- Let's talk about who is a filmmaker,
what that means,
and why you might actually be
one without even knowing it.
- Just a quick stop here at Warner Bros.,
no big deal.
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Welcome to my home away from home,
this is my edit bay, and it is lunch hour.
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A few years ago I read a
book by Jared Diamond called
'Guns, Germs, and Steel'.
Fascinating book talking about
how societies grow and change,
and one of the big drivers
of change in any society
is technology.
Which is a big deal for us as creators
because for almost a century,
the idea of being a filmmaker
meant showing up to places like this.
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Using technology like this.
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But, technology changes
and even though people are
still using this stuff,
there are other people
shooting feature length films on this.
So, if technology, is more
and more no longer a barrier
to being a filmmaker,
than what does that word
actually even mean anymore?
My friend Cody Wanner
was in L.A. recently,
and he is the co-owner
of a production company
in Harrisburg, Pennsylavania,
and he is an amazing daily vlogger,
and I asked him what he thinks
it means to be a filmmaker.
- Just a quick stop over
here at Warner Bros.,
no big deal.
- Alright so, dude, this right back here.
- Yeah.
- Is the back lot of Warner Bros.
So this is like, this is one of the major,
major motion picture
studios in the entire world.
It's been here for over a century.
- Yeah.
- And my question for you is,
when a YouTuber says, "I'm a filmmaker."
- Yeah.
- Do you think there's a bar
that needs to be met to say,
what makes a filmmaker a filmmaker?
- That's a great question.
I mean, I think there are just,
we're at so many different levels now,
we have so many different
levels of filmmaking,
you know, there's kids,
there's six year old kids
who are cutting movies
on iMovie and you know,
then the whole way up to kinda this level
and everything in between.
You know, is I think so much so,
the games are just different games now.
It's not just this is one thing,
that's one thing,
you know screen recording,
like live broadcasting on
Twitch, that's another thing,
they're all different games and so,
a filmmaker, it means a lot
more than it used to mean.
- Yeah, so like when you talk to people
in the entertainment industry,
they get really snotty, really quick.
- Yeah.
- Because they're like, "Please."
- Right, right, you too.
- Hello YouTubers, you own a DSLR,
you are not a filmmaker.
- Right.
- Because you own a DSLR.
And it's like well, it
depends on who you talk to.
- Right.
- And it depends on the context.
- Right.
- I mean, Hollywood has been
changing, for years and years,
and the fact that we can use one of these,
you know, that's the tool here.
Not like these massive
sound stages behind me.
- Right.
- They have their place, but boy,
it's just incredible to think
how the world's changed.
- It's changed drastically.
Everybody, I mean I like
what you said earlier,
like this is the camera, right here.
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- I spent almost 20 years in
the entertainment industry
figuring out what it
means to be a filmmaker,
like right now,
and I will say I think a big part of it is
the idea of being cinematic.
Creating moments that feel
like you're in a movie.
I think that's a big deal,
but even that idea right
there is not at all clear,
I mean, I did a Livestream
talking about what it
means to be cinematic,
and when you ask that to people
you get as many answers
as you have people.
So, in this case,
I would love to know,
what do you think it
means to be a filmmaker?
I would love to get your comments
and let's talk about this,
and in the meantime,
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