Two shots from version 2.0 of "The Rescue".
Sunday, 31 August 2008
Saturday, 30 August 2008
It has to go out there...it has to.
Wow. So, having even more distance between me and version 1.0 of “The Rescue” with my rest period (I had to stop everything and try hard to relax and rest, even though I had started to work very hard on The Pilot, it was time to stop completely) I’m at that point of being...well, very frustrated at what happened to me. What did happen to me?...well, the film couldn’t go on to have it's own little life in the real world as a DVD that could be sent to say The BCC Film Network, or to be sold on Amazon. This to me was very frustrating, disillusioning and sad.
But two things happened...
1) I watched Robert Rodriguez’s 10 Minute Film School...and it may sound corny or something here, but it’s a bit of a wake up call to watch that. His message (or at least what I take away from it) is that you must march on and persist regardless of what happens...and you must channel all of your creativity energy into using all the skills that you have, and force yourself to learn new skills. It all sounds remarkably common sense, and it is...but, I tend to go about creating films in a way that is very costly, and I need to get out of that...because there simply isn’t the money there to do it like this.
Rodriguez is basically saying that your options are limited, that you have to accept that your options are limited...and that really, you must have a LOT of positive energy, and march on with it. And, I think I would even say here, that he feels you just get on with making it and then get straight onto the next thing...a kind of don’t look back attitude. I can fully understand that attitude and I think it’s a good one.
The thing is though, that this means, there has to be compromise on your vision, and that it has to be a mighty big one...and I find that extremely hard to do, I love classical music far too much to want to stop using it...where this leaves me I'm not quite sure.
I'm sure Rodriguez would tell me to go round another route that would lead me to the same piece of music being used, and I do believe that other routes are entirely possible.
2) Speaking to a very good friend of mine that I went to college with. He opened my eyes somewhat when I had a conversation with him recently. We talked a lot about how I feel, when you make a film, the first version of that film you've made seems to always be the best version...but that it’s perhaps only because it’s the first one for you to see...you create a second version and if somebody sees that second version for the first time to them, then it’s highly possible that THAT will be they’re favourite.
Multiple versions of films is a hard area for me to get my brain round, yes I have been doing it for years now...but I’m going to have to do it on The Rescue which is something I wasn’t keen on but am now thinking that its important. It's absolutely vital that things move things forward and I get out of this rut of saying to myself "Well that’s that...I have to abandon this and go onto something else"...and work towards opening up a position that’s not hidden.
So what’s going to have to happen is, I’m going to have to go back to working on the original soundtrack I was making for “The Rescue” . This will be sound effects and synthesiser stuff. A onslaught of sound recording of anything I can get my hands on, theres a lot of things round the house that make a good sound so I'm hopeful about it.
The next version of The Rescue will also be in colour, I've done some tests which i'll post up next.
But two things happened...
1) I watched Robert Rodriguez’s 10 Minute Film School...and it may sound corny or something here, but it’s a bit of a wake up call to watch that. His message (or at least what I take away from it) is that you must march on and persist regardless of what happens...and you must channel all of your creativity energy into using all the skills that you have, and force yourself to learn new skills. It all sounds remarkably common sense, and it is...but, I tend to go about creating films in a way that is very costly, and I need to get out of that...because there simply isn’t the money there to do it like this.
Rodriguez is basically saying that your options are limited, that you have to accept that your options are limited...and that really, you must have a LOT of positive energy, and march on with it. And, I think I would even say here, that he feels you just get on with making it and then get straight onto the next thing...a kind of don’t look back attitude. I can fully understand that attitude and I think it’s a good one.
The thing is though, that this means, there has to be compromise on your vision, and that it has to be a mighty big one...and I find that extremely hard to do, I love classical music far too much to want to stop using it...where this leaves me I'm not quite sure.
I'm sure Rodriguez would tell me to go round another route that would lead me to the same piece of music being used, and I do believe that other routes are entirely possible.
2) Speaking to a very good friend of mine that I went to college with. He opened my eyes somewhat when I had a conversation with him recently. We talked a lot about how I feel, when you make a film, the first version of that film you've made seems to always be the best version...but that it’s perhaps only because it’s the first one for you to see...you create a second version and if somebody sees that second version for the first time to them, then it’s highly possible that THAT will be they’re favourite.
Multiple versions of films is a hard area for me to get my brain round, yes I have been doing it for years now...but I’m going to have to do it on The Rescue which is something I wasn’t keen on but am now thinking that its important. It's absolutely vital that things move things forward and I get out of this rut of saying to myself "Well that’s that...I have to abandon this and go onto something else"...and work towards opening up a position that’s not hidden.
So what’s going to have to happen is, I’m going to have to go back to working on the original soundtrack I was making for “The Rescue” . This will be sound effects and synthesiser stuff. A onslaught of sound recording of anything I can get my hands on, theres a lot of things round the house that make a good sound so I'm hopeful about it.
The next version of The Rescue will also be in colour, I've done some tests which i'll post up next.
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