THOUGHTS AND PATHS
So here we are well into 2007 and I spent most of the month thinking. As I look back, especially considering my year end reviews, there is one thing that keeps jumping out at me.
I can tell you of a certainty that next year will see the creation of my first one-man feature...
That was written in the 2003 year end review. Someting similar has stuck with me in every review since. I think there is flow of things that is not met when something like this is ignored or circumvented. This has for a time been what I relly should have been doing. This is not to say that time since then was wasted. The feature I can make right now today is leagues beyond what would have been done if I started back then. Everything builds and each experience accumulates to lead to a point of change.
Anigen is not finished. It will likely always exist in some form or another. I have at least two long form Anigen videos at different stages of completion. I can't say when I will complete them or get them out yet, but the concept is not going to die. It is an integral part of what I do.
2007 may bring other opportunities for change. Perhaps a major trip overseas, meeting new contacts and strengthening my potential position with any feature project I create. One thing is for sure. If I do travel, or even move, I will, this time have a nice camera with which to document things for this blog.
Right now, and for most of January, I am and have been doing something I have missed for a long time. I am just watching cool movies. Titles like Versus, The Covenant, Alive, Skyhigh (Japanese manga based film), The Protector, Azumi, Death Trance. The Celestine Prophecy, Hollow Man, Snakes on a Plane and more are reinvigorating my passion for the feature format. I remember how much I have wanted to be there. Also seeing trailers for the live action Mushishi (Bug Master), Dororo, Ghengis Khan and Otoko-tachi no Yamato on the Japanese Apple site has reminding of what kind fo things I love. Ideas are flowing and I am writing blurbs and paragraphs here and there.
I see it coming...
I can tell you of a certainty that next year will see the creation of my first one-man feature...
That was written in the 2003 year end review. Someting similar has stuck with me in every review since. I think there is flow of things that is not met when something like this is ignored or circumvented. This has for a time been what I relly should have been doing. This is not to say that time since then was wasted. The feature I can make right now today is leagues beyond what would have been done if I started back then. Everything builds and each experience accumulates to lead to a point of change.
Anigen is not finished. It will likely always exist in some form or another. I have at least two long form Anigen videos at different stages of completion. I can't say when I will complete them or get them out yet, but the concept is not going to die. It is an integral part of what I do.
2007 may bring other opportunities for change. Perhaps a major trip overseas, meeting new contacts and strengthening my potential position with any feature project I create. One thing is for sure. If I do travel, or even move, I will, this time have a nice camera with which to document things for this blog.
Right now, and for most of January, I am and have been doing something I have missed for a long time. I am just watching cool movies. Titles like Versus, The Covenant, Alive, Skyhigh (Japanese manga based film), The Protector, Azumi, Death Trance. The Celestine Prophecy, Hollow Man, Snakes on a Plane and more are reinvigorating my passion for the feature format. I remember how much I have wanted to be there. Also seeing trailers for the live action Mushishi (Bug Master), Dororo, Ghengis Khan and Otoko-tachi no Yamato on the Japanese Apple site has reminding of what kind fo things I love. Ideas are flowing and I am writing blurbs and paragraphs here and there.
I see it coming...
5 Comments:
I hope to see your feature Terrence...and if you need my help I've got your back...I learned a lot making my feature and I will freely share the things I learned with anyone who would like to do the same...
Best Wishes Terrance.
We are all looking forward for your next film.
mdotstrange, you're an inspiration too. There's lot to learn from you if you want to share.
Check out the article in the latest Cinefex, issue108, the interview with Rob Legato where he describes his disillusionment with the studio system and his building of a studio in the basement of his home.
Legato you may remember has won an Oscar and other awards for his work on Titanic, Apollo 13,Harry Potter and other major league films
His thinking on the future of digital film making and particularly how he is developing digital film technology for James Cameron's new movie Avatar is very enlightening and strengthen the ideas you have been championing on making your movies and competing with the so called "big boys"
Great to see you back, Terrence. :)
(BTW, how did your presentation on Anime Studio at the Motion Graphics Los Angeles meeting go?)
M dot: I left a comment over on your blog (total congrats on the your film's completion, by the way); how was Sundance as a whole, if you mind me asking?
Mdotstrange, love your videos on youtube, can't wait to see the entire movie and follow suit. I think you may have opened a few doors. Please hurry up and get your film on DVD! I'm ready to buy it. I may need to bark up your tree from some C4D help.
Terrence can't wait to see what more you turn out, hope it is longer form movie or a series :)
Satyajit, you have the talent to make some good movies as well as the pace and speed at which you do them. Impressive!! I think you need to go ahead and try out that long form story telling. You've proven your ability already. :)
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