Monday, November 19, 2007
10 Questions
1. How can I make this an actual film with a plot?
2. How can I make this a movie and not a piece of "Art"?
3. What should be the main character, a person or thing/object?
4. Should I have dialog?
5. Should I wait for snow to do my shot/is it necessary to have snow in my movie/story?
6. Should it be at night or during the day?
7. Is there going to be a message behind my shooting?
8. How long should I spend shooting?
9. Should I be in this?
10. Should I take multiple shots of something or focus on getting it in one or a couple?
2. How can I make this a movie and not a piece of "Art"?
3. What should be the main character, a person or thing/object?
4. Should I have dialog?
5. Should I wait for snow to do my shot/is it necessary to have snow in my movie/story?
6. Should it be at night or during the day?
7. Is there going to be a message behind my shooting?
8. How long should I spend shooting?
9. Should I be in this?
10. Should I take multiple shots of something or focus on getting it in one or a couple?
Trek Assign. 4
My favorite experience for this whole debacle would be a future experience. When I'm out of the class, pass or fail. I'll feel free with numerous possibilities ahead of me. A new leash on life. The main reason for this is because this class, along with the entire film program, is not propelling me forward to become a director. I want to make real movies, not movies on shadows and light, movies people will enjoy. Films which will fill theaters. Now I understand that's not at all what you do but it's what I want to do, we just have a clash of opinion. What you like and what I like are two very different things and after this semester I bid you adieu. I will be a director but not down this road, hopefully with my new English major but not this "Artistic" film making path. And if this answer doesn't satisfy for the question, then this can be considered as a realization and that will be my favorite experience throughout all three treks.
And I know I can be an ass at times but I'm very passionate about film making, I just feel mislead by this whole department. I went here to learn how to make movies not "Art." And yes they are one in the same but your word for Art needs to be revised.
If I'm an ass out side of this class or program, then that's just me and not out of spite.
And I know I can be an ass at times but I'm very passionate about film making, I just feel mislead by this whole department. I went here to learn how to make movies not "Art." And yes they are one in the same but your word for Art needs to be revised.
If I'm an ass out side of this class or program, then that's just me and not out of spite.
Trek Assign. 3
3. Describe three surprises or unexpected situations you encountered on your Treks and in the days that followed. The surprise could stem from your expectations that conflicted with "on the ground" realities, cultural or social issues of which you were previously unaware, feelings and reactions that you did not expect to have, appearances and soundings of things you did not expect, good or bad outcomes of "on the spot" decisions you had to make, or the discovery of "deeper" realities in the materials you brought home. (Again, skip anything technology-related!)
My Three Surprises:
1. How can these types of materials stir up any feelings or reactions at all, give you hear and see them everyday and don't notice?!
2. There's deeper realities in these materials?!
3. This is Art?!
My Three Surprises:
1. How can these types of materials stir up any feelings or reactions at all, give you hear and see them everyday and don't notice?!
2. There's deeper realities in these materials?!
3. This is Art?!
Trek Assign. 2
2. Describe, with details, two situations during Trek 01 and/or 02 in which you felt unusually peaceful, at ease, or contemplative.
If this question refers to the situations in which feelings that were invoked while watching our classmate's pieces of "Art," then there was the time when I had to listen to three sound clips, all of which were water doing something, from three individuals who thought they were artists, and the day when I had to watch a wiggling stick and a spinning marry-go-round spliced into each other. Both of which made me contemplative.
After hearing water do everything under the sun recorded "uniquely," I thought to myself, how can anyone of these people actually think their stuff is "Art." They all recorded the same thing, water ooo-aaa. And then I began to contemplate as to why my professors thought each clip had any meaning at all. Most people thought my sound clips were wonderful "Art" clips which brought out emotion and feelings from within, when all I was trying to do was prove this was all nonsense. Mic's in bottles, I mean come on. No artistic eye was put into my recordings but others put it into theirs yet all the sound clips brought out feelings and thoughts. But how could they from mine if I purposely put no effort into my recordings at that. I can understand others but mine? Proving that "Art" is what you say it is... BULLSHIT!
Situation number two happened when I had to watch a stick and a marry-go-round edited together. After watching his clip the artist explained what the meaning behind it was and how it conveyed this and that. I thought to myself, a stick and marry-go-round shows use what? I didn't get that at all, all I got out of it was him trying to be an artist. Well try making something good. The situation made me contemplate why I was even here if I wanted to be a director. The experience upset me.
If this question refers to the situations in which feelings that were invoked while watching our classmate's pieces of "Art," then there was the time when I had to listen to three sound clips, all of which were water doing something, from three individuals who thought they were artists, and the day when I had to watch a wiggling stick and a spinning marry-go-round spliced into each other. Both of which made me contemplative.
After hearing water do everything under the sun recorded "uniquely," I thought to myself, how can anyone of these people actually think their stuff is "Art." They all recorded the same thing, water ooo-aaa. And then I began to contemplate as to why my professors thought each clip had any meaning at all. Most people thought my sound clips were wonderful "Art" clips which brought out emotion and feelings from within, when all I was trying to do was prove this was all nonsense. Mic's in bottles, I mean come on. No artistic eye was put into my recordings but others put it into theirs yet all the sound clips brought out feelings and thoughts. But how could they from mine if I purposely put no effort into my recordings at that. I can understand others but mine? Proving that "Art" is what you say it is... BULLSHIT!
Situation number two happened when I had to watch a stick and a marry-go-round edited together. After watching his clip the artist explained what the meaning behind it was and how it conveyed this and that. I thought to myself, a stick and marry-go-round shows use what? I didn't get that at all, all I got out of it was him trying to be an artist. Well try making something good. The situation made me contemplate why I was even here if I wanted to be a director. The experience upset me.
Trek Assign. 1
Treks 1 and 2 frustrated me to the core. Not from any technical problems occurring during the editing or blogging, or even the ways in which I found my "Art," just the fact that I sold my soul. I don't believe any of this stuff is really art and by doing these treks I feel I'm betraying a part of who I am. I wanted to learn how to make feature films not "Artistic" expressions. You can argue that anything is "Art" but calling one thing by another doesn't change that original thing. It's all BULLSHIT! to me and that's one of the things that ate at me during treks 1 and 2.
Second would be that everyone in this School of Film is a hypocrite. You preach that everyone can create "Art" but then you criticize it for falling short of that word. You say what we do is "Art" but after the grading process it isn't, doesn't meet those standards of "Art." What is "Art" then, what you consider it to be. Now I thought it was suppose to be expression but you guys clearly contradict yourselves. Problem number two for me.
By the way, the reason "Art" is put in quotations is because that word has lost all meaning. What you consider "Art" needs to be revised.
Second would be that everyone in this School of Film is a hypocrite. You preach that everyone can create "Art" but then you criticize it for falling short of that word. You say what we do is "Art" but after the grading process it isn't, doesn't meet those standards of "Art." What is "Art" then, what you consider it to be. Now I thought it was suppose to be expression but you guys clearly contradict yourselves. Problem number two for me.
By the way, the reason "Art" is put in quotations is because that word has lost all meaning. What you consider "Art" needs to be revised.
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