Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Production Notes.

What it means to make a film is different for every filmmaker. I am not so sure that I consider myself a filmmaker, as I find it disagreeable. I do not make films.

Everything is out there for the taking. The hardest part is choosing what you want to use. The fact that we chose to make a conceptual piece rather than a narrative was advantageous in certain aspects. It was an easy recovery when we lost our footage because we could stay within the confines of our0 concept without having to tiredly re-shoot what we shot the first day. Unfortunately (or fortunately for some), it might appear our film is particularly elusive and nonsensical. This stems from me not creating it with any particular audience in mind, which I have had trouble with all throughout my high school and college careers.

I feel like our film is quite funny, but it might only be funny to us. I feel like I have recently had trouble with judgement, which is what it comes down to in the world we live in today. For most, it is either – this film was “good” or this film was “bad”. I actively seek out film criticism while most of the rest of the world reads superlative-heavy reviews.

I think that the filming process would be much easier if I could fly – this would make a lot of shots that I would like to see much easier to capture and less dangerous.

I am not very fond of the question about what I would do differently if offered the chance. Filmmaking is a continual process of rethinking and reorganizing for me. I think I might have made our concept a little sturdier, possibly simpler so that the filming would have been more manageable.

I am particularly happy with the way the shot of me walking towards the camera on the 8th floor east balcony came out. I am not quite sure how it happened, but somehow the speed level increased in certain frames and I think it is quite fitting. I am also fond of the framing and think Elizabeth did a first-class job with most of the camerawork.