Filming

Ok let's just get something straight right now. I like Twilight. Embarrassing. But I said it. Moving on. I went to see it yesterday and it was ok. No spoilers. But the entire time, I was in movie mode. This happens frequently when I'm watching tv or movies. You know that scene in The Matrix when Joe Pantoliano explains to Neo that he doesn't see green lines, he sees what they represent, full pictures/video/stories? In case you need a refresher, it's here: 

When I watch media, I think about all the things that went into making that scene. For example when I worked on The Legend of the Lucy Keyes, they needed us to go collect leaves to put on the lawn because it was a fall scene. So a few production assistants and I went into the woods and collected leaves and threw them on a bare lawn. Or when they sent me to buy stamps - it had to be the same exact stamp because they were going to put it on an envelope that gets torn open and they needed to do multiple takes on that scene so they needed multiple ripping. Or the day I spent 8 hours molding 10,000 clam bellies for a scene, outside, using water, in November. Little stuff like that. Or I think about "who is standing one foot to the left of that actor?" because there were times I was that person. Or I think about how many takes of a scene they would have to do depending on how many people are in that scene. The more people, the more reaction shots etc... I wonder what the scene looks like on the script page. And what the director had to fill in.

So the entire time I was watching the movie, I was thinking those things. Plus the entire movie is filmed in snow/winter and while they were in a warehouse for a large part of it, some scenes were filmed outside in the cold and I think about how freaking cold they would've been. 

The more I work on my screen play, the more this stuff crosses my mind as I watch things. One thing I left the theatre feeling was I want to be part of that. I want to be part of the process and specifically, writing something that affects people's emotions, if only for an hour or two. I want to write compelling movies with characters people care about. 

This will come to a shock to many people but not everyone but in 2006, I started making youtube videos. All kinds from acting to singing to vlogs. Over 500 videos. Now I only have 50 public ones but I went back and viewed some of the private ones today. Painful. Like this video. Honestly, if I could do this full time, I would. I love working with video. And I would love to develop my skills but I do NOT like being ON camera. I would much rather direct people to do something. My ultimate goal for the short term would be to create a music video using people I know to a popular song just to give it a different feel than what MTV created. I'd particularly like to do one that involves some kind of conflict so I can practice some video techniques like speeding up and slowing down. 

Anyways, enough rambling. Just was weighing on my mind a lot.