Film Stuff
I finally seen The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly the other day and my resolve is final; I am going to make a western(s). Well, due to geographic and other locational problems I obviously won't be making any features, not that I would even attempt to but I like to have options. I want to use my friend Brandi in one of them so bad, I don't even have anything in mind for her, I just want to see what she'd look like holding two guns and wearing a cowboy hat. So basically I'll be applying the Godard and Bresson philosophy of filmmaking. Godard once said that all you need to make a film is a gun and a girl , then the Bresson part comes into play because I'll be using non-actors (most likely). Often times when in public places I'll be constantly scouring for possible people I could use in a film, it's like I'm holding an open audtion in my head. The reason for this is sometimes certain people will catch my eye for whatever reason and I think "how can I use that?" Also whenever I'm out I constantly think of how I would film/sketch/photograph a location or whatever situation I'm in at the moment.
On the screenwriting front I'm doing alright I s'pose, not as prolific as I should be but as long as I do more then Wes Anderson I'll be fine. I checked through a list of most overused cliches in student films and I found I'm not too shabby, I didn't suffer from many of the cliches as much as I feared I would. The only immediately apparent cliche was the "dramatic cigarette" one, but I quickly figured out a way to work it out because I'm tight like that. I guess I'm better off then most amature filmmakers because film isn't the only thing I have to say about, most student filmmakers make films about film. That's fine if your name is Godard but if not, it would do you well to cann(es) the idea. A true auteur is well versed in all the arts and life in general. I'd say I'm pretty well rounded in the arts and well, I'm working on the life part. But going back to the clichedness, I was working on this one script idea, which I won't bore you with the details of. Anyhow, I had the ideas for it that I was working on written with my type writer and the paper was still in the reel and by chance my friend J-ron (yeah, I call him that wanna fight about it?) was over and happened to read them. He also liked them, and I just thought, "what? Are you insane those ideas suck!" Ofcourse he's not exactly the savviest of individuals and doesn't know a lick about film so I'm not so worried. Wait- I just realized I'm afraid of people liking my ideas, that's how much I'm afraid of succsess. Probably something to do with my masochistic urges or something... I don't know. If I really tried I could make it work but I'd just rather abandon the idea altogether. It would be best to write what I know.
On the screenwriting front I'm doing alright I s'pose, not as prolific as I should be but as long as I do more then Wes Anderson I'll be fine. I checked through a list of most overused cliches in student films and I found I'm not too shabby, I didn't suffer from many of the cliches as much as I feared I would. The only immediately apparent cliche was the "dramatic cigarette" one, but I quickly figured out a way to work it out because I'm tight like that. I guess I'm better off then most amature filmmakers because film isn't the only thing I have to say about, most student filmmakers make films about film. That's fine if your name is Godard but if not, it would do you well to cann(es) the idea. A true auteur is well versed in all the arts and life in general. I'd say I'm pretty well rounded in the arts and well, I'm working on the life part. But going back to the clichedness, I was working on this one script idea, which I won't bore you with the details of. Anyhow, I had the ideas for it that I was working on written with my type writer and the paper was still in the reel and by chance my friend J-ron (yeah, I call him that wanna fight about it?) was over and happened to read them. He also liked them, and I just thought, "what? Are you insane those ideas suck!" Ofcourse he's not exactly the savviest of individuals and doesn't know a lick about film so I'm not so worried. Wait- I just realized I'm afraid of people liking my ideas, that's how much I'm afraid of succsess. Probably something to do with my masochistic urges or something... I don't know. If I really tried I could make it work but I'd just rather abandon the idea altogether. It would be best to write what I know.