CHAPTER 1 ESSENTIALS

• Moving images and the modern digital technology and workflows used to create, combine, edit, and distribute such imagery make filmmaking the most liberating and open of all art forms. This offers you the opportunity to express your creativity in literally endless ways, learning skills and techniques that will benefit you in many fields, whether or not you end up in a filmmaking career.
• The foundational principles on which all filmmaking endeavors are based are collaboration, emphasizing story and character above all else, and developing an ability to problem-solve in multiple scenarios.
• There are six viewpoints that collectively bring a film story together. Those viewpoints involve the perspective of the producer, the writer, the director, the editor, the image and sound crew, and the audience, which must connect emotionally with the filmmaker’s efforts to make the movie experience complete.
• All movies, no matter how simple or complex, must follow a basic filmmaking path on their way to completion. That path includes a process of designing, capturing, manipulating, editing, and finalizing images, sounds, and other elements, to tell a story that incorporates characters, the passage of time, conflict, and more in order to link a filmmaker’s point of view with an audience’s emotional response.