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You Have Ideas But Don't Know Where to Start
By Raymond Karsten · Published · Last updated
There are too many tools, too many tutorials, and a new model every month. It's reasonable to feel like you have to catch up before you can begin. You don't.
Don't start with the tool
Almost everyone starts by choosing software. It feels like progress and it isn't. The tool is the last decision, not the first, and it'll be a different tool in six months anyway.
Start with one page
One character. One want. One obstacle. One change. Write it badly, on paper, in ten minutes. That page is the beginning of a film. Nothing you generate before it survives — after it come the six steps, in order.
You don't need to learn everything
You need the part that applies to the film you're making right now. Everything else is clutter. Learn it when a project asks for it.
Start where you actually are: a loose idea, not a finished story.
Raymond Karsten
Thirty years in film. Storyboards, commercials, music videos. Story sequences for Netflix. Ten years teaching story development at Høyskolen Kristiania.
Artificial tool. Analog director.