According to sources, USC School of Cinematic Arts senior, Katie Nolen, thinks making movies is “super easy”. In her four years of attending one of the world’s most famed and well funded film schools, Katie has seen first hand the many aspects of putting together a feature length movie, and she has called the process insanely simple.
“What’s so hard about film?” the soon to be graduate was overheard asking friends at the outdoor coffee shop in the school’s brick courtyard. “I mean, I’m a writer, producer, editor, actor, and director.”
“Scripts are easy enough. Like one time I wrote a script about this cheerleader being popular and then she wasn’t, but in the end she was again, but it was different. See, easy.” Katie explains while walking to class by USC’s IMAX theater.
For locations to shoot Katie can use any of USC’s buildings, sports centers, museums, labs, or lawns. Katie has at her disposal various sound studios, stages, and even classrooms, which are soundproofed to allow for shooting.
“If I need to cast something I can ask the various people I know in my acting classes. Everyone complains about unions, which I guess is true, because our student union has bad fries.”
A big part of production is the equipment, but Katie has a plan. “I can borrow my professor’s camera, but then I’ll have to shoot on RED, and that’s a pain, because the quality is so high. I guess I could always use my roommate’s DSLR. She says she never needs it back because her Dad is planning to buy her a new one. Or I think I can just check them out of the library.” Katie quickly adds “…along with all the lighting, boom mikes, and lenses.”
“It’s like something Spielberg said to me once when he came in to speak to our class: ‘There is nothing easy about this job.’ But I think that was just in reference to making ‘The Adventures of Tintin’ or something, because, so far, movie making has been a cinch.”
“Of course, if the whole film school doesn’t work out, I’ll just go work for my Dad over at Paramount.”
