There are many people who love to watch films or mesmerized by the world of cinema. There are many who are obsessed with their favorite stars & directors. There are some who are like a walking encyclopedia of films and know every smaller detail of a film. There are others, who are film buffs and watch movies every single day. There are many who are good film critic. Do these people have, what it takes to be a filmmaker? The answer is no.
Passion for filmmaking and the needed personality traits are quite rare to find. All those people who we have enlisted above are mainly the consumer of cinema or cinema lovers. They not necessarily posses those rare qualities which makes a filmmaker. Hence they are not born filmmakers. You may love the sport of football but not necessarily you have the natural passion and abilities what it takes to to be football player.
"Passion for filmmaking and the needed personality traits are quite rare to find."
Don't misunderstand me. You may have mental capability to learn any specific skill including the craft of filmmaking. Learning can make you capable of using certain skills & techniques to complete certain job or make movies but here we are talking about if you are born with the natural skill sets which are the key requisite to be a filmmaker.
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Let's figure out what natural traits someone can possess to be considered a born filmmaker. If you find majority of the following traits within you, you are born for the field of cinema.
First trait: A filmmaker is a day dreamer, who very smoothly starts creating imagination in his or her mind. They can pick any situation and start building what if scenarios in their mind. The imagination what they create in their mind start impacting them emotionally and they feel those emotions quite strongly as if those imaginations are real.
Second trait: Filmmakers, they like story telling. They can pick any day to day event which happened in their lives and start narrating it to their family and friends in a more interesting way than it actually happened. They have the curiosity to make people feel those emotions which they felt when that particular event happened to them.
"Filmmakers can pick any day to day event which happened in their lives and can start narrating it to their family and friends in a more interesting way than it actually happened."
Third trait: They have strong point of view on things. At times these point of views are quite different from majority of people around them. Hence they do not want to share these point of views with others to avoid unnecessary confrontations.
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Fourth trait: They not only love movies & the world of cinema rather they are more curious about the process which is behind making these movies. They find themselves glued to videos and content which somewhere talk about how a specific movie has been made.
Fifth trait: The born filmmakers have an inner voice within them which keeps pushing them towards the world of cinema. They have an inner voice which keeps telling them that they are made for the field of filmmaking.
Sixth trait: They have a great interest in capturing & preserving the passing moments in their lives either by clicking photographs, painting it out, capturing those moments through videos, writing a diary or as simple as reminiscing them several times in greater details.
If you find the majority of the above traits within you, you have all the key ingredients to be a filmmaker. Whether you end up being in the field of filmmaking or not it depends on the level of passion you have towards this craft and if you listen to your inner voice and be guided by it.
As I said possessing most of the above trait is not quite common hence if you feel that universe keeps giving you the signal and somehow pushes you towards making films, you are amongst those people who have been chosen to be filmmakers.
Just remember the best time to make films is now.
Author:
Tanveer Ahmed
Director at Creative Bites Academy
Acting & Film School in UAE
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