This week is the 1-year anniversary of some good work that I've been doing. It's a variety show called Gangbusters! where we pack a little theater full of people every Friday night and then send comedians to the stage to have great sets.
“Some really good advice I was given at the start, and that stuck with me, is when you go somewhere, to make a film or do an interview or whatever, don’t get your camera out straightaway. Don’t start filming everything. Take your time, get the lay of the land, meet the people, think about the film. You know, build relationships, know what’s what, and then start filming. Get what you need. Be efficient. And then leave.
Don’t walk in, pull your camera out going “oh look at this shiny thing I’m going to film that! Look at that! I’ll ask you a question! I’ll ask you a question! Oh!” That’s what young inexperienced people do. They film everything, they panic, and then they get back to the office and they’ve got like 18 hours of footage and they don’t know what to do. ”
— Brady Haran, Hello Internet #39: Getting Things Done
Two related facts of my life lately are that I'm doing a lot of After Effects-related work and that I'm listening to a lot more podcasts. I liked this part when I heard it, and I thought to myself that more people could use this advice, and that I should write it down. And so I did.
As crowdfunding videos go, this is a pretty good one. And as filmmakers go, Matthias is a pretty good one too.
He's the cinematographer of the two best feature films I've helped to make: The Selling and Diani & Devine Meet the Apocalypse, as well as an awful lot of commercials I've found myself working on over the past year. I trust him to make a movie worth making. Help him do that on Seed&Spark.
It's possible I also found time to play some Triforce Heroes and Super Mario Maker, and an overwhelming amount of streetpass games while I was transferring footage and prepping the edit.
