" Word for word. Has happened to me multiple times.
@@youngfunny1824 Lot different story when your program takes it self so seriously. But hey, i'll hopefully have a job after school so not complaints for me :)
"Wrong! You're supposed to say [Insert overly dramatic line that sounds nothing like something a real person would say]" "This is the fifth take, can't you just get us a copy of the script?" "I don't have any copies" "What!? You can't film without a script!" "Guys it's fine! The script is all up in here" *Points to his head while smiling unironically*
The worst student feature I was ever a part of, the director just had these kids and old people walking around on slippery rocks in a rainstorm by the edge of a waterfall... and their lead actor had celiac disease and they kept forgetting to buy him food he could eat... and he got stung by a yellowjacket... To be fair, on my worst student film, I forgot all of the batteries and we almost set a guy's arm on fire
I was on a set where the director got two premium 14 inch pizzas for a crew of like 20. The lead actor, who was late to a job interview to do this 'film', was vegan and didn't even get to eat.
Then after getting scared of something you found by accident, you give the tapes to a friend, quit film school, and your friend, after letting the tapes sit for three years in a closet, posts them on youtube and a few years later the thing you found by accident becomes one of the most well known and cliched creepypastas on the internet.
"Craft table" is huge jar of peanut butter, one knife, loaf of wonder bread, two fully green bananas and a bag of smashed oreos (no cream just the cookie part)
The only part he’s missing is “We need the makeup guy to be here the whole time in case someone needs a touch up” but everyone isn’t wearing anything beyond foundation and setting powder
aah takes me back to the good old days freshman year where people would just slam the camera on a tripod and do literally nothing else. Would it KILL you to set the goddamn white balance?!
@@dancergirl3337 "we'll fix that in post" while shooting in a fucked up video profile that makes color correction impossible without making everyone look like porcelain dolls lol!
As someone with ADHD who went into college for political science and writing but ended up at a nursing college (fucking ADHD made me miss half of the S.A.Ts...) you will. And probably drop out, too.
This is far too accurate. The only thing missing is the "director" asking the "cast and crew" if they've seen any Quentin Tarantino and/ or Martin Scorsese movies and then proceeds to judge everyone who says they haven't.
"I brought no snacks and no refreshments for you guys, but that's ok because -the owner of the house said we're not supposed to use this bathroom- *OK* "
Luckily I've only been on _one_ student film set, and although it wasn't nearly as bad as portrayed here, there _was_ room for improvement. I've worked as an SFX techie for around 16 years by now, and I have a few tips for you new upcoming filmmakers, that I hope you find useful. Please remember this is all from an SFX techie's point of view, although some of it is relevant for everyone. 1. If you're filming for an entire day, make sure you've arranged for toilet facilities, anyone worth his or her salt in the industry will have made sure to do their business _before_ showing up on set, but make sure your crew has access to a bathroom, we are only humans and anyone can get hit with a case of food poisoning. 2. If you need custom-built props, make sure you order them well in advance. I can't even count the number of times I've been asked what it would cost to build something, and giving a price provided I get the time to build whatever prop is needed, only to learn that the customer would like to shop around a bit first and get some other offers, which is totally their right, but they need to understand that the price changes when they come back close to deadline because they couldn't find anyone else that could either do the job, or do it cheaper. In effect, they've wasted time and money trying to get a better deal, because now I have to get the job done in a lot less time, and have to reorganize everything else I might've planned. Also, please do realize that it takes time to order and have materials delivered, no SFX shop has all the materials they could possibly have a need for on hand at any given time. I know changes to the script may occur, frankly, it does more often than not, but regarding props, order well ahead of schedule, it saves you money in the long run. 3. If you're shooting for a whole day, make sure your crew is fed! Now, where I live, for some odd reason the concept of only feeding your crew some light vegan bullshit has snuck in. Apparently, they think they can feed us rabbit food. That might work for self-righteous vegans in the administration, that never have to do any hard work at all, but for the guys and girls on the floor, we need something more, we need a good solid lunch to keep going. And make sure there's plenty of coffee and snacks to keep the blood sugar levels up, nothing will bring you down faster, and make you work slower and more inefficient, than not being taken care of. I'd say you should probably have at least one person per 20 crew members, whose only job is to make sure that everyone is happy. For the past couple of months, I've been on a production as an occasional back-up to the guy we have on set permanently, he lost 4 kgs on the first week, and 3 kgs the following, simply because they worked long days and were fed nothing but a small amount of rabbit food. The days my company had to be there full crew to do some set construction, we went and got burgers, pizzas, and what have you, in the lunch break. The carpenters did the same thing. I don't think anyone else besides us, ate just somewhat decently in that period. Eventually, the regular people there got fed up with the lack of suitable food served and complained to the top brass, and that made a difference - we're still being served rabbit food, but at least they've included actual meat now. Not that they've included enough - the props master is the skinniest chick I've seen in a long time, and a few days ago at lunch, she was looking sadly at her empty bowl of spaghetti bolognese saying "I could've eaten six of these", to which my colleague, being around a 100 kgs worth of US Marine SOF said, "I could easily have eaten 10 and would still have room for more"... The moral of the story is, _feed your crew!_ 4. Hire a good AD! Nothing reeks more of incompetence than a shoot where nobody keeps things on track, _on time,_ and it's going to cost you a lot more in the long run if you're wasting time and people are standing still. Let me give you an example, twice I've been called out to our current production to make weather effects, the first time I sat on my ass for half a day, the second time I sat on my ass for a full day, only to be called up in the last half hour to make a bit of wind. Now, I don't know what the company charges the customer, but a recent glance at a bill for another production tells me that I've probably cost the production company somewhere around $1500, doing fuck all for 12 hours. It isn't cheap to have an SFX guy on standby, and I reckon there are people a lot more expensive than me, don't waste that money, put them toward a good Assistant Director instead, who can make sure things keep rolling. Stupid delays that should have been avoided, where an entire film crew is standing around doing nothing, is money straight down the drain. That's all I can think of right now, I hope others from the movie industry will chip in with their experiences and tips to the newcomers.
As a film student-- great advice! One thing I'd maybe note is that it's not always the ADs fault if things aren't running super efficiently, though. I found myself in an awkward situation when I had to AD for someone who was both Director and DP, and despite my repeated requests-- no shot list. None. Anytime I tried to form any semblance of plans with what info I had at the time, a new shot would get added, or one would get removed-- so I was constantly scrambling to make sure I understood what was happening, more or less planning for what was to come. Add to this I had to take over a couple of unfilled jobs, and boy oh boy did the stress set in. People don't realize a lack of planning can hurt other sections of the crew besides themselves. At least I got the memo. Not sure about the Director though 😅
@@_connorsseur Nah, of course it's not always the AD's fault when things don't go according to plan, all sorts of problems can occur, and they do, what I meant was that a good AD is worth his or her weight in gold.
Hello 11 months ago, if you get the notification I’d love to pick your brain. I just graduated with BFA in graphic design, but got associated with the film people in my final year and shifted career plans because this shit is cool. My circle of film students / recent graduated film students usually asks me to AD, which is a role I enjoy and want to do more of. so I’m trying to grapple with the difference in what it entails between, for example, project A, “a bunch of 21 year olds making a short film on weekends with $250 and a shopping cart for a dolly” and project B, “a long term production with a budget, producers, and more than ten people between cast and crew”. So, question: If my producers have hired you as SFX, obviously I don’t want you sitting around wasting your time and their money. But is it bad form for me to say “alright, we need SFX for this shot on day 7, this shot on day 9, and this shot on day 13, so I’m gonna call them in for an hour and a half each of those days”? In theory, wouldn’t you prefer to work in one chunk on one day rather than having a fractured schedule with random little obligations here and there? Or is that just kinda the gig economy? I can’t make a schedule that makes everyone totally happy, that’s just a fact, but I try hard not to be a dick in the way I do it. Another question, if you’ll humor. I just wrapped a short film on which I was something more like a UPM and did some producer stuff (was in on most of the production meetings, location scoutings, etc) but also AD’d. We filmed all the scenes outdoors and on location. This was just students from both of the schools in town, no paychecks except for some editor who the director really wanted to get, we’re all just scratching each other’s backs here. So I really tried to take care to provide good working conditions, food, water, shade, etc since everyone was out there on volunteer basis. But the bathroom thing is hard- we’re filming on dirt roads in the middle of nowhere in the desert and the forest. All but one of our five locations were more than 15 minutes from any facilities, one of them was about a 30-45 minute drive from any facilities, so we were typically spending three to four hours away from bathrooms. Should I have just put my foot down and said no, we either find other locations with restroom access nearby or we buy a uhaul and port o potty or something? I got no complaints, but at this level, people have a tendency to keep things to themselves for the sake of some kind of young artist stoicism (even though I wish they wouldn’t, because if I know what’s going wrong then I can try to improve it)
@@_connorsseur I’ve learned that if I’m working with director and/ or DP and they refuse to do shot lists, it’s pointless to cry over spilled milk. Adapt. Instead, I’ll say “since you won’t give me shot lists, we need to schedule extra time for you to do your improvisational Hollywood director bullshit and it’s going to mean that everyone spends twice as long on the project as they would if you had shot lists.” Because I refuse to schedule any more shoots that are destined to end with “crap, everyone has to come back out here tomorrow because we didn’t get everything” and I refuse to repeat the experience I had of yelling at my director and DP to quit frantically filming b roll of water dripping from the faucet of an airbnb as the owners were waiting outside and everyone was scrambling to get equipment out of the place because we’d already overstayed by several hours. I just refuse. A good director and a good DP understand that if they really do work better improvisationally (most don’t, and almost all new artists don’t) then that’s their right, but they better find a producer that’s cool with spending extra time and resources on it. Because you’re right, there’s no way to schedule for improvisation. You just have to say “okay, we’re shooting an action scene? Oh, it’s 2 3/8 pages of dialogue and action? Okay, this is gonna be three full shooting days and I guess we’ll get it done anywhere between a half a day and three full days. I can make no promises.” They’ll either get with it and make a shot list, or they’ll work really hard to get producers, actors, and crew who are able to spend extra time and resources on the production. Improvisational directing can absolutely not work when the director and DP aren’t on the same page though. That’s why the Airbnb faucet b roll happened. We spent two thirds of the time humoring the director’s plans, two thirds of the time humoring the DP’s plans, and another five thirds of the scheduled time scrambling around and wasting time. But on my more recent project, the director and DP/ camera op were pretty much in sync and it worked just fine. We only went over my anticipated times a couple days and only by an hour or two each one.
I made a short film in junior year of high school with my two friends and it was exactly like this. Then one of those two friends graduated and went on to play a recurring speaking roll in Netflix's Daybreak. Humble beginnings, y'all
Did my first student short film recently. One of my actors called out, the lighting guy didn’t show up, and there was a dog at the Airbnb that I didn’t know about
@@cackm I'm pretty sure I saw a yt video of a guy editing 4k on a macbook pro 2012 lol. Though I think it did have 16gb ram, i7 quad core, 1gb gpu, and an ssd. Which is what mine has. I havent edited 4k on it, but 1080p works fine and I can scrub flawlessly.
if you would like to cyberbully me please follow me on twitter @Gusbuckets
Ima bully u
Let me get this straight: You comment something that is unrelated to the fact that I have two DANGEROUSLY DASHING girlfriends? Considering that I am the unprettiest UA-camr ever, having two hot girlfriends is really incredible. Yet you did not mention that at all. I am quite disappointed, dear gus
i finna fix u in post
yey!
I have a game boy
This whole video was actually just created in post
Gus is all cgi. And there is no set just a green screen
You're so cool Joker!
Every one of Gus' sketches feels like he had something really annoying happen to him and he immediately made a video about it when he got home
Gus is the Karen of youtube sketches
He will do a SCATHING youtube sketch of you when he gets home
Like the tough kid one
@Zimmit's FunHouse Adventure That was my first Gus Johnson video! I had no idea he did bits at the time. I was just like "wow, this guy is committed to finding the truth!". Also I always get jalapenos on my subs and they really do have way too many ends. Like seriously, there's only one yucky end per pepper possible (the little end is totally fine and not annoying in any way), how is every third jalapeno slice an end slice?
Imagine how many Gordon Ramsay videos he watched to make the Actual Gordon Ramsay Cooking Video
this is the exact right way to describe what it feels like, thanks for putting my thoughts into words
"Sir none of the actors showed up"
"we'll just fix it in post"
and thus the polar express was born.
Underrated comment
😂😂😭😭😭
Well it appears only Tom Hanks showed up. Hey Tom, we need you to play like all of the characters
LMAAAAOOO FACTS 😭😭😭
@@Chronixx6 I assumed before that it was how Europeans must have looked like lmaoooo
You forgot the part where they eventually end up scrapping the film altogether and never release it.
it hurts how accurate this is
A Moose pretty much beta games to
those films never get released
No no. The true gems of this genre DO get released due to the overwhelming hubris of their directors. And because there's fuck-all going on in the school's film department because they're not at an arts school - they went to the state agriculture school - it will not only be taken seriously but also probably put in the running for a student film award. It won't win, life isn't that cruel (yet), but the awards people presumably have to sit and watch this garbage and I think about that sometimes.
Anyway "Dystopian Teen Power Reflections" will get like runner up or some shit and the absolute doorstop who "directed" it will unironically put that on his resume when he's applying for assistant manager at GameStop.
Frik don't remind me
Bonus points if most of the savings went towards hiring the local E-list actor playing the main character who was the waiter in the background of the 39th season of some soap opera.
Cameron Goode omg accurate
This is too specific to not have a story attached to it
bonus bonus points if their costar is an old lady active in community theater who you found on craigslist
bonus bonus bonus points if you DID get refreshments but it's just half a bottle of root beer and a cold pizza
maybe some lukewarm baby carrots if you were feeling kinda quirky
Okay let's try that one more time but with more emotion this time.
Oof that's a deep cut.
Once more with talent
We'll just fix it in post
@@Edwarnator oh no
A little happier, and with your mouth open.
I fell like this is just Gus’s filming routine and not actually a satire sketch on student film sets
@@AxxLAfriku ok.
Something he's probably dealt with before.
Like a lot of great observational comedy I have no familiarity with the scenario but it still rings true.
Keep calm, Leviathan aren't that scary.. c;
@@AxxLAfriku gay
"this is gonna get big" - every student film director
That mindset is why so many aspiring directors never get anywhere. When you're first starting out, all that matters is building your portfolio.
George Lucas: I just wanted to tell a story even if I have to fund my projects myself.
Paul Beleuta you need a portfolio to land a job making films lol, do you know what a portfolio is? It includes any films you’ve made or contributed to sorry but I don’t think your gonna get a job with no proof of what you can do
@Paul Beleuta I'm at College (England so i'm seventeen) for Film Studies and Media and after six months we still haven't touched a camera or got remotely close to writing a screenplay...
@@MrSimpleton Film studies is about studying film creation, right? The historical and cultural impacts of film. You're doing an A-Level correct? If you wanted to be making films, you should have done a vocational in Creative Media Productions. Though, I could be wrong, but 2 years ago when I was doing my A-Levels I studied Creative Media Productions. We we're creating adverts, videos, graphic design, photography and a 5 minuet documentary by year 1. I think you're on the wrong course mate.
“Dude you know what’d be a sick shot is if we put the camera IN the fridge while he’s pulling out that beer”
This one is too real
Been there done that.
I see that way too much
real technique is putting the camera in the beer
I'm in this comment and I don't like it
I'm at the end of film school, this is disturbingly realistic.
B Dunphy tf kind of filmschool are you going to
@@carrotcake6572 Why do you ask that? Everybody starts doing very amateurish things in film school.
Britzlar although this is a satirical video, no film students are this naive and stupid. And more importantly, the guy said he’s at the end of film school. That’s almost four years of experience and intensive education
@@carrotcake6572 What I meant is that EVERYBODY going to film school starts this way, not knowing shit about how to plan a shoot. I know this is satirical. Its an exageration. But it's an exageration of something that does happen more often than you appear to think.
Question is it worth it
9am: "Alright, we should have this scene wrapped up by lunchtime."
8pm: "If everyone could hang around for another couple of hours to finish up I'd really appreciate it."
As a director who has said this, I apologise.
Director: "Can we just get on more shot?"
The AD: *dies inside*
The Actors: *fall unconscious*
Me, the cinematographer: "no."
I can feel this moment in my bones
ALLLLLLWAYS 🤣🤣
Never trust "we'll be done by the afternoon"
Yeah this is the worst. Working on a film where the director/producer gives no thought to people's time. Real quick way to piss off talent and your crew.
"ISO to 8000" I cant fathom anyone I real life who would do such a cursed thing.
What does that mean? It sounds hilarious but I don't know what ISO is or what a normal level should be.
@@tasharice2781 ISO is used to make the video look brighter, but on most cameras if you bump it past 800 the image starts looking super grainy and over exposed, so putting it at 8000 would blotch the image and hurt the viewers eyes...
deep fried films
@Questly Snipes what’s your IMDb page?
@@tasharice2781 basically like increasing the exposure on a really dark, low quality JPEG.
“Hey actors? Good luck getting the footage, which I know is the only reason that you are doing this project, because I will not respond to your multiple messages asking for it and you will never hear from me again” -every student film director
yes, this one is important.
True lol. I was in a short film and I have no idea how to get the footage
R B that’s awful and yeah I feel you...the only footage I have is from projects where I was friends with the people who filmed it or I was part of filming it myself. I filmed a short film for free last year and it was the worst filming experience of my life. Over 90 degree weather, patting the sweat off of my body in between takes, and I got a weird sunburn on my knees that I still have now...but no footage. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Salomé King how long ago did you film it?
@@Ratisha_Official 8 years of acting and NO footage? Hmm....name some movies you're in.
To top it all off, "post" refers to iMovie.
More like a pirated Sony Vegas.
Co Robertco Or 20 dollar humble bundle Sony Vegas
I use iMovie
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@@kokorobertco Oh yeah, this one knows the harsh truth
Opening shot for every student film:
Waking up to an alarm clock ⏰
Can the main character be a hitman who feels bad? Or a student who is late on a homework assignment? Or someone who is just miserable with no progression before the end of the film?
Camera in fridge shot
"Tarantino was in his 30s when he made Pulp Fiction, and I'm not even 20 yet, sooo...."
Pj Mills “I plan on being a wunderkind writer/director/editor at 23, so don’t frick my stuff up guys.”
This is so fucking accurate it hurts lmfao
Ridley Scott was 40 before he did his first feature film. He also shot over 1,000 commercials before doing so.
oh duude I love you. You're underrated
Reminds me of Ed Wood lol
“I’m going to be the director” is such an underrated line here
I'm going to be the most famous person ever my videos will save the planet one day please take a look and if you dislike don't do it
AxxL dude you had to legit make a video questions am I dating my sisters your not gonna get big get a real job
how does this have 2.7k likes and TWO REPLIES
@@coffeebug when the fuck did this get 2.7k likes holy crap
I was in a student zombie film, and they actually seemed to have most of their shit together. It was all going well until the director tripped over the cords to his camera and broke it. Guy was super distraught, and we all had to go home until further notice. The movie was never made lol
"lol" is not the appropriate end to this story holy shit I'm crying
@@Guywithaclub maybe they all laughed because they would have killed each other otherwise.
Ouch
@@Guywithaclub to be fair my friend had me come in for a day as an extra so I wasn't super involved or invested, but you're right it was a bit of a tragedy. Just this many years later it was so abrupt that it's still kinda funny to me. But I get and appreciate your sentiment, albeit a year later
BATTERIES ONLY. No sympathy
Literally the first thing the director said to me was: "just sit down and pretend to watch something on TV. Then improvise whatever comes naturally....aaaand action
HAHAHA I LOVE BARBARA STREISAND.
This exact situation happened to me except what was on the tv was extremely disturbing because it was a horror short film but since the screen was just blank during filming my character is just staring quite interestedly at some pretty disturbing crap lol
@@ph6251 Same thing happened to me in a horror film I worked on. Luckily the director was fairly competent and had a complete vision for the film, and it was easier to emote.
I was in a student film once and we had to go to a lake for the shoot. While we were there, the camera battery died, the director’s phone died, and my phone was on 11%, so we filmed 90% of the shots on my iPhone 6
You’re a trooper
Wtf bro just go home at that point
That sounds horrible, yet I’d still want to be there just to see how it went down
"Shot on iphone"
I was in a student film once that tried to compete in the Coca-Cola commercial competitions. The short film was shot in a movie theater and the “director” forgot to scout out the area for adequate outlets. He threw such a fit when he realized there was no where to plug in his equipment lol.
Yeah I'll go!
Totally man, I'm down!
Dude I'm so excited!
I can't wait to film!
This is so cool!
Tomorrow is gonna be so cool when we film!
The day of shooting, 5 minutes before filming:
Yeah when I blink, I can't see, so I gotta go to the doctors. Can't make it man sorry.
Seriously, when I was directing a short, there were 3 instances where actors were totally excited the previous day and then the next day, they text 5 minutes before we were supposed to shoot that they "can't make it today."
Like, you made a commitment to be there - if you really can't, well, at least warn everyone before they fucking show up to film. And this has happened to me and my friends so many times when trying to film, where actors just don't show up without any warning.
@@gdaugvst my hot tip for making student actors more reliable is just get them to sign something, anything, before the day of shoot. as soon as theyve signed a form (can literally just be a random word doc you whipped up) they suddenly take the commitment a hell of a lot more seriously.
@@willcrossley bro i WISH i had this advice a few years ago, i had so many projects turn out garbage because actors just dropped out literally the day before filming, including TWO separate occasions where they postponed filing for a MONTH and caused me to lose pm all my production time lmfao. Aaaaahhh MEMORIES. I shouldve made em sign something lol
Dude you killed me with that blink thing ahahhahahahahhaha
I’ve had so many actors drop the day or even hour before shooting. I’m willing to bet 90% of them were not for a good reason.
Director: Gus
Actors: Gus
Cameraman: Gus
Background: Gus
Songs used: “Gus” by Gus
Camera used: Gus
Gus: _Gus._
He’ll fix it in post
Gus
With a special appearance from: Gus
Filmed on location at: Gus
Lighting: none
Neil breen likes that
I hate how much I can relate to this...
🅱️ruh
simp
I didnt expect to see you here, a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one
Right just about all my years of college were like this including one where I was this guy kinda...
@@user-tw1pm6nr5e bruh
“Oh we can just fix that in post”
Me, the editor looking at the footage sent to me 3 days before it’s due: NO TF WE CAN’T
What do you mean you can’t? Surely it can be fixed in post right? /s
Director: Why can't you use this shot.
Editor: It's very out of focus.
Director: Can't you fix it?
A conversation I have had with many student directors.
Twenty-Four “every student director needs to learn”-what do you think “student” means?
@@NoahLoveladyAllen what do you think student means? Is he not learning things for some reason?
I though i was the only 1 whos having the same conversation lol
''hey guys, my arm got cut off through the bus window on my way here so is there anyone here who know how to fix this ?''
Editors: We can make good shots better, but we cant make bad shots good
Like 50 people posted this to “Movie Set Memes” on Facebook so obviously you struck a chord with filmmakers.
A fellow MSM man of culture
Hello fellow MSM-er
Can confirm, he got it down to the details. The only one it was missing was the director also trying to act as the lead *cough cough*
"filmmakers"
What a story, Clark!
Don’t forget the golden rule of student films now: Shot, Reverse Shot. Shot, Reverse Shot. Shot, Reverse shot
what is a reverse shot?
@@jonahlindhe756 The shot/reverse-shot technique is when dialogue in a film is taking place (typically between two characters) the camera angle will switch back and forth over the two character’s shoulders for each line of dialogue.
@@adamrose524 ok, thanks
I think you give us too much credit.
Is this a real thing???😂😆😂 they don't just straight shot one and then the other?
*Film Student Friend:*
•Asked me to be an extra in his film (just to stand in the background)
•The night prior, sent me the full script?
•Also asked me that night if I could do the makeup for the male lead (who was supposed to be Thanos)
•When I showed up the next day for filming, asked me if I could be the lead female because their lead dropped out
•The SFX makeup stuff they brought for me to use was acrylic paint
:)
EDIT - The Lord Provides. Someone else who worked on the film uploaded it to YT. It’s Thanos Date by 3rd Gear Productions.
That actually sounds fun
The Athiest Messiah more fun than physics?
This is so real it hurts.
1. Did you make acrylic thanos and 2. How did it look
Not a big deal, she’ll just fix it in post
Damn this is a pretty good documentary on how nostalgia critic makes his movies
Oof
Great observation
Didn't he make like... One movie?
Not enough crying and people being hurt
Annoying Kid 47 no he made a few but they were all disasters during production with pretty much every issue gus showed in this video
Teenagers with special powers who live in a dystopian society. Sounds like every teen movie since hunger games
and they still slap
@Scom Tott Hell Yeah
Actually since well before that in 2008. Hunger Games was just a lame fad movie pandering to that.
@@KandiKlover hunger games fuckin slaps
@Scom Tott Hey! Smallville actually slaps
My Parents: *get divorced*
Me: _eh, I’ll just fix it in post._
Oh god too accurate
i feel like this could be a new slang term for therapy...
I’m dying
❤
Hyyyyeep
"Im the director" Says the guy holding the camera with no audio.
YOU CAN EVEN SEE THE DP IN THE MIRROR AT :18. IT REALLY IS A STUDNT FILM!
Yup, this is amazing.
Dw, he’ll just fix it in post
I didn't even notice that good eye
I did not see any double penetration in the mirror
Sounds are added in post production
This is actually a genuinely informative video for prospective filmmakers on things they need to consider
"What kind of films are you into?"
"Oh you know, pulp fiction, memento, boon-dock saints, the entire marvel universe..."
Inception
I feel personally attacked...
there is a, as we say, "Film bro" in my theatre class in college and i don't have any problems with anyone but he just grinds my gears
I’m at film school right now, these filmbro stereotypes are a little outdated. They have moved on to Drive jackets and Criterion Collections.
Aw man I like those though lol...
First time I shot a film. We drove two hours to the woods for a full day shoot and after 30min the camera guy told me his memory card was full and had no way of dumping it.
Wow
I mean you guys are in the woods....I would of left his body there.......😐
HAHAHAHAHAHAAH
Not laughing at you, just envisioning him telling you.
"I'm just gonna to ahead and set the iso to 8000"
Why is this a personal attack against all of humanity
"I could probably just get away with using the camera's internal microphone" just hits different while it's being said into a lav on your Big Lebowski sweater.
this reminds me of filmmakers who will ACTUALLY do this, because they want their behind-the scenes documentary to be higher quality than the film itself.
@@westingtyler1 OMG THIS IS SO RELATABLE
“Set the ISO to 8000” instantly gave me a headache.
What is ISO and what’s a normal level for comparison?
@@squidwardstesticles5914 a higher ISO level essentially let more light in to the lens, but at a quality loss that will make it more grainy, and a normal max ISO on cameras is like 1600, which you wouldn't even want to go that high if you don't have to because you're sacrificing quality.
@@squidwardstesticles5914 No exaggeration. 100. It's industry practice to spend thousands of dollars on film lights to avoid going over 100 and to stay well below 800
@@squidwardstesticles5914 It is a setting that dictates the cameras sensitivity to light. The higher the number, the more light that the camera will take in. So its useful for situations where there isn't very much light. The trade off is that the picture will look grainy and terrible. Typically keeping it around 100 - 800 ISO is preferred but you will need lighting equipment to be able to see any inside shot.
Thanks y’all
The “we’ll fix it in post” had me thinking about the worst film project I had been a part of. I was in a group project in college, and the group consisted of one bossy student and her friend who just listens to whatever she says and another girl who never talks and is a really passive person. So it wasn’t meshing well, and the bossy girl always got the laziest shots and of course she had to be the director and the camera person. Any idea that isn’t hers is a bad idea, and every single time a shot ends up looking bad she said we’ll fix it in post. After that terrible shooting, we got to editing, which I was thinking is our savior for the project cus maybe we could work with what we got and make something decent. But of course the bossy girl has to be the main editor, and she sucked at it. She has no idea what she was doing and yet she wanted to edit the full thing, I was the only one give her suggestions and ideas for editing while the others were just watching, and yet she wouldn’t listen. We decided that we’d split the editing and have each person edit certain parts. She still wanted to do the full thing so when she started doing it she got all confused, regretted it, and asked for help afterwards. OH and the worst part of all, on the day we had to present the project, she came in and brought her computer, and I was curious to see the end result because she didn’t even show us, turns out she still hasn’t finished editing and exporting it! Hours before we had to show the film. I was in disbelief, she wanted to edit it all by herself so bad but didn’t even end up finishing it in time. This all happened in art school too lmao.
That's so horrible 😭 I can't imagine goign through all that
"Okay, Im gonna need one theater student to take this too seriously and consider this his big break"
I feel so attacked.
“Hey can you walk through the background in this two minute video that we’re literally shooting in the library on an iPhone” * actor immediately goes home and makes an IMDb page*
Hey, someone has to commit.
I feel u, bro
Same!!!😭😭😭😭
"Okay, Im gonna need one theater student to take this too seriously and consider this his big break"
I feel so attacked.
Number of independent & "student" films and stage plays where I have literally thought that (lost count years ago)
the "i'll just fix it in post" is too true for like,,, any student that does film/photography
spoiler: i can never fix it in post
me: post is just making the entire scene again in 3D and oops I made an animated short
I am unattractive but I’m sure it can be fixed in post mortem
last semester i had a director that kept saying that and he wasnt even the editor. Spoiler alert: it wasnt fixed
That’s your cue to bounce from set!
"About teenagers, they have special powers and live in a dystopian society."
This concept sounds so new, so *original* it could be nothing other than a great success.
"It's 40 pages, but I'm pretty sure we'll be able to knock it out by 6pm."
This is pretty accurate lol. Could've added a part where the "director" forgets to take off the lens cap and can't figure out for 10 mins why all the shots are completely black
I mean, I'm a photography student and I almost always take one shot before realising that my cap is on and the lens hood is back to front.
And then loses the lens cap 5 min after taking it off
He jokes, but I’ve literally encountered every. single. one. of these things on real student film sets
"We can probably just use the camera's internal microphone"
As a sound guy, this gets a BIG OOF from me
"Okay guys, I have a bOoM mic, its just attached to the top of my camera and it cost me an extra $100. You cant say I dont care about sound!"
The only people who care about sound, are sound people
@@lorraineb682 and directors, once they hand off to post production and realise corner cutting ruined their film 😂
Most, if not all, sound captured on set *is shit.*
Director/producer - Sound is 50% of the experience.
Me - Then why is it 0.02% of the budget?
THAT “ONE THEATER STUDENT TO TAKE THIS WAY TOO SERIOUSLY” HIT LIKE A TON OF BRICKS LMAOOOOO
Like, dude, all you have to do in this scene is ask the other actor how his day was. Why are you crying?
I just did a student film and the lead role was just like that except he wasnt a theater student. Just kept saying "yea this is my first audition and I got it." We get it dude you're cool, we all got jobs too, I got my first 5 you know how many people I told, zero. Theres always one like that.
@@djscomedycorner6504 well ehm, you just told a bunch of people on the internet.
Skrrt Skrrt The streak was broken.
Bruh I started reading this once he started saying it
I accidentally did some of these things in high school when I decided to shoot a film... except I had food for everyone. Learned so much on that film and I’m happy to say I’ve never had a shoot organized so poorly since!
Can you tell me how you planned out the shoot and if possibly how you managed your grades. (Still in high school)
You should do a follow-up of ‘every student film editor’, man there’s so much to work with when it comes to amateur film parody.
“Let’s put a load of our hilarious outtakes in the credits, people will find our in-jokes without context absolutely hilarious”
The filmmakers always think that the bloopers would be hilarious, but legit no one likes them
My favorite thing to do when I got bored in the editing room was to find a funny noise or sound from an actor and paste it as it’s own audio track to get a chuckle
Literally nobody like them except for those involved and VERY close friends... Basically, it's pointless, and it will bring you nightmares a few days later, if not hours
Rei D T Right? I had to sit through so many of those things in college. Pure pain.
I'd be so interested in that since I do quite a bit of editing but I think I do lots of amateur mistakes. The outtakes being one of them lol
This takes me back to when crafty was just a countertop with a box of granola bars slapped on.
Hey Dan
Oh hi Daniel
HeyHEY! Dan's here!!
Daniel Thrasher and Gus Johnson? Is this some sort of crossover episode?
Please make a video together
Every time I regret dropping out of film school I rewatch this video and feel better about my choices.
Dont feel bad at all. It's a scam anyways. Any information you need from college is available for free on the internet. Plus, you cant "Teach" creativity. You either have it or you dont. A lot of these poor kids are meant to have happ, normal lives, yet completely fuck themselves thanks to a society that's convinced them they have to be these amazingly successful superstars. If you're normal, just be normal. A normal healthy life is litterally - and obviously - what people are supposed to have.
@@TheDirvish I agree completely! I started by making UA-cam videos for fun and now I do it for local businesses full time! I learned the technical stuff along the way as I needed to or wanted to improve in a certain area!
@@TheDirvish the entire point of universities and colleges is that you get connections, u make acquaintances and associate with ppl working in that field genius, before another one of yall mfs says tHe eDuCaTIoN sySTum iS a ScAm yeah well it is and it isn't, most college students either learn shit from seniors who are there on campus or from each other, or now, from youtube and the internet but if u are in a good college, you get access to placements in good companies etc.
well idek if it was worth my time explaining this to you but i hope u wont stay this ignorant going forward.
you forgot the unnecessarily loud "QUIET ON SET!" that the director has to say every time they take a 10 second take of unusable dialogue
But it’s yelling at people to shut up in cool film speak, which fulfills both my power and director fantasies!
60 SECONDS FOR ROOM TONE!! *director looks around hoping someone makes a sound so they get to yell it again*
I’m getting film school flashback fml
Trevor Wallace under a Gus Johnson vid? got damn!
@@kookofo they have videos together.
Why I can't I see the verified badge.
@@mrwatney3236 because it aint there.
@Yo! My playlist on fire!
OOOOOOOHHH! YOU JUST ROSTED HIM BRO!!! WTF BROO!! YOOOOO!!!
You forgot the 2 minute long shot of a character pouring and stirring coffee excruciatingly slowly.
I once volunteered for an extra role in a student film and was confused when we were told we can talk while they were filming the scene - turns out that they planned for 100% of the audio to be dubbed/ADR'd in post. It did not work out
People need to learn that it's the opposite, the background actors have to pretend to be talking, but not actually talk, while the background talking is added in post
This isn't that weird, if you're shooting somewhere / shooting angles where there'll be noise most major sets will just plan for ADR, there's an issue if you don't have the skillset to do that though.
He forgot to mention the tripod piece that always without a fault vanishes
This really made me feel like I wasn’t alone in the world. On one of my student films, an actress bailed at the last minute because I didn’t know I had to send out a call sheet and I had to get my mom to play the part 🤦♂️ my microphone also got BLASTED by wind when shooting outdoors and I had to use absolutely horrendous ADR to fix it. It was a technical train wreck, but it was SO worth it
Shameless plug for that student film: ua-cam.com/video/csk9MDzEmuw/v-deo.html
“I’m just gonna set the ISO right to 8000” I just died a little bit
in the fully lit white-wall appartment :D
Hehe indeed
@@norbertvarjasi5102 even as a photograph, im cringing... and of course only one lens and no light equipment...
"I have asked all of the actors to show up at the same time, even though we are not going to be filming for another 4 hours or so"
Word for word. Has happened to me multiple times.
And here I thought that was just something Tommy Wiseau does
@@emblemblade9245 he did NAHT
@@mikekasich836 Oh, hi Mark
This also happens on professional film shootings.
Former film student: "Oh cool something I'll relate to!"
12 seconds into video
"Oh no, this is already too relatable"
the amount of bottled up sass here is truly admirable.
this... is so very accurate, my roommate who is a film student can relate
You do have to be slightly pretentious to make a movie, probably why my porno movies are free
@@TheIndulged1 what
I read this as “my roommate who is a student film can relate”
Why not just say your roommate is a fry cook at Arby's? It's more honest.
Touno he wishes he was employed, being a fry cook would actually give him an income
I think all of us who’ve ever wanted to be filmmakers always felt at some point like we were the only ones who’ve wanted to be filmmakers.
Say what you want, but you can't deny making those films was fun as hell
I'm in college for film right now and I'll agree with you. Stressful but fun, especially when it's just you and your family and friends.
It really was more stressful than fun because I was the only one doing shiz
@@youngfunny1824 Lot different story when your program takes it self so seriously. But hey, i'll hopefully have a job after school so not complaints for me :)
@gaming kiddo I don't think he's referring to those types of films.
It really wasn’t lol
"Now, I know that the set is looking a little bare"
Best line
"Wrong! You're supposed to say [Insert overly dramatic line that sounds nothing like something a real person would say]"
"This is the fifth take, can't you just get us a copy of the script?"
"I don't have any copies"
"What!? You can't film without a script!"
"Guys it's fine! The script is all up in here"
*Points to his head while smiling unironically*
smiling unironically
The worst student feature I was ever a part of, the director just had these kids and old people walking around on slippery rocks in a rainstorm by the edge of a waterfall... and their lead actor had celiac disease and they kept forgetting to buy him food he could eat... and he got stung by a yellowjacket...
To be fair, on my worst student film, I forgot all of the batteries and we almost set a guy's arm on fire
I have several questions
Bro-
Please please PLEASE elaborate on that last one
were they filming the bee movie?
I was on a set where the director got two premium 14 inch pizzas for a crew of like 20. The lead actor, who was late to a job interview to do this 'film', was vegan and didn't even get to eat.
The fact that he’s wearing “The Big Lebowski” sweater makes this all the more fucking Awesome!!!
“We’ll just fix it in post”
That really got me😂😂😂
Me, interested in filming someday: **takes notes on what to never do**
Exactly, working on some stuff in school right now and I'm definently keeping this in mind
no this is a guide on what to do
This is pretty much just saying come prepared and do expect people to drop at random points, it happens a lot
I feel like, even if you know these things, you will still do some of them when you're starting out
@@Despair505 correct
Watching as someone who has no clue what he's talking about:
*Hmm yes, quite*
Its quite obvious
Elsborg It really is, though
@@jens2049 i think op meant that they cant really relate to it
what does iso mean
@@gavin563 I'm So Obtuse
Then after getting scared of something you found by accident, you give the tapes to a friend, quit film school, and your friend, after letting the tapes sit for three years in a closet, posts them on youtube and a few years later the thing you found by accident becomes one of the most well known and cliched creepypastas on the internet.
Yo can I get a more in depth explanation of this, sounds interesting
Care to explain ?
this sounds specific care to explain
@@wyattunrue5354 they're referring to marble hornets, a popular web series based around slenderman
"Craft table" is huge jar of peanut butter, one knife, loaf of wonder bread, two fully green bananas and a bag of smashed oreos (no cream just the cookie part)
Stop you're triggering me 🤣😩
I like green 'nanners.
The only part he’s missing is “We need the makeup guy to be here the whole time in case someone needs a touch up” but everyone isn’t wearing anything beyond foundation and setting powder
You forgot the one girl who has to bring this up at every family even years after she graduated
“I’m just gonna set the ISO to 8000” WHEN I SAY I ALMOST DIED
just open the fuCKinG aperture
sorry i just got a little heated
aah takes me back to the good old days freshman year where people would just slam the camera on a tripod and do literally nothing else. Would it KILL you to set the goddamn white balance?!
Me too!
I died at “4gb memory card” LMAOOOOOO that’s like two straight minutes of footage
@@dancergirl3337 "we'll fix that in post" while shooting in a fucked up video profile that makes color correction impossible without making everyone look like porcelain dolls lol!
As someone considering getting my undergrad in film, I’ve accepted that I’ll just be unemployed my whole life
If you're in LA you'll find work fairly easily. But then you gotta move to, and live in, LA. Tough call.
Or you could just go to Atlanta and skip the nightmare that LA is. Atlanta is much more affordable long term.
As someone with ADHD who went into college for political science and writing but ended up at a nursing college (fucking ADHD made me miss half of the S.A.Ts...) you will. And probably drop out, too.
Really depends on what you wanna do. Editors, gaffers, etc can almost always find work somewhere. Writers and directors? Much more difficult.
This is far too accurate. The only thing missing is the "director" asking the "cast and crew" if they've seen any Quentin Tarantino and/ or Martin Scorsese movies and then proceeds to judge everyone who says they haven't.
"I could probably just get away with using the cameras internal microphone"
NO. NONONO
"but it's windy"
"i'll just make the sound file louder in post"
_"I'm just going to set the ISO right to _*_8000"_*
He’s missing the producer who thinks being rude make the film set go smoother.
as someone who went to a school making movies, this is painfully accurate
same
Yup especially the internal microphones.
Nice profile picture. What film did you get it from?
@Alexandre Meyer 😂😂
@Tyler, the Destroyer 🤣🤣🤣
"I'm gonna need one theater student to take this way to seriously and assume this is their big break"
Hi, that would be me 😂😭
This is BARLEY an exaggeration. All of this is damn near verbatim, from almost every student film.
I thought he was going to say "okay rolling, and the memory card is full."
"Sir, the whole cast just fucking died on camera."
"That's okay, we'll fix it in post."
"I brought no snacks and no refreshments for you guys, but that's ok because -the owner of the house said we're not supposed to use this bathroom- *OK* "
The mad lad did it, He actually simulated a student film set, so accurate, so proud
0:40 "y’know I’m just gonna set the ISO right to 8000"
The video just started and I’m dead
"We can just fix it in post" - Literally every amateur film maker ever
Even a lot of well established film makers unfortunately
Michaela they atleast have the tech and know how to do it properly.
It’s almost like that is the exact joke that Gus was making in the video...🤷🏻♂️
HUNGRY COW lol, you’d be surprised
IKR but that’s how you get likes I guess
Wow, this is way too accurate. I literally had the "main actor can't come" happen to me a few weeks ago for our final project
Heeeeeeej same
Literally same for my final last semester, I rewrote the entire script overnight
See, this is why I just use my family members lol.
Heeeeeeej I had a portfolio to apply for university and the main actress dropped out the day before we were supposed to shoot lol
Yeah us too. We need the actor for our last scene so we shot an alternate scene without him. It was frustrating af.
Luckily I've only been on _one_ student film set, and although it wasn't nearly as bad as portrayed here, there _was_ room for improvement. I've worked as an SFX techie for around 16 years by now, and I have a few tips for you new upcoming filmmakers, that I hope you find useful. Please remember this is all from an SFX techie's point of view, although some of it is relevant for everyone.
1. If you're filming for an entire day, make sure you've arranged for toilet facilities, anyone worth his or her salt in the industry will have made sure to do their business _before_ showing up on set, but make sure your crew has access to a bathroom, we are only humans and anyone can get hit with a case of food poisoning.
2. If you need custom-built props, make sure you order them well in advance. I can't even count the number of times I've been asked what it would cost to build something, and giving a price provided I get the time to build whatever prop is needed, only to learn that the customer would like to shop around a bit first and get some other offers, which is totally their right, but they need to understand that the price changes when they come back close to deadline because they couldn't find anyone else that could either do the job, or do it cheaper. In effect, they've wasted time and money trying to get a better deal, because now I have to get the job done in a lot less time, and have to reorganize everything else I might've planned. Also, please do realize that it takes time to order and have materials delivered, no SFX shop has all the materials they could possibly have a need for on hand at any given time. I know changes to the script may occur, frankly, it does more often than not, but regarding props, order well ahead of schedule, it saves you money in the long run.
3. If you're shooting for a whole day, make sure your crew is fed!
Now, where I live, for some odd reason the concept of only feeding your crew some light vegan bullshit has snuck in. Apparently, they think they can feed us rabbit food. That might work for self-righteous vegans in the administration, that never have to do any hard work at all, but for the guys and girls on the floor, we need something more, we need a good solid lunch to keep going. And make sure there's plenty of coffee and snacks to keep the blood sugar levels up, nothing will bring you down faster, and make you work slower and more inefficient, than not being taken care of. I'd say you should probably have at least one person per 20 crew members, whose only job is to make sure that everyone is happy. For the past couple of months, I've been on a production as an occasional back-up to the guy we have on set permanently, he lost 4 kgs on the first week, and 3 kgs the following, simply because they worked long days and were fed nothing but a small amount of rabbit food. The days my company had to be there full crew to do some set construction, we went and got burgers, pizzas, and what have you, in the lunch break. The carpenters did the same thing. I don't think anyone else besides us, ate just somewhat decently in that period. Eventually, the regular people there got fed up with the lack of suitable food served and complained to the top brass, and that made a difference - we're still being served rabbit food, but at least they've included actual meat now. Not that they've included enough - the props master is the skinniest chick I've seen in a long time, and a few days ago at lunch, she was looking sadly at her empty bowl of spaghetti bolognese saying "I could've eaten six of these", to which my colleague, being around a 100 kgs worth of US Marine SOF said, "I could easily have eaten 10 and would still have room for more"... The moral of the story is, _feed your crew!_
4. Hire a good AD! Nothing reeks more of incompetence than a shoot where nobody keeps things on track, _on time,_ and it's going to cost you a lot more in the long run if you're wasting time and people are standing still. Let me give you an example, twice I've been called out to our current production to make weather effects, the first time I sat on my ass for half a day, the second time I sat on my ass for a full day, only to be called up in the last half hour to make a bit of wind. Now, I don't know what the company charges the customer, but a recent glance at a bill for another production tells me that I've probably cost the production company somewhere around $1500, doing fuck all for 12 hours. It isn't cheap to have an SFX guy on standby, and I reckon there are people a lot more expensive than me, don't waste that money, put them toward a good Assistant Director instead, who can make sure things keep rolling. Stupid delays that should have been avoided, where an entire film crew is standing around doing nothing, is money straight down the drain.
That's all I can think of right now, I hope others from the movie industry will chip in with their experiences and tips to the newcomers.
thank you
As a film student-- great advice! One thing I'd maybe note is that it's not always the ADs fault if things aren't running super efficiently, though. I found myself in an awkward situation when I had to AD for someone who was both Director and DP, and despite my repeated requests-- no shot list. None.
Anytime I tried to form any semblance of plans with what info I had at the time, a new shot would get added, or one would get removed-- so I was constantly scrambling to make sure I understood what was happening, more or less planning for what was to come. Add to this I had to take over a couple of unfilled jobs, and boy oh boy did the stress set in.
People don't realize a lack of planning can hurt other sections of the crew besides themselves. At least I got the memo. Not sure about the Director though 😅
@@_connorsseur Nah, of course it's not always the AD's fault when things don't go according to plan, all sorts of problems can occur, and they do, what I meant was that a good AD is worth his or her weight in gold.
Hello 11 months ago, if you get the notification I’d love to pick your brain. I just graduated with BFA in graphic design, but got associated with the film people in my final year and shifted career plans because this shit is cool. My circle of film students / recent graduated film students usually asks me to AD, which is a role I enjoy and want to do more of. so I’m trying to grapple with the difference in what it entails between, for example, project A, “a bunch of 21 year olds making a short film on weekends with $250 and a shopping cart for a dolly” and project B, “a long term production with a budget, producers, and more than ten people between cast and crew”.
So, question: If my producers have hired you as SFX, obviously I don’t want you sitting around wasting your time and their money. But is it bad form for me to say “alright, we need SFX for this shot on day 7, this shot on day 9, and this shot on day 13, so I’m gonna call them in for an hour and a half each of those days”? In theory, wouldn’t you prefer to work in one chunk on one day rather than having a fractured schedule with random little obligations here and there? Or is that just kinda the gig economy? I can’t make a schedule that makes everyone totally happy, that’s just a fact, but I try hard not to be a dick in the way I do it.
Another question, if you’ll humor. I just wrapped a short film on which I was something more like a UPM and did some producer stuff (was in on most of the production meetings, location scoutings, etc) but also AD’d. We filmed all the scenes outdoors and on location. This was just students from both of the schools in town, no paychecks except for some editor who the director really wanted to get, we’re all just scratching each other’s backs here. So I really tried to take care to provide good working conditions, food, water, shade, etc since everyone was out there on volunteer basis. But the bathroom thing is hard- we’re filming on dirt roads in the middle of nowhere in the desert and the forest. All but one of our five locations were more than 15 minutes from any facilities, one of them was about a 30-45 minute drive from any facilities, so we were typically spending three to four hours away from bathrooms. Should I have just put my foot down and said no, we either find other locations with restroom access nearby or we buy a uhaul and port o potty or something? I got no complaints, but at this level, people have a tendency to keep things to themselves for the sake of some kind of young artist stoicism (even though I wish they wouldn’t, because if I know what’s going wrong then I can try to improve it)
@@_connorsseur I’ve learned that if I’m working with director and/ or DP and they refuse to do shot lists, it’s pointless to cry over spilled milk. Adapt. Instead, I’ll say “since you won’t give me shot lists, we need to schedule extra time for you to do your improvisational Hollywood director bullshit and it’s going to mean that everyone spends twice as long on the project as they would if you had shot lists.” Because I refuse to schedule any more shoots that are destined to end with “crap, everyone has to come back out here tomorrow because we didn’t get everything” and I refuse to repeat the experience I had of yelling at my director and DP to quit frantically filming b roll of water dripping from the faucet of an airbnb as the owners were waiting outside and everyone was scrambling to get equipment out of the place because we’d already overstayed by several hours. I just refuse. A good director and a good DP understand that if they really do work better improvisationally (most don’t, and almost all new artists don’t) then that’s their right, but they better find a producer that’s cool with spending extra time and resources on it.
Because you’re right, there’s no way to schedule for improvisation. You just have to say “okay, we’re shooting an action scene? Oh, it’s 2 3/8 pages of dialogue and action? Okay, this is gonna be three full shooting days and I guess we’ll get it done anywhere between a half a day and three full days. I can make no promises.”
They’ll either get with it and make a shot list, or they’ll work really hard to get producers, actors, and crew who are able to spend extra time and resources on the production.
Improvisational directing can absolutely not work when the director and DP aren’t on the same page though. That’s why the Airbnb faucet b roll happened. We spent two thirds of the time humoring the director’s plans, two thirds of the time humoring the DP’s plans, and another five thirds of the scheduled time scrambling around and wasting time. But on my more recent project, the director and DP/ camera op were pretty much in sync and it worked just fine. We only went over my anticipated times a couple days and only by an hour or two each one.
Gus: Jokes about 2014 Macbook
Me, who edits his videos on a 2014 Macbook: Haha... Wait HEY
Haha I thought the same looking over at my near-useless Acer laptop. I WISH I had a 2014 macbook...
I think that's the model that Gus also uses.
@@benulisse8327 i had to become an ebay macbook specialist to get mine without getting scammed
I edit my videos on a 2014 imac...it hurts ain't it
KennysFit joke’s on you i don’t own any sort of computer.
Director after realizing he left the lens cap on the whole time.
"We'll just fix that in post."
"I sent over the script last night, I expect you to be fully memorized."
I feel so attacked 😂😂
Nobody is going to acknowledge he has "The Dude"s sweater!?
That's just like... Your opinion man.
(the dude abides)
God I hope he doesn't piss on my rug
Far out, man
Paused the video 2 seconds in to check if anyone said anything about the sweater lol
That sweater really ties the video together
I made a short film in junior year of high school with my two friends and it was exactly like this. Then one of those two friends graduated and went on to play a recurring speaking roll in Netflix's Daybreak.
Humble beginnings, y'all
What is a speaking roll?
@@onelusciouslad7841 A role where you have spoken lines rather than just an extra that doesn't talk
@@Kai-K That's really cool. What do they look like so I can look for them?
Did my first student short film recently. One of my actors called out, the lighting guy didn’t show up, and there was a dog at the Airbnb that I didn’t know about
sounds fun
I'm assuming the dog replaced the actor who called out
Student Director: *Mentions 2014 MacBook*
People with 2015 Macbooks: *Nervous Laughter*
Macbook *Air* You should still be good with a Pro as long as you're not working with 4K.
Ive still using my 2011 MBP...
@@Stepantc 15 inch I am guessing? Do you have trouble working with 4K material?
@@cackm I'm pretty sure I saw a yt video of a guy editing 4k on a macbook pro 2012 lol.
Though I think it did have 16gb ram, i7 quad core, 1gb gpu, and an ssd. Which is what mine has. I havent edited 4k on it, but 1080p works fine and I can scrub flawlessly.
@@cackm wym should be good? People are used to having a lagless experience in editing software?