Advice To Filmmakers Who Are Just Starting Out - Brad Sykes
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- Brad Sykes is an award-winning filmmaker and author based in Los Angeles. Brad attended Boston University’s film program, graduating cum laude. After moving to Los Angeles and working in studio production and development, Sykes made his feature debut with the horror comedy SCREAM QUEEN, starring genre icon Linnea Quigley. Sykes has since written and directed over twenty feature films. He co-runs Nightfall Pictures with his wife and producing partner Josephina Sykes.
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In 2000 someone came to speak to us at our highschool in my freshman or sophomore year. He was a graduate of our small school and he had since gone out to LA and was involved in film making of some sort. I remember the gist of what he said being that just because you come from a small school doesn't mean you can't become someone bigger in life. I remember he made us stand up and clap quickly, then told us we had just boosted our immune system right at the start. My junior year I took Mass Media 1 & 2 all year long, then since there were no more available options I took on Journalism my senior year. In my senior year I helped make 2 different videos, one took first place in the county for "Whacky" video; the second was a 60 second advertisement for Key Club that took 2nd place in the nation. I had so much fun with those videos. It wasn't until recently I sat down and really had time to think about what I wanted to do in life outside of my IT job and I wrote a series of scripts that had me laughing and having goosebumps at times. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and the end products were so good I got them copyrighted. I'm currently debating where I should go to college at age 36 with my GI Bill here in Florida. I'm thinking Full Sail since it will be 100% covered. I have a feeling since I now know what I want to go there for and have a clear vision and purpose I will be able to make the most out of it.
Wish you all the best man
think forward 30 years - do you want to be sitting the 'rocking chair of regret'? just fuckin do it man.
Love the clip. Thank you always 🤙🏽
Using fire crackers as a gun sound effect. Thanks for the tip
He wasn't using it as the sound effect; he was using it as the squib. In other words, an actor had a lit firecracker taped to him or her and it exploded.
What advice would you have for filmmakers who are just starting out?
Just do it!
don't wait for the perfect time or resources, cause it probably wont' come.
Network and make friends with filmmakers and actors. There are days where you can’t do it alone unless you have money to hire a crew as well pay actors
Make sure your batteries are charged
Never thought I'd hear someone say Steven Spielberg is just coasting along.
Tony Scott is another director who received critical praise for "True Romance" and "Crimson Tide" but then got bashed by the critics and received Rotten Tomato ratings for "Top Gun", "Days of Thunder", "Man on Fire", "Deja Vu", "The Last Boy Scout", "The Fan", and "Domino", all good films in the action-thriller sub-genre, IMO. "Spy Game" and "Enemy of the State" got slightly better reviews, but these films deserved way better than their current 66% and 72% RT scores, respectively.
I do want to write something good some day and I hope I can. Most likely i won't get any where but it's useless not to try, so thanks for helping in some of the early steps.
Don't like your negatively......