i keep getting spam with the title “alone” which continues to catch my eye. Usual contents describing references to size printed in awE. soMe textual oddities. but it’s effective in pointing to something important to me. These aren’t the pills you’re looking for.
makes it really hard to stay inside and be productive.
It’s been an incredibly eye-opening experience, trying to get the short finished after returning to full-time employment. So many things battle for one’s attention, and it’s easy to slip into an avenue of distraction.
One observation i’ve had is that it took 3 months of writing something i didn’t like, 2 hours of writing something i did like, a few weeks of denying it, then a month of boarding and preparation, a weekend of shooting, a rough cut and then a month to let the dust settle, and now staring at a small mountain of tiny work to do. i can easily understand why more of these aren’t made. it’s a huuuge commitment to something that you have to believe in utterly. Without that level of commitment or belief, the work just collects digital dust in a digital folder.
i’m aiming to have it done by september 1st. It’s titled “alone.”
at a plant showcase in the sunset. learned a new type of plant: bromeliads. any horticulturalists know how pedestrian that is, but the world previously was populated with philodendrans.
Clean and simple communication, easily disseminated to the people.
watching it again today, i'm cutting out a couple of story points because they're unnecessary. that's just annoying. not because of the work that was done shooting those scenes, but that the time could have been spent picking up the other stuff i'm missing.
the double is physically too distinct from the main actor. i'm focusing in on little half-smiles i'm catching the actors doing, and they're taking up the whole frame for me. there's a lot i'm having trouble getting past, just emotionally and mentally. i'm hoping that the end result is worthwhile. i'm going to need some reshoots.
it's time to open the door, though. let a few close friends in, get their opinions. i want to show the actors, but i want another opinion first. they only get one first viewing, and i don't want to disregard that.
i feel like i'm finally hitting a stride with the edit of late. Not as much due to a lack of motivation, because i've been pushing myself on it every chance i get.
It's more getting used to the images that i have and getting over the fear of failure. Perhaps it's the reality of creating, but i can't imagine that all of the images could ever live up to the expectations in a director's head. That opinion may be influenced by the "just do it" mentality for 'alone,' in that there wasn't much time spent on production design and getting used to the "world" we were creating. It was setup and shoot and move on.
Now that i've grown somewhat accustomed to the world, i feel more comfortable living there for a while. It makes it hard to see the cracks in the foundation, but it means i can look at the bigger picture.
is it sad that i only feel comfortable checking facebook in safari, which i never use, while surfing the web in firefox, which is my browser of choice?
I’m missing a two shots that I know of, but I’m hoping some black space there will be believable. the shoot went well, I think in large part to being very lucky with the crew. marty and danny rocked the house. ozan and katrina brought their a games. yep. rocked.
I need to post a piece of philosophy I feel I’ve experienced through this filming.
