Music Will Save You
Trying to get started again on the now-fabled re-write. This is the point when I feel what David Simon said about writing: “I go into a room and stare at the page until blood comes out of my forehead.”
I still have a lot of care for the characters, and I suppose that that is something. Wait. Of course it is something. I watched Alien vs. Predator for chrissakes. THAT is contempt for your own creation(s). I still love the characters, but I think I might have to leave it as it is, for posterity. And move on to another story. Lemme explain:
The story is what I call a “talkie”, and I don’t think that that is going to be the deal-maker, for me. I mean that it is not going to get me noticed. I think of it like You Can Count on Me, which, like a lot of movies I like, started as a play.
At this point, the couple years I’ve been heading in this direction have taught me to immediately think of two words: independently financed.
Not that I don’t think of doing that. I mean, that is the whole reason I’m doing this: because it can be financed, cheaply; because “Cheap” and “fantastic” are no longer mutually exclusive. Well, they never were, but that’s another story.
I just finished a promotional DVD for the school and it has both drained and rejuvenated me. I guess, at least, I can take the fact that it does look good as a big reminder that this is all possible. I used a three year old camera, no deck, and no after-effects, and it still looks better than a lot of films I’ve seen for other places.
Next up: a video (finally, I swear it) for a song, though I don’t know which. And it’ll be shot in a day or so, just as soon as I can get to Brooklyn. Again, it’s not a “picture” but I will have a script.
The peer review of my video-production class quoted me as saying (while using the SNL-Narnia clip) as saying, “music will save you.” By which I meant that one of the things that entrances in film is that it comes at you in several sensations. With WhiskyRebellion I have the music and catchy-ness. So I can get my practice in keeping the visuals on point.
We’ll see.
