Film meetings are awesome.
KeithHandy posted in Filmmaking on November 20th, 2007
Ah, in the midst of all this emotionally roller-coastery last-minute life-or-death job hunting, two hours to put it all aside and experience sanity. It is so great to be talking with film people on a regular basis. Their input and suggestions for my project are helping to make it real — I really am making a film.
Two months ago, I forced myself to speak of it out loud for the first time. I think I sent an email to Mike a few days prior, just to get his feedback on my “pitch”, and then meekly made an announcement at the meeting, to the effect of, “if you read about it and don’t get what I’m talking about, don’t worry about it”. I don’t know what I was afraid of, but I was. I felt like people would think my idea was stupid and then it would all slink back into my head. But about a month later, Mike happily came over to have brainstorming session #1, and then I created and showed my little rotoscope test at the older/smaller group’s meeting. This one weird little test elicited a lot of interest and feedback, and when it came time at tonight’s meeting to do an update, I wasn’t nervous at all.
This is the “Episodes feeling” that I sometimes miss, where if any of us brought a song into the group, it was a given that we would all get right to work on discussing how to play it. It was always very re-affirming, and in an emotional sense, it’s been a challenge to work on music without that validation. (There’s some validation later, but from people who aren’t directly involved, and haven’t “taken ownership” of the song in some way, so it’s not quite the same animal.) That’s the feeling I wanted to bring back.
I could get way more detaily about this, but I need to go eat something before I pass out.
Oh, and by the way, I haven’t shot a single frame of this thing yet. Yet somehow, it’s “alive” now. Know what I’m sayin’?
