to night it stays in my eye the usual panel of a fistful of popcorn we have three young men from princeton high school who are involved with film activities there and it's a real pleasure to have them with me we have  so it started two years ago it's kind of interesting story was actually founded by a group of soft morris who had to do an english project and from there it actually branched out into a larger club that just included afterschool activities and other stuff  currently we have a membership of about ten to twenty people and what we do we we obviously we make films occasionally will like look at films to see what they've done well or not so well how we can improve  of the foreground is in focus but everything else is really blurry in the background but really you can use almost anything the one thing is resolution that is like the biggest difference so as long as it is like recording it twenty four frames per second p then everything else about the specs of the camera is well function and you can make a perfectly good film with or without it that's not to say that like again the lens absolutely helps it gives it perhaps a more professional feel to it but there you can definitely do without it and in terms of editing i mean there are lots of good editing programs out there and we use like both like the final cut pro and the  makes davinci resolve and it's actually a relatively high like for free for free editing software it's on the level is certainly very near the level of something like premier a final cut pro yeah and also me personally i final cut pro for me is a little bit too fluid like you don't have as much control over where you cut so usually shy away from final cut but it's still a perfectly usable that much harder to to get above each other so it makes all of them not much better but just very nice so adam tell me what what kind of film courses are offered prince and how you actually know a little better about this i know there's film appreciation right there so kind of like a feature film about the environment and it was great ok how about you average how did you get interested in film and what are your favorite type just watching movies i guess when i was you know so i was in china for a number of years and i guess it wasn't all that much to do with it we can watch them either at night or on the weekends and i was aware that i was and to the medium and how much goes into making these products that we do that if you don't really focus on that you don't really realize that there are so definitely watching the movies helps questions can relate to one of my favorite directors is peter jackson and that's i mean so that's part of how i got like really interested in film was watching like all the behind the scenes for lord of the rings because the the amount of effort and the love that everybody on that project had to defend home made it i think what it is like everyone worked their absolute hardest they all did like an amazing job and seeing that was like really like very motivational but i mean when i i mean in like i was six or seven really i was very young when like me my brother my sister we just like picked up a camera and we just like start filming a bunch of thing us and putting them together so i've been doing that like we've been doing it for a very long time we've always gotten a lot better in the past few years but yeah i mean it kind of a lot of my life i just just got out and just shot things shoot like effects demos but then i actually like kind of got good at writing so i was able to write a lot better screenplays but yeah i definitely intend to go into the film industry somewhere sort of analyze the relationships between people and write and say on the human experience i guess the question really is not whether or not to go into film or not but whether or not to go ok for me the answer is definitely yes because this project is part of my college so what do you think that they're with that coming down of the expanse of say video digital cinema rather than films and it's opened a lot of doors and then again it seems like most of the films that make money are big blockbusters from enormous budget so it's that it works both ways what do you think ok so my i mean for me personally i am more like those like indie filmmakers because i  toll for like director for the writer and also for like for like the technician or whatever to show himself to experience he was like oh idea he just like his view of the world and i think like for the industry today getting doing being like known for the wrong reason those sort of because those people are not going to be around in the next five years they're perhaps like a few of those people who will be around because they were able to perhaps use that to start a springboard them on to something else but for the most part it's not a good long term game play and hope never made it yet but i mean certainly like with the access to like a good film equipment relatively cheaply or just accessible because like the new i phone's camera even has a bit of depth the feel like i was talking about and that's a fifteen hundred dollar piece of equipment versus i guess i mean it  is more expensive and obviously it's a phone as well but it's like one of the seven hundred i think yeah so i mean there's a huge difference and it's a perfectly acceptable camera you could shoot a movie with a new i phone camera as long as you go to berkeley nobody goes shooting can lots lots of people can make films that look and like feel very good and professional the one thing is that with that many more people producing things then the demand for them sort of goes down and they so i don't know what i'm going to people i don't think the atmosphere the cinema experience will die out because yeah there's still life people go with their friends and it's a it becomes more of a social thing than just like going to watch the movie and and like you said  be they want new things but new not necessary in terms of like the way you view it of course that's like obviously one way to do new but like just new in terms of like the style because like they've recently remade ben hur i believe for the fourth time since i mean the audience like i don't there is no audience for the remake there's already a perfectly good one out and and it's it's a reboot or something that like and even benhur has a very place specific thing at scott i mean it's has a whole thing like founding christianity sort of and like it's a very it's a very different kind of film that's in a way it's a little bit dated but like remaking it it's not adding anything new and it's sort of an antiquated like story so it's i'm going to appeal to as many people so there's like that sort of thing kind of is one of those things that clutters the like the amount of movies out there and so then like you look at that and you see and it sort of bleeds into the rest of the industry as a whole when it's it's sort of an unfair presentation but because it is a blockbuster they have the money to like sort of put it out there and so you see this whereas you don't see the other films like the indie films like the like experimental kinds you don't see those as much just because they can't get it out there as well