{"id":6316,"date":"2018-09-04T08:11:51","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T07:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=6316"},"modified":"2018-09-03T22:32:14","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T21:32:14","slug":"making-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/making-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Making movies!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took two months vacation this summer and spent most of the time in glorious idleness \u2013\u00a0swimming in the ocean, catching up on reading, drinking a lot of beer. In August we left for a short trip to Poland for a family reunion on my fathers side, and I got to drive in Poland for the first time \u2013 something I dreaded more than I care to admit.<\/p>\n<p>The last week was spent filming and editing a short video for a competition. I&#8217;m better motivated to solve problems rather than fulfilling my own projects, so I threw myself at it with gusto \u2013\u00a0enlisting the help of Sara to write the script and Emma-Kara and Benjamin for acting. We shot it with no rehearsal in an hour and a half. I&#8217;m happy with how it turned out \u2013\u00a0I&#8217;m especially proud of the sound which was completely done in post \u2013\u00a0but looking at it now I can see a bunch of stuff I&#8217;d like to do better. I guess there&#8217;s a reason why there are so many people on movie sets.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Learning Experience | Filmstro + BAFTA Short Film Competition\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UqlXMcLhJKA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So it appears that I&#8217;m now trying to become an &#8220;indie filmmaker&#8221;. I&#8217;m reading books on acting, writing and producing, watch masterclasses and youtubes of varying quality, and buying a shitload of equipment I&#8217;ll have to justify owning. A 7kg panning video tripod is nice, but do I actually need it? The obvious answer is yes, yes of course I need it because I&#8217;m an indie movie making person now.<\/p>\n<p>As always when I&#8217;m into something, it turns into a <em>slight<\/em> obsession and with that I tend to spend money with abandon.<\/p>\n<p>Right now I&#8217;m reading Syd Fields <em>The definitive guide to screenwriting<\/em> and it&#8217;s interesting to peek behind the curtains of Hollywood movie production. I&#8217;ve stumbled upon many of the terms before \u2013\u00a0character arc, plot points, act I II III \u2013\u00a0but never read much about it. Syd has some practical advice to give in the book, and I&#8217;m definitely watching movies with a more critical eye thanks to it. The book is littered with arbitrary and poor metaphors, and occasionally he contradicts himself from one sentence to the next, but it&#8217;s still a worthwhile read \u2013\u00a0especially to get a glimpse of how big studio scripts (and movies) come into being.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to try my hand at a few more competitions, using them as an external motivator and yardstick. I have no ambitions past entertaining myself and my friends, but it would be fun to see a few projects through to completion, and challenging oneself is always a learning experience \u2013\u00a0I mean, if you never jump into the deep end you won&#8217;t know how tall you are, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took two months vacation this summer and spent most of the time in glorious idleness \u2013\u00a0swimming in the ocean, catching up on reading, drinking a lot of beer. 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