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Issue #112 – Student Successes
by L. Swift and Jeff McQ
Film Connection student Evan Zentar
Film Mentor Nick Esposito (right)
Evan says learning to shoot from a film perspective has already helped improve his production value, as well, and it even impressed his boss at the combat sports company where he continued to work. “If I look back on it now, I knew nothing compared to what I know now,” says Evan. “I had a basic concept of it, but I didn’t understand shooting in 24p, or 30p, or 60i. I didn’t understand the difference…Just being in Film Connection made me do all these, ‘Oh my God, I can make a low budget TV production look like a high budget TV production if I turn my shutter on and set it to 1/250.’..After I had done this stuff to my cameras and stuff at the office, my boss was like, ‘Holy sh*t, what have you done?’ And it all looked great.”
And that’s what led to Evan’s new gig—the one where he now gets to shoot and edit boxing in Times Square.
Now at the point of completing his apprenticeship, Evan hopes to expand his work in film. A fan of war movies, he says he’s currently working on a script of his own about World War II, and he will be on the set of a new feature film starting next month. He says juggling filming around his new job is a bit of a challenge, but they are giving him the flexibility he needs to make it work. “I just did this whole film thing [with Film Connection], and I’m going to have a full-time job in television,” he remarks. “But they’re still letting me go and do movies and stuff when I want to, which is pretty cool.”
And so, at the ripe young age of 20, Evan is well on his way to a long and rewarding career. Given the choice between four years in film school and going to the Film Connection, he knows he made the right choice for his future.
“I’m not $240,000 in debt because I [went] to NYU,” he says. “I was, like, ‘All right, maybe I’ll make a $10,000 investment, do Film Connection, and see what happens.’…I just saved so much money, and I got to the same exact place faster.”
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