We did the interview today. It took longer then I thought it would. Most of the time we were trying to figure out lighting. Ahh light, so important! We used what we learned for the stac live commercials, rule of thirds, different angles, cool stuff like that. I can't wait to edit it. As we were filming it I was editing it in my head. Then we practiced what we've been working on. Gregg is going to leave us with the beginning to the middle and the end. That way if we don't have time to finish it with him, we have the basic framework done and can finish it on our own.
I've been thinking about my script. I shouldn't be. Every time I think about how things are going to go when I write, it turns into crap. I try to force it in a direction it does not want to go. It just doesn't sound natural. This happened to me when I wrote for the Second Quarter Project. Especially the forest essay thing. I had originally written about Metropolis, Mattise and The Prisoner as if it were a response for an eighth grade english class. I kept it safe and tried to force it into something creative. It was crap. So, at the last minute, after having written an entire essay, I threw it out. I went with my gut and just started writing. I ended up writing a weird little drugged dream. I didn't know if it was any good, but I honestly didn't care. It's a scary thing to do.
You know, it is an act of bravery to turn away from what you know - 8th grade essays, that structure, thinking things out, and to embark on something new and unknown. This is the crux of the adventure, or everything we've been getting from Joe Campbell.
ReplyDeleteNow, the thinking of how it is going to go, this is the same problem that screws us up in an improv, isn't it? When you think, when you plan the script of the improv, it falls apart, just like a story or a written script fall apart when you try to think it, rather than "intuit" it. You know the feeling of when an improv is right, and things just fall out of your mouth and they are perfect, and your body moves in a new way, and it is funny and absolutely right? You must also try to write like this. All creativity, if it is true, feels the same. This is why I always say all of the arts are the same. The space you enter - the space within you that you enter - is the same, it is only the product that comes out that is different - a painting vs. an improv, a script vs. a poem.
You're a still pond. Inspiration is a rock tossed into it, the ripples caused by the splash radiate out, but other people only get to see what the ripples do to the shoreline - the patterns left on the beach if the ripples hit a beach. The patterns from the ripples - that is the final product. The pattern stands in for the ripples, it is a reference to the ripples, and to the stone, and to the pond. To use Joe Campbell's phrase, "it is a metaphor."
Does that make sense?