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Who is the youngest Red owner?

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I got my first Red for my son Chris but he wanted a car instead. So I kept it. And or kids at the Tribal School have been shooting with it. The first Native American feature length film we did was shot on the Red One (Camera #20 & #18). The Director was 15 when she wrote it. She was 17 when she shot it on the RED One.

My 15 year old was on b-cam for shooting Paramore (with the help of Alex-2nd AC and Richard Moriarty 1st AC, Noah was on the Technocrane).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A63VwWz1ij0


Paramore Paramore Music Video Here.
 
Believe me--it's totally possible to get access to RED's or other amazing equipment, and get the right connections very early on. I'm not going to say my age, but I will say I consider myself very lucky for how old I am.

If you should ever find yourself working with a young kid, like 15-18, don't treat them like some inferior being. By virtue of them being there, they have worked their butt off or gotten very lucky in one way or another.
 
JosephArthur said:
I got my first Red for my son Chris but he wanted a car instead. So I kept it. And or kids at the Tribal School have been shooting with it. The first Native American feature length film we did was shot on the Red One (Camera #20 & #18). The Director was 15 when she wrote it. She was 17 when she shot it on the RED One.

My 15 year old was on b-cam for shooting Paramore (with the help of Alex-2nd AC and Richard Moriarty 1st AC, Noah was on the Technocrane).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A63VwWz1ij0


Paramore Paramore Music Video Here.
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Lucky kid, my parents would never buy me a car or a Red, I have bought all my gear. I would love to have parents with industry connections. I wish your son luck and its great to see you are putting your support behind him. My parents want me to get a "real job" after college.
 
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Andrew Rieger said:
Lucky kid, my parents would never buy me a car or a Red, I have bought all my gear. I would love to have parents with industry connections. I wish your son luck and its great to see you are putting your support behind him. My parents want me to get a "real job" after college.
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Yeah I told my boy he has to earn everything. So I would tell him he gets $100 dollars a shoot. So he would have to shoot psa, non-profit commercials, music videos, crew or be a part of a larger set. Until he works the car or camera off.

Now its up to larger budgets but i still pay him $100 a shoot. So it helps out some of the native or the independent film makers in the area (of course I pay by boy either way - through softmoney). Its good to earn something while your young. but have something tangible to show for it. (not always, but it helps). And he will help others when they need the help. Its the native way.
 
I was 27 when mine arrived a year and a half ago... 29 now... I was in my fourth year of my degree in Motion Picture Arts, living on student loans, driving a 1985 Mazda Rx-7 that was falling apart faster than I could fix it... Some parents can afford to give their kid a car for graduation, don't see it being to much of a stretch for them to get a camera instead.
 
I was 18 when I got mine, 19 now...

So I doubt I'm the youngest but still around that region haha...
 
Imran Farouk said:
I was 18 when I got mine, 19 now...

So I doubt I'm the youngest but still around that region haha...
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If you don't mind me asking, how did you afford it?
 
Best part of this thread is seeing how many redusers are 20-30
I always figured all the users and avatars were old crabby dudes :lol:
Really did
Cool
Im glad there is a good mix, especially with the scarlet crowd now
I hope to have enough time and money to help young filmmakers
they have a different voice and vision that should be heard and seen
I always wished some money would fall into my lap as a kid and I could
make all the films I was daydreaming about
I would like to be that help to some eager artists....
 
all you youngens out there who have the blessed opportunity of owning a red at a young age, keep in mind, there are many of us that'll say "i wish i had that much money to afford stuff like this at that age" or "i had to work for everything n was never givin it". I dont speak for everyone but i think enough people will agree that we're just jealous:-P Its a great opportunity and just as long as you (the young ones) are taking good advantage of it and that its not just some fancy toy your parents gave you, we wont think you're spoild brats :-P
 
Andrew Rieger said:
If you don't mind me asking, how did you afford it?
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You seem a bit bitter my friend, it may not have came around to you let but the wheel of fortune will hit anyone who works hard in the end, 40k is attainable if you can find a specialty your good at in a niche market (Mine was storage technology & networking) and essentially whore yourself out for a few years, I used to work 18-20 hour days 7 days a week, it killed me but it worked. Lived in a shared apartment on Ramen and put 50k back into my business each year as a minimum. Sold it a few years later for a good sum.
 
George Tsai said:
all you youngens out there who have the blessed opportunity of owning a red at a young age, keep in mind, there are many of us that'll say "i wish i had that much money to afford stuff like this at that age" or "i had to work for everything n was never givin it". I dont speak for everyone but i think enough people will agree that we're just jealous:-P Its a great opportunity and just as long as you (the young ones) are taking good advantage of it and that its not just some fancy toy your parents gave you, we wont think you're spoild brats :-P
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At the end of the day everything is a tool. If your a filmmaker a camera merely lets you do what you do, the camera is not what you do.
 
I worked for an entire year saving what I could to afford at the time what was the best prosumer camera out there the gy-hd100u. I managed to buy it only to find out the many flaws it had and the many issues I would have to overcome to make great looking images. I quickly learned that it was not the short comings of the camera that held me back but my skill. I upgraded far faster than was necessary I had not taken the time to learn the art first and spent many years getting it right (I still haven't). The scarlet promises to be a formidable tool in audio visual production, but that alone is no reason to buy it. I convinced myself for years that my lack of quality in my movies was due to the picture quality, when in reality it had far more to do with my film making abilities.

now I'm not saying don't buy an epic or scarlet, just to think seriously about the purchase. I should have never bought a 7k camera at a young age, I did not deserve it nor did I have the knowledge to properly operate it.

Now I did learn these things overtime, but by the time I did far better cameras were out at much cheaper prices. Honestly I believe red is the best company I have ever seen, but that doesn't mean it isn't a bad decision for certain people to invest in one. You have to be able to make money from it, otherwise you better have lots of cash or no buyers remorse whatsoever.

love red, love the scarlet, but I will by it when I deserve it not a day before....(who am I kidding I'm going to be putting down money as early as I can no matter what my credit balance is)

In conclusion I would like to say that it is far more important to learn the fundamentals of making movies over buying the best camera out there.

love red and all its early adopters, you made this all possible.

(what does this have to do with the youngest R1 owner... nothing, sorry for the not exactly on topic post...seems like all I do)
 
Emyr R. E. Pugh said:
This young Canadian photographer could probably afford a couple of REDs - no sweat:

http://www.joeyl.com/

I think he's only 19...
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Joey's one of my best friends... he doesn't own a RED, but he's used them a lot. This is a self-funded (read: no budget) music video we shot way back in January 2008 on build... 8(?) as a favor for his friend Benjamin, a techno artist from Holland.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMKtEEUTDVw

There's also some BTS stuff here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXHB0g-mW44

I can tell you his success has not been do to his parents or any kind of privilege. He's an incredible marketer with an amazing business sense and knows how to make things work out for himself. Big clients attract even bigger clients, and he has carved out a little niche for himself and is now doing extremely well.
 
Jay Gannon said:
You seem a bit bitter my friend, it may not have came around to you let but the wheel of fortune will hit anyone who works hard in the end, 40k is attainable if you can find a specialty your good at in a niche market (Mine was storage technology & networking) and essentially whore yourself out for a few years, I used to work 18-20 hour days 7 days a week, it killed me but it worked. Lived in a shared apartment on Ramen and put 50k back into my business each year as a minimum. Sold it a few years later for a good sum.
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Not bitter just wondering how an 18 yo manages to drop 40k on a camera. I may be a little envious (just a little). I've been working since I was 16 but as a high school student with a busy course load, there was no way that I could save that much. I got into photography my junior year and instead of going digital, I shopped smart and got used 35mm and medium format gear at swap meets, camera shows and the internet. My brother and I both saved up for an XHA1 a couple of years back and shot some projects but Red has always been a dream tool. Hoping to go Scarlet in a year of two. I'm happy for anyone my age working with cameras like Red, take advantage of the opportunity and leave your mark.
 
Well it's a mixture of things, I guess I was lucky in a way. I'm no trust fund kid, we don't have trust funds where I'm from. Though my family is well off, they weren't keen on the idea of dropping that much down, I've been saving over the years and trying to spend less on different things. Film making is rather more of a hobby of mine, I enjoy watching films so hence why I enjoy seeing or making them work. I saved up quite a bit since I was 15 (bought my FX1 then so that put me back. Also back then I heard of RED or at least remember seeing the site but I had no clue what a pro camera was versus a pro sumer. I was an idiot I will admit that.)
Saving up again for Epic and a Scarlet.

I noticed I was the youngest when Ted came to London...so I'm actually grateful for everything I have... :)
 
I just gave my 10yr old a red and a couple of his friends one to basketball with. This thread is dumb.....who cares who's is the youngest. How bout a thread for who can get the best work done with it. I know peeps who own them and their projects suck. Dumbest thread i have ever seen on this board.

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http://thecoloringroom.com/reddailies.html
 
Should do a competition, RED only, best short, best feature done on RED...

Show case in the Shot on RED area is nice but a competition would be pretty neat, whatever happened to the 72hr ones?
 
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