8 week film project
I've just finished shooting my 8 week film project and it was a great experience. Of course I had to over complicate the matter by over worrying too much about the characters and stuff. Problem is that how much can you show of a character in 5 mins? How much of a message can you put into it? I think I got too bothered or worried after about how our character teacher told us to make 3 dimensional characters and that really got me quite frustrated, working and reworking the story.
But I guess this is the fallacy of an asian upbringing. We're taught to do things as the teachers want it to be. If you don't answer the question, you fail. In film, there is no right or wrong, just whether one likes or does not like the end product. We're told that so many times by our teachers here - most of whom are great teachers - but some push us, like me, into thinking too much about something simple. So I'm crossing my fingers that everything in my shots will turn out alright and that I'll have enough material to get my film done.
What I've always had in my head was that people in europe/america are so creative and less about asians because by nature we're seen as just machines slogging it away in the factories and sweatshops. I don't think that's true anymore, but I think it's because we've been so stuck into the pass/fail set answer system that we're not allowed to think outside of the box. I believe that we need to do that and screw anyone that says that's wrong simply because they can't or don't think about it as viable. Creativity should not be hindered in any way, even if it's passe or if someone's just "borrowing" someone's material as a jumping off point.
I liked the scene in 'Finding Forrester' where Sean Connery's character allowed the kid in the film - I can't remember the actor's name anymore - to use his material to start off. Every story's been told already, it's just how we choose to retell it with our own twist included.
The irony of being in a Film School. There's so much work and assignments that I haven't even had time to actually go to a cinema and see a film - a fact so far that's lamented by all of us. But no matter, I'm sure the chance will come eventually. One film I'm definitely going to see when it's released is the last part of Pirates of the Caribbean if only for Chow Yuen Fatt's character.
Church-wise, I'm been popping down to Hillsongs London which is located next to my school in the center of London and it's been great everytime I've managed to get time off film shoots to attend the services. They have this great projection screen which shows clips and pictures when praise and worship songs are sung and sadly, I sometime find myself trying to figure out how they did some of their shots than on the praise and worship itself. But on the plus side, it's given me lots of great ideas as well to try and implement in some of my films later on,
Now all that's left to do is edit my rushes - ie. shot footage - next week and prepare 3 plot lines/stories for my 16 week project. This'll be my first dialogue piece and I'm hoping everything will fall into place.
But I guess this is the fallacy of an asian upbringing. We're taught to do things as the teachers want it to be. If you don't answer the question, you fail. In film, there is no right or wrong, just whether one likes or does not like the end product. We're told that so many times by our teachers here - most of whom are great teachers - but some push us, like me, into thinking too much about something simple. So I'm crossing my fingers that everything in my shots will turn out alright and that I'll have enough material to get my film done.
What I've always had in my head was that people in europe/america are so creative and less about asians because by nature we're seen as just machines slogging it away in the factories and sweatshops. I don't think that's true anymore, but I think it's because we've been so stuck into the pass/fail set answer system that we're not allowed to think outside of the box. I believe that we need to do that and screw anyone that says that's wrong simply because they can't or don't think about it as viable. Creativity should not be hindered in any way, even if it's passe or if someone's just "borrowing" someone's material as a jumping off point.
I liked the scene in 'Finding Forrester' where Sean Connery's character allowed the kid in the film - I can't remember the actor's name anymore - to use his material to start off. Every story's been told already, it's just how we choose to retell it with our own twist included.
The irony of being in a Film School. There's so much work and assignments that I haven't even had time to actually go to a cinema and see a film - a fact so far that's lamented by all of us. But no matter, I'm sure the chance will come eventually. One film I'm definitely going to see when it's released is the last part of Pirates of the Caribbean if only for Chow Yuen Fatt's character.
Church-wise, I'm been popping down to Hillsongs London which is located next to my school in the center of London and it's been great everytime I've managed to get time off film shoots to attend the services. They have this great projection screen which shows clips and pictures when praise and worship songs are sung and sadly, I sometime find myself trying to figure out how they did some of their shots than on the praise and worship itself. But on the plus side, it's given me lots of great ideas as well to try and implement in some of my films later on,
Now all that's left to do is edit my rushes - ie. shot footage - next week and prepare 3 plot lines/stories for my 16 week project. This'll be my first dialogue piece and I'm hoping everything will fall into place.
Labels: Chow Yuen Fatt, film, Finding Forrester, Pirates of the Caribbean, project, Sean connery
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