in today's video I'll be providing my review of the full-time filmmaker course
by Parker while back so stay tuned
probably the biggest question for you is if you're thinking on how to become a
filmmaker or videographer or someone who does video work is where do I start
now there's two options for you option one is you go to a film school which is
traditionally expensive you attend physical classes and workshops you get
to play with a lot of equipments second option as you learn by yourself it's
normally the cheapest option it's at your own pace its most likely to be
unstructured and can be time-consuming you could be watching multiple videos of
YouTube for example you know trying to understand how to do this and how to do
that tents are some of the videos you're
watching about 10 to 15 minutes long and he or she could be explaining some
things but it's all full fluff and the only valuable thing that you need from
that video is about two to three minutes long and it's tall it's somewhat towards
the end of the video so hope that sounds familiar
as I was presented with the same options many years ago I didn't consider
filmmaking as full-time career and I was more for hobbies so pretty much it took
the second option and learned everything myself and learning by itself can be
challenging and it's almost always the question of where do I start
and back then YouTube wasn't a big platforms all I did was read books
manuals watched tons of movies and videos figure out how they do that
all of it takes a lot of time and effort to do so nowadays the landscape has
changed now you have the opportunity to choose and go for an online course to
learn filmmaking and making videos and the one that I'm recommending today is
the full-time filmmaker course by Parker wallbang i'm shimming you've seen his ad
campaign otherwise we'll be clicking on this video as this is a review of his
full-time filmmaker course and why this is worth it so when I saw Parker is
full-time filmmaker course back in 2016 I'm like yeah I remember this guy he
used to or he was one of the shoot video shooters of Devin Supertramp here's a
brief example of some Devin Supertramp videos
I'm sure you've seen some of Devin's videos and some of his work been used in
advertisements stock footage on TV and more so yeah I really enjoyed that
particular style filmmaking especially when I watch the Hawaii do Kauai video
you know I got really inspired to try and emulate or
copy or try to head towards that direction of like the filmmaking style
if you know what I mean so that prompted me to find out more
about this course because I for one am personally getting frustrated you know
finding more information about filmmaking learning about particular
styles here and there off youtube so you know I wasted a lot of time doing that I
signed up I enrolled to this full-time filmmaker course because I wanted to
learn more about you know filmmaking particularly his style of filmmaking you
know level up my skills such as glide camming you know shot selections
creative ideas etc and you know what if I'm not gonna get any value from his
course I can always grab a refund I never refunded it because that was the
best decision I've done and it's because Parker is really good at what he does
which is teaching people he breaks down his methods and it really makes it
easier for someone who doesn't understand filmmaking or video to learn
how the technical aspect work for camera color science of the camera shot
selections lens selections and many more now after initially going through the
course I started to pick up on my mistakes learn how to correct it and be
better at it suppose this course also change my
mindset to continue to learn and grow as a video greater majority of this course
is all pros to me and what I really enjoyed about this course is number one
Parker's personality how he teaches his course he's very straightforward no
fluff you know straight to the point make it easier for you to understand how
the camera works how the camera angle works - feel free to check out his
youtube channel because he does put out some tutorial contents in there just to
give you a flavor or taste on how he teaches people his course videos are
almost always have infil tubes and notes and information to supplement it so you
know it's not just videos in their art there's also information background
information that you could read and read into the course is also broken down to
different sections you know such as the camera settings lens selection how to
edit breaks it down to different sections there's a lot of freebies or
goodies you know free transition effects you know of
Premiere Pro you know free downloadable templates he also have some affiliate
discounts on certain products that he partners with that he can offer to you
know his students and you also get to learn about his grade thinking when he's
breaking down you know Seine arch or a shot how he sort of edits that video he
also shares his video editing template so you can see you know what he's
actually done for that particular video what's his done with his timeline what
transitions he uses so just bear in mind that he uses Adobe Premiere Pro although
he has updated his course to add in you know the Final Cut Pro Parker also does
a regular feedback Friday wherein he you know reviews or takes someone's work and
gives them you know pointers what's good and what's bad which is very insightful
and helpful it's probably two major important things that I want to call out
as a pro first one is Parker updates his course regularly what I mean is he's
always adding new topics new product reviews new product comparisons you know
additional in-depth tutorials job shadowing videos I where you get to see
you know a shoulder off the shoulder of him doing what he does best which is
filmmaking definitely I've seen it firsthand because when I first started
my course back in 2016 to now obtain his content group ok the next big Pro is the
full-time filmmaker Facebook community group this group is very active there's
over 8,000 members now and you can definitely network from other
like-minded individuals living in your place in your area or in your country
there's always a full-time filmmaker student with there that you can connect
with plus you also get to see what other people are doing and what they're
sharing with and that will help you or get you inspired or you know learn about
how they do it there it's all about sharing that knowledge around and
sharing that creativity around which makes it a really good community to have
there's a lot of more pros in there that can talked about but those are probably
the main ones I find very very useful now suppose what are the drawbacks or
the cons look there's not really a lot however at Parker
primarily uses cannon so if your our Sony or Panasonic shooter you might be
feeling a little bit out of place a little bit disappointed because some of
the specific menus that he talks about are all about cannon however he's
updated the course to include you know some of the Sony settings and Panasonic
settings do you still have questions about Sony and Panasonic you can always
post that question of the Facebook community group and tell you now 99%
you're gonna get an answer back from someone within the community who is a
Sony user or Panasonic user second one is if you already went to a film school
you may not see or find a lot of value from Parker's course because you already
know what the fundamentals of how to use a camera however if you want to continue
to grow and learn more about new technologies new products that's gonna
come through and also network with a global audience again there's over 8,000
members at the moment then the money is spent of this course is definitely worth
it I suppose the one thing that stops someone from enrolling to an online
course is the price I can tell you now the learnings and the teachings that
you're gonna get from Parker outweighs the price that you're gonna pay
also remember once you bought this course it's a lifetime membership that
means it's forever you know as Parker continues to updates his course you can
get all those new learnings all those new tutorials at no cost at all because
you really paid for it well it's I can't say much about the other filmmaking
course that's out there you know maybe in the future I might enroll and do a
review of the other filmmaking course but at this point if you want a single
source of good quality filmmaking education that doesn't break your budget
a well-spoken educator and a really helpful community with like-minded
individuals definitely sign up to their full time filmmaker course thank you can
you straight long enough to watch my entire video I do have a special
discount code that you can use that will knock off 25 percent off when you sign
up that's really for me today I appreciate your time and I wish you all
the best your filmmaking journey and as always if you enjoyed this video and
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more videos thank you so much for today appreciate you guys dropping by and I'll
see you in the next video bye