Ryan Koo

Here's Episode One of our new podcast series The First Feature. This is a step-by-step guide on how to get your first feature made, using my new Netflix Original Film Amateur as a case study:

I started working on my first feature ‘AMATEUR’ back in 2011 (the year after I founded No Film School). The film is finally (almost) here.

The following appears as a chapter in the new book Film School: A Practical Guide to an Impractical Decision (out today on paperback from Focal Press).

They don't look all that different from the still cameras of yesteryear, but recent DSLRs from Canon, Nikon and Panasonic do more than shoot still photos: they shoot a bunch of still photos in rapid succession and string them together into fantastic movies. Sure, compact point-and-shoot cameras also have a movie mode these days, but the large sensors inside DSLRs make them capable of producing eye-popping movies for mind-blowingly cheap... provided they're in the right hands. Here are ten sets of the right hands.