Şansım var mı sizce, denesem mi?

var tabi.denemeye değer.

Kazandım arkadaşlar gidiyorum 21inde.

Efenim öncelikle organizasyondan haberdar olmamı sağlayan ali.ünal kardeşime, motivasyon mektubu beğenmeyen eserdem kardeşime ve tek destekçim mustafa abime teşekkürü borç bilir, hepiciğine birer bira söz veririm. Eser evimi kullanıyor çekim için yarın gerçi ona yok..

Eser gör bak o beğenmedim mektup nelere kadirmiş 🙂

hayırlı uğurlu olsun ba.
başarılarının devamını dilerim.

dönünce birayı unutma.
yalnız birayı bardakla saymıyoruz bildiğin gibi.
🙂

zıpkın gibi bir filmle dönmeni bekliyorum oradan, iyi çalışmalar, kolay gelsin.

Motivasyon mektubunu da paylaşayım (hani bazıları yeterince motive edici değildi demişti (ali ünal ve eser erdem :)), daha sonra katılmak isteyenler için de yardımcı olur belki. Tekrarlanacak etkinlik çünkü. Yalnız Türkçe'ye çeviremeyeceğim, anlayanlar anlamayanlara anlatsın :).

Eylem Caner’s Motivational Letter for the FILMERFORGE educational programmes.
The reason I came to Istanbul was music. The year was 03 and i was quite young, 17. This was period in my life during which I started to buy lots and lots of movie DVDs, and that’s when I started to be more interested in the “Behind the Scenes” bonuses rather than the movies themselves. This led to research (and buying more DVDs), and research led to trial and error. I read everything I could find, joined web forums so I could meet people and collaborate in their projects, went to movie sets, helped and learned as much as I could.
Nothing was too serious yet. I had grown an interest in cinematography, visual effects and editing. But they were still just hobbies. Then came United Nations Development Programme Action for Cooperation and Trust Shooting Reality! Short Film Competition.

The festival, brought Turkish and Greek Cypriots together, all writing scripts about the conflict in Cyprus. The aim was to help the youth of Cyprus to express their feelings about the Cyprus conflict. The chosen 20 scripts (10 scripts from Greek crews and 10 from Turkish crews) were then funded to be shot and to compete with each other. First, the owners of the scripts were given a brief education on movie production during April-May 2007. All the lectures were held in English. During the lectures, all the crews came closer and became friends and when the shooting began, everyone was involved in various projects, helping each other out, both on the Greek and Turkish sides of the island. We got involved in a few of the movies, helped in the re-writes, pre production, shooting etc.

Since our movie was a bit more action packed (hence the name Peace at War) than the others, it involved more complex editing desicions, epic music and even a few cgi scenes. This also gave us the experience of working on cgi shots, how to proceed, plan and shoot cgi scenes, race for deadlines and deal with unexpected errors. During two weeks, from shooting the film to submitting it to the festival, I had had such a rush of adrenaline and pleasure in what we did that I decided this was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. The experience of helping and leading people on set, shooting what is just a line of words and visualising it gave me so much inspiration that all I could do for a while was thinking of my next film (which is yet to come).

Therefore as soon as I returned to Istanbul, I started to get more involved in projects, found an assistant editing job in a small production company, developed my own projects and helped friends with theirs. I also started writing small text tutorials on things I believed I was good at (soon turned into video tutorials). They say that those who can’t do, teach. So while I’m not working on projects, I prepare new tutorials to help people.

Since 2007 I have been trying to make a living out of visual arts, and pursue my dream of making a living by doing the things I love to do. In 2009 I realised that education is also very important in film making, so I decided to get an MA in Cinema at Istanbul Bilgi University. I plan to start my education there in September 2009, which will hopefully help me become better and more educated at my passion.

After the bi-communal experience I had in the UNDP-Act film festival, I felt very motivated about film making, and when I heard of the FILMFORGE festival, I immediately wanted to be part of this extraordinary event. Since I grew up in a divided country, I understand the needs of
multi-national communications. My past experiences have shown me that I am very capable in multi-cultural environments, both in handling and communicating with foreigners in different social environments and also in movie sets where communication is at utter importance. This
event would help me show my skills at an official event, and also be a great reference for a scholarship I need in order to start studying my MA.

All in all, I'm a person in love with visual arts and I love doing anything related to it. These kinds of festivals help me communicate with other people like myself, understand different cultures and gain invaluable experience from such environments. I really want to be a part of this event which will help me take a big leap forward in my way to achieve my goals for the future.

I’m really looking forward to seeing you soon.

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Sevindim Eylem, umarım güzel bir tecrübe olur. Şimdiden kazasız belasız hayırlı yolculuklar, bol bol fotoğrafla dönmen dileğiyle 🙂

Hangi kategoriden başvurdun ?

Kategori derken? Plug-In olana gidiyorum.

çok güzel mektup. kıbrısta iyi ingilizce öğretiyorlar belli ki.

Şimdi yazmazsam kesin laf sokar, ali.ünal virgüllerin yarısını atmama yardım etti, hakikaten çok virgül koyuyorum.

Pardon, Oxford comma imiş onun adı, onu da öğretti Entelali Bey, virgülü kaldır diyemedi.

ulan motivasyon mektubunu beğenmeyen kim!? her şey senin iyiliğin için oğlum 🙂 ben fazla samimi bir dil kullanmışsın demiştim. ve yine hala idda ediyorum ki kötü gir girişin var (malı bilmemne rezmi'den aldık, adana'ya kadar ali sürdü, ankara'da mali mehmet dağıttı tarzı bir giriş) ama demek ki genel anlamda senin gibi iyi bi adamı kaçırmak istememişler.

oolum senden çok sevindim haberin yok.. bok at sen bana hala.. ama hala mutluyum kabul edildiğin için..

Oooooh yeeeeeeeeeeaaaaah!
Süper lan. 🙂

Umarım ben de master'a kabul edilirim. 🙄

Ben giriyordum bu sene yükseğe, Hürcan da giriyormuş, Firar da lisansa başlayacaktı, toz pembe, kamp kuracaktık resmen, sonra ben bir anda sadece 2. dönem açılan bir dersten kaldım ve okulum bir sene uzadı.. Onlar kuracak şimdi :(.

Eser senin hesabını yarın göreceğim ben. Samimi girdik tabii olum anlasınlar hevesimizi.. Anlamışlar da bak. Yarın kutlarız evde votka var :D.

Fırat sen de girme bu sene, beraber gireriz seneye.

Deli misin lan, niye girmeyeyim. 🙂 Sen benim bir altımdan gel. Çırak hesabı. 🙂
Umarım kalmam etmem bir dersten de girerim.
ODTÜ Medya Kültürel Çalışmalar gibi duruyor şimdilik hadi hayırlısı olur inşallah bir aksilik çıkmaz.