Our Monday Morning Post #2
Good morn---wait, this is a late post, so make it Good Afternoon!
Just to correct something, in this vlog I do say "aspiring filmmaker" and not "inspiring filmmaker." I've still got too much to learn and too much humility to go 'round.
Points of interest:
“Children wake up, hold your mistake up.”
Your vLogs always end abruptly. I agree that a script is the most important part of the movie, and if it fails, the movie fails. But I think abandoning two projects consecutively because of a script I’m certain at one point you thought was decent (You wouldn’t have started shooting if you didn’t think it was) is just plain WRONG. Which is where collaboration comes in — You need someone (producer?) to tell you “chill” and that “your work is good” even if you don’t think it is.
Even if it’s not, a finished project is always better than an unfinished one — regardless of how it turns out. You can learn a lot from your mistakes, but more importantly, other people can learn from your mistakes.
Yes yes yes, I absolutely agree! Although, unfinished is quite different from not-any-good. There’s nothing to gain from being self-conscious.
About this particular vlog ending abruptly: I learned the 7D can record a filesize of no more than 4 gigs, and it stopped recording just as I concluded my little rant. I didn’t know until I left the camera with Sean.
But I’m slowly getting the hang of this vlogging thing. The next one will definitely end on a fade out to the clapper slate.
Peter…get a grip. I’ve been following you guys since the very beginning. The more I do, the more you seem to get long winded and the less you create. Fer cryin’ out loud, if you add up all the time you spent second guessing yourself, all the angst, and the time it took you to record this post, you could have finished at least one of those projects. Bad lighting? OK, so it’s bad. At least we’d all have something to look at and comment on. And you’d have two more finished visual stories upon which to build your next. Get over all this second guessing baloney. Just do the work you love. In other words, produce visual stories. Some will be bad, some good, some exceptional. So it is with all artists. Stop with this BS of not finishing something because the lighting is bad or the script was rushed or whatever. Just finish it, learn from it, and move on. You guys have talent. Use it. Love it. Live it. Life is good. That is all.
StanO
I gotta admit you and Al do make a good point. But rest assured I don’t intend to become the next Terrence Malick (though I wouldn’t mind his skill). The summer project was indeed completed as mentioned…I simply didn’t like it; which is fine, because I learned a lot. As for the Halloween skit, well, you got me on that one. But ultimately it was abandoned more out of laziness than self-consciousness, as the Halloween deadline was the real inspiration.
Regarding my thoughts on “second guessing,” I meant it not as doubt but as criticism, a way of reevaluating the material to be more open towards collaboration and outside input; something that I was initially against but now view as self-improvement.
But none of this is to dismiss my knack for deprecation and sarcasm. I appreciate these longer comments, and in a week that might get busier, these certainly count as invaluable outside input.
Y’know, I find that I have to agree with Stan. Personally, I can find much more energy and will to formulate reasons why I didn’t do what I had intended to and to absolve myself from any blame for the results (or lack thereof) than I’ve been able to muster to actually complete a project.
“Knack for deprecation and sarcasm”? You’re good, but you just don’t have the time in grade to be *great*. Yet.
As one of my slightly-better-than-distant friends once said, “Just shut up and shoot the damn thing.”
I’ve been trying to…
Cheers!
Al Bouchard