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Read the sticky, looked through a bunch of youtube videos and such and probably did a stupid thing and got myself a bmpcc 6k, with a Tilta cage, upper-handle, side-handle and some extra batteries, cables and a few other tilta nick-nacks for around a 1000 eurobucks. Looking at getting myself some amaran pano lights with the new handle-batteries, the much lauded sigma 18-35, a decent v-mount battery and probably a second-hand Sachtler ace and shinobi monitor that I am eye-ing up. The goal at the end of it all is to just make some videos, that I have ideas for, learn the process of lighting/filming as I do it, edit and see if all of this is more than just a fantasy and actually brings joy in doing it. That being said, while I am reading the Blain Brown books to learn a bit and already slapped down more money than I probably should have, I feel a bit scared. I’ve been putting this off for maybe 10 years (in my 30s now), thinking that I’ll do it later and obviously it will be awesome, but now I feel time slipping away and am genuinely scared that I can't put it off any longer and at the same time, that it will all be shit (not the ‘everything that you do at first is shit, but you can get better’ type of shit, but rather in actually just fucking lame and shit).
Say someone has a bmpcc 6k, the sigma lens and some pano lights, what would you suggest as the main things to focus on buying, that would give the most bang for your buck in terms of just creative work? I really want to be as independent as I can, so that I would have the most self-sustaining simple load out, that could, if I eventually get better, allow me the most freedom in what and where I could shoot.
