 Hey, YouTube, it's me, Donda Monsonni from Dumbest of All Worlds here to tell you about the top 10 mistakes You're making when filming your movie. I see these more and more nowadays from both amateur and professional filmmakers If you do them, it might ruin your credibility with your audience and endanger your silver screen dreams So pay attention to these mistakes unless you want to destroy your filmmaking career Let's get into it. Mistake number one, not using CGI I know I'm starting with the controversial one But hear me out. The quality of movies has always been going up throughout time. Why is that more CGI? Some people don't like CGI, but nowadays CGI is better than ever and even superior to real footage Actors can make mistakes and sometimes they just look weird, but 3D characters are perfect Listen, you can plan your shot, your lighting, your composition, all you want in real life But a computer is just gonna There you go. Leaving CGI out of your movie is a big mistake and the more you have of it, the better your movie will be Personally, I've never even seen a movie that's come out before 2012. I mean, they're frankly not worth watching The CGI is often either bad or not even there. Mistake number two, not killing the bad guy Let me be absolutely clear. In every movie, the bad guy has to die. A movie without death is a movie without life People sometimes make cool bad guys and that's all right as long as you kill them If you don't kill the bad guy, you're sending your audience a message that if they become bad guys, they won't die And that is socially irresponsible. I have walked out in the middle of movies where I didn't think the bad guy was gonna die Not only is it boring, it's morally confusing Mistake number three, slow pacing. It's easy. Show me the gun, show me the bad guy, kill the bad guy Ideally, you should be doing this in the first 10 minutes of your movie. Biggest mistake I see amateur filmmakers make is 20 minutes in. I check my watch and no gun on the screen I hear the Godfather has a gun in the first shot, but I wouldn't even know because it came out before 2012 Look at the Sopranos. It has a gun in the title So you know it's gonna be good before you even watch it. Mistake number four, not following the hero's journey The hero's journey was invented by the geniuses in Hollywood and it's the perfect storytelling device It goes a little something like this. You tell me who the good guy is. You tell me who the bad guy is. I Watch the good guy, kill the bad guy It's often called a hero's cycle because a good movie will repeat this every 10 to 20 minutes. More complex Art house movies have what's called a side plot in between steps two and three where the good guy has sex If you do that, that's fine Just make sure you return the plot to me watching the good guy kill the bad guy This is mistake number five if you have a side plot you have to have a sexy I as an audience member need either explicit visual or verbal confirmation that the good guy has sex killing the person The good guy has sex with before the bad guy. That's a rookie mistake if somebody dies They need to be the bad guy. So if you kill somebody else I'm going to think they were the bad guy and leave the movie theater mistake number six not making a sequel So your movie did well Congratulations now I'm gonna need a second one and a third one and ideally a full franchise. Some people don't like franchises They say that continuing a story unnecessarily compromises artistic vision and the themes of the original movie and that franchises are just soulless cash grabs that squash independent creativity in favor of corporate monopolies and that actually it's very dangerous because that impacts the way that we think and express ourselves as a species and I say that if you don't like that there's a sequel It's your fault for liking the first movie artsy people say you should just rewatch it But why would you rewatch a movie when you know the bad guy dies? There's nothing else there plus coming up with a new plot for a sequel is easy You just start back at the beginning of the hero's journey take the hero Find a new bad guy and then kill the new bad Darth Vader died in episode 4 I screamed in the theater because of how happy I was now the sequel comes out They have him back and they don't even kill him in that one now that is compromising artistic integrity Mistake number seven being confusing your movies got to be cut and dry If you make a movie and you leave something up for interpretation you have no balls Just tell me what you mean audiences don't want to be confused or confronted with things They've never heard of if you're gonna have some science thing that nobody understands You got to have some nerd explain it to me in front of a chalkboard They got to show me who the bad guy is and how he's gonna die sometimes though a good surprise is great My favorite twist is from mission impossible because the movie is called mission impossible, but he does it every time That's what we in the industry call a Shyamalan twist mistake number eight not going big go big or go home James Cameron is my favorite director because in that Titanic they had this huge ship and then an avatar They had a whole planet Star Wars 9 with all those ships Blows my mind going to the movies is all about seeing the biggest things you've never seen before What's the biggest thing you can think of put that in the movie mistake number nine not using the right actor The bigger the star the better when I see Tom Cruise on the screen the neurons just fire in my brain I can't even focus that is the ideal movie going experience being in a state of delirium and bliss from simply Recognizing an actor's face the rock is a big guy, and that's why he's the biggest star in the world That brings us to our tenth and final mistake the ultimate pitfall of every modern film From amateur to professional to Steven Spielberg and that mistake is not making my movie I have written a perfect script that ties in all the lessons I've learned as an expert filmmaker and if done well could potentially be the best film of the year I'll give you a little taste It starts in the middle of the desert 20 people are gathered in a circle wearing cloaks the camera pans and shows each of their faces as they take off their hoods the rock Vin Diesel Beyonce Tom Cruise Tom Hanks Keanu Reeves Morgan Freeman Leonardo DiCaprio Will Smith Amy Polar Jackie Chan Adam Sandler or Rihanna. I haven't decided which one yet Michael Jordan Johnny Depp Robert De Niro Sammy Sosa Meryl Streep CGI Tom Cruise Super Mario Steve Jobs and me Don Demons and all the celebrities are giant like 30 feet tall and They all have guns. It's tense at this point. You're wondering like who's the good guy here? the answer But what Mind blown, but then who's the bad guy Jack Nicholson? It's space They get to the moon just absolutely huge and then they find Jack Nicholson. Who's the bad guy? It's the bad guy They open fire hot lead ripping through Jack Nicholson's body during this There's a side plot of CGI Tom Cruise and Sammy Sosa Striking up a hot and heavy love triangle on a nearby Astro. We get visual confirmation and Boom back to the action. They're just blasting the bad guy who's Jack Nicholson full of holes for like five minutes straight It's awesome the dust settles and then Amy Polar makes a little joke confirming the bad guy is dead Another problem solved by the hard work of dedicated public servants And then the movie ends between the star power incredibly tight dialogue and the franchise potential Not making this movie would be an enormous mistake So thank you so much for watching like subscribe hit the bell Leave a comment below with what you think a movie mistake that people are making is and for more filmmaking advice just Come over sometime. I think it'd be kind of fun. I as an audience member deserve deserve