{"id":2250,"date":"2015-11-01T09:28:31","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T09:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.city-academy.com\/news\/?p=2250"},"modified":"2018-05-23T15:38:29","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T14:38:29","slug":"filmmaking-tutor-matt-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.city-academy.com\/news\/filmmaking-tutor-matt-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Our Tutors: Matt Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Introducing Matt Taylor<\/a>, one of our new Film School<\/a> Tutors. Matt talks to us about why he left behind his career designing websites to become a professional filmmaker, working\u00a0with the filmmakers behind the Monty Python films and what to expect on his Filmmaking courses<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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How would you describe your classes?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hopefully inspiring as well as fun. The plan is always to enthuse everyone to go off and make more films.<\/p>\n

What do you like about teaching?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Filmmaking is such a great thing to do at all levels and to give people techniques and encouragement to start their own projects is always satisfying and it reminds me of how I started off.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s your piece of work that you are most proud of?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Can I have 2 films? First my feature film \u2018The Warehouse\u2019 is my proudest piece as it was such a struggle to make on such a low budget, but people enjoy watching it and it\u2019s won a Best Director award. Also my short film \u2018NASA and the Space Pen\u2019 is a personal film of my childhood disguised as a comedy. It screened at 6 International Film Festivals.<\/p>\n

How would you describe the kind of films you make?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Firstly entertaining I hope, but I do try and add a moral message or question into my feature film projects, but most of my short films are simple comedies.<\/p>\n

Where did you learn to make films?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I attended a course called Panico run by the filmmakers behind the Monty Python Films, Bob and Julian Doyle. Julian was also the editor of Terry Gilliam\u2019s Brazil. This was a 6 weekend course covering all aspects feature filmmaking and it was life changing for me as I very soon left my job ( I was designing websites) to begin working in filmmaking full time. The course gave me the enthusiasm and a great network of like-minded friends to work with and this lead to us all making many short films over the next couple of years which is where I really learnt to make films.<\/p>\n

What or who do you admire in the filmmaking<\/a> industry at the moment?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m a big fan of Steven Soderbergh\u2019s work. His prodigious output of quality films in very varied genres and budget scales is extraordinary for a director, but he\u2019s also cinematographer and editor on many of his projects.<\/p>\n

What are you currently working on?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m currently developing two feature film scripts, one a mid-life crisis comedy set in Swindon, the other a thriller about an undercover police operation in Cornwall loosely based on true events. I\u2019m also working with another writer on his script which I hope to direct soon which is a '2 men in a room' thriller which could be made for a small budget.<\/p>\n

Find out more about Matt\u2019s Film School Courses <\/a><\/em>here<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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