I spent about a week struggling with the idea of having to produce some short films for class. I felt like I had no original ideas, nothing interesting to talk about, and basically became a deer in the headlights; and not even in front of the camera, but behind it. I think Professor Baldwin was right - you really just have to start recording things. Just do it.
I've been carrying my digital camera around with me pretty much everywhere I go and I have noticed that I look at things differently. Everything becomes a nicely composed shot, or an interesting angle or action and I have begun to capture anything that catches my attention. This world we live in really is a beautiful place and people should start looking outside of the conventional box of beauty and get their hands a little dirty to see that the "ugly" can be "pretty" too. It's helped me immensely so far in just coming up with ideas for what I may want to use/do for my projects. One thing I still find a little daunting is the interview process. There are so many instances where I wish I could just magically set my camera up mid-conversation so that no one will notice, and catch the insightful topics and discussions that just naturally occur on a day-to-day basis. I think I may try to do this in the future and see what happens...but for now I have to start coming up with some good topics to talk to people about, including my parents which are 9.5 hours away. I'm still working on the technicalities of that one. Ha.
One of the biggest obstacles in all of this, is that I am a perfectionist. I don't want to fail and I don't want to make something boring. I am feeling much better about this class though and I don't want to make it seem like I am completely in over my head and unable to save myself from drowning because that's not at all the case. I've started to collect random video clips and shoot the ideas that I have even if I have no place for them in the puzzle yet. Hopefully when I can sit back and look at 20 things I shot, it will flick on the light bulb in my mind and I'll be able to compose something cool.
The hardest part of anything for me seems to be the START. But I've started. We'll have to wait and see where it's going.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
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