Getting the urge to make a narrative film. Sure I love shooting documentaries, but every time I look back at what I have shot, ideas for something fictional come to mind. I recently shot a quick little piece with no thought of it being anything, but as I continue looking at it, ideas just keep popping up and things keep building.
It was a really beautiful shot looking down on a gorgeous woman as she looks up at the camera. I'm in the shot, but you can't see my face. There's mystery, beauty, sexiness, love… for being just a quick unedited shot of a beautiful woman below me looking up, its full of emotions.
There's no music, yet, just a simple idea. It's stuck in my head. Over and over it pounds away in my brain, throbbing, waiting to be unleashed.
In my head I keep adding on to it. The story just grows. It keeps getting bigger every time I look at it, or think of it. I wonder how many cinematic works of art started with a single shot that was added to on both ends, or a painting that began as a single drop or splatter of paint, that changes the course of everything?
Not that I think I could be making a work of art or anything, but I do have images in my head of me sticking things in on both ends and making the story grow in excitement. It's like building a puzzle from a single piece in the middle.
All I need is this single piece and I'll massage it, rub it into place and when it's right, I'll get that tingly feeling in the pit of my belly that its ready and then I'll stick it in a slot that will accept action on either end. It all comes together! In editing it, the holes get fill and something beautiful has been made.
Don't you want to make a movie with me?
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