Broadcast yourself!
Posted on March 17, 2010
For me, uploading and sharing videos on the Internet started with Youtube. I was so exciting to be able to show people my work and get feedback from viewers all around the world. I uploaded my first video three yeas ago, and today I have a total upload of 41 videos. Throughout all these years, I have received a huge bunch of e-mails and messages from people that have seen my work and telling me that I have to continue making films. This has motivated me a lot to make more and to write more about my newest projects on the Internet.
It all started with some short and funny videos I made in front of the webcamera three years ago. Then later, I uploaded shorts, trailers, tv-commercials I made and also tests of new video-equipment i bought. I realized that people on Youtube were quite interested in watching test-videos of video equipment, and after some months over 10 000 people had watched one of the test-videos I made with my new camcorder “Canon XH A1″. I got new subscribers every day, and I thought I had to start thinking twice before I uploaded a new video to not disappoint my subscribers.
Some years later I created this homepage, and found out that I would upload tests, trailers and hobby-films on my Youtube channel and more serious work on this site. Today I have more than 580 subscribers on Youtube (that’s maybe not to much, but for me it’s a BIG number), and it’s still growing by five more people every day! It’s very cool to see that people like my work, and want to subscribe. Maybe you are one of them? If so, you can visit my Youtube channel at youtube.com/Andyax and get updated on all of my new videos.
This video under are one of my typical Youtube videos. Here I test my new Canon EOS 550D with my little sister:
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My time has come!
Posted on March 8, 2010
When I meet new people and tell them that I’m a film director, they always ask me what kind of feature films I have made. Unfortunately I have to disappoint them and tell them that I have only made shorts, commercials and series. It’s strange, but it seems like every single person that doesn’t work with film, thinks it’s normal for a film director to make feature films. In most cases, this is wrong. It takes a lot of courage and patience to make a full length feature film, and you need to get the right contacts and enough money for a project like that.
However, I can say for sure, that it’s every film directors (actually also every young boys) dream to make a feature film for the cinema. You get the opportunity to make your own full length film, with a big crew and a big budget and you also get the opportunity to show your film for thousands of people. Most likely your feature film will be released on DVD’s, and what isn’t better then to see your own movie in the shelter of a DVD-store, next to The Lord of the Rings and Avatar II? This may actually happen to me.
A while ago, a producer sent me an e-mail about a feature film she had written a script for. She wasn’t a hundred percent sure that this feature film project would be realized (because of too little money and time), but she thought it may be possible. And to my big surprise, she asked me if I wanted to direct it! First I didn’t believe my own eyes, but then I realized she was serious. She also sent me a treatment for the film, and I read that the story was about girls and horses. “Hehe, that’s not my type of film at all”, I thought to myself. However, this didn’t matter because I was just so privileged to get this opportunity. The genre could be anything, I would still make it! Except porn-film (I guess…)
Today everything is going very well with the project. We are soon finished with the first draft of the script, before sending it to different film funds. We are also doing some auditions to find actors, and we are gathering a crew for the shooting. Soon I’m going to Brønnøysund in the north of Norway to check out some wonderful locations and to find the horses I want to use. I have heard it’s a mess to direct animals, so we will see how that goes. It will be a tough job to direct both horses and girls in my first feature film ever, but if you don’t dare, you don’t win! =)
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. —Robert F. Kennedy
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