Week one - in the books
Finished up my first week at bdfi and have to say i feel exhilarated about the possibilities, anxious to start working & just a bit wary of the sheer volume of information to marshal in order to make these or any project a reality.
Thank goodness for collaboration. the other students here have all been terrific so far, and everyone appears to have a different strength. what’s struck me most about this first week with them is how open & supportive everyone has been; there’s not really any sense of competition, at least not yet. and i, for one, am glad of it.
if there’s been an overarching take home from this first week it’s likely that the process of creating movies is difficult, and having the right, strong people around you makes all the difference. not sure i could ask for a better group of peers, then. we may not agree on artistic choices but everyone has been willing to listen, to explore & experiment.
the beginning stages of our first projects, a two person static-location dialogue, are upon us now. drafts of scenes need to be written and rewritten, locations scouted, crews and casts assembled. even though these will only be three minute films, there’s still a feeling of being poised behind a giant rock on a hill, leaning on it, praying it will soon budge, and then, once it does, that gravity and momentum will keep it rolling. the trick, it seems, from listening to the opening week lectures, will be to make sure we all stay on its proper side, following it down and not the other way around.
