You should go to the movies and understand where your place is in its history. You will find in the old films of D.W. Griffith and Eisenstein things that have never been bettered. On Film Music Never use music as a crutch. It is something difficult to do, but if you are using music as a crutch then there is something wrong with the movie. On Metaphors Always remember that everything is a metaphor for something else.
Film is a metaphor.
The exterior world is a metaphor for the interior world of the characters, and that every shot, every stroke that you use, every cut that you make, is a metaphor for human existence.