Or a most expensive hobby?
- When you have dedicated more than a third of your life, and have measly three short films than can barely be called work, much less works of art.
- When, where you are in life dictates that you make the smart move and go into survival mode, when everyone around you is thinking of closing shop.
- There is fucking pandemic going on in the world. You just couldn’t pick a better time to want to become a producer ha?
The heart wants what the heart wants.
For years I have been trying to crack the film industry; first approached the craft as a director. I learned filmmaking from what I then considered a prestigious film school. Had an experience that changed my life, opened my world to the universe of film. I realised it’s a vast universe indeed, each of its components requiring a lifetime of dedication and learning to master.
We are all cogs in this machine. Director, albeit the biggest cog with most to gain or most to lose, remains at the center of the project. Everything revolves around him, but a producer is essentially the force that is making the revolution happen. The invisible creators who are responsible for turning a director’s vision into reality.
These are the people with the money.
The realist to the dreamer that is a director. Every director needs one, but every director doesn’t get one. I can’t wait any longer. I always knew I will most probably be shooting my first feature myself, in other words dual weilding the DP-Director sword but looks like I will be producing-editing it as well.
4 Hats, 4 times the power, 4 times the control.
It’s all about control.
In other words, I would be man birthing these babies shortly. Now how many do I get to produce, only time will tell, but I am very happy to announce that work has begun on the next one.
Instead of saying I have zero projects in production, it’s always better to say I have several projects in various stages of development( a line I leaned from Dov Simens), Even though it is equally important, may be even more so , than production, where it all comes together.
Apparently.
But no one talks about it. Usually because they are horror stories which revolve around staring a blank piece of paper. It’s scary, starting with nothing but an idea. To be able to watch that idea turn into a sapling of a concept. Then to watch that concept grow into a tree, which finally yields the fruit of a finished film is a delight in itself and what we live for. It’s in the journey itself, no?This painstaking process of creation is larger than life. It requires great discipline and sacrifice. In return, the artist is blessed with the fruit of creation, his work.
Also, people are easily afraid that the next big idea they have, is “the one” and therefore will get stolen immediately because it’s a masterpiece, obviously. So they never talk about it. And so it remains, in their head, waiting. Sometimes, that’s a good thing. Not all things have the same gestation period and not all things must be made into movies. Some ideas are just, plain old trash and should be treated as such.