Inevitable Disappointments

With no progress this weekend, I feel ashamed. Trying to figure out the real disappointment that is keeping us from progressing us is actually a problem created by us, the same old problem I guess is faced by everyone. Lack of true team coordination. I learned a lot this week even though we weren't productive at all, a member went for a vacation, second's too busy staying ill most of the days, the third one had all his fingers working some place and ultimately, me, who was trying to figure out I should work alone. 


A lesson I learned here is that without team coordination, either you get busy which at the end either produces something not so appropriate or you end up with nothing but regrets. I just couldn't believe that all of this was hitting me so badly that I couldn't make things up for once. Another thing I learned while I was shooting alone,"Never ever forget to check that you have enough battery power to shoot as much as you can shoot". This idea might seem funny and a bit stupid too, but trust me, when you're out of batteries, all you can do after that is stare faces.


Thirdly, I learned about pre-production as well as post production. Most of the students I work with think it's a crappy idea to waste time on details and are more towards improvisation of things, but, unfortunately, if you stop to make everything up at the time of shooting, you'll probably end up with a bad, unplanned film. Trust me, I regretted the whole week, because after I was done with a practice preliminary task, I faced a block. I had nothing to make the video interesting (like music and sound effects), I was out of ideas on how to make the video itself interesting by those catchy transitions and most importantly, I myself was not satisfied by the video produced. What I would discuss with the team mates the next day, would be about production, because there is no time left to risk on the so called new 'creative and hasty' methods. No wonder this production stuff is boring, but, it is as important as anything in this whole project could be.


Well, leaving depressing experiences aside, I am starting to work on a software known as Fruity Loops a.k.a FL Studio (courtesy). It's basically a music composing software designed for everything you need to make your film look fancy. Special effects from an explosion effect to chimes and music from the old 80s to the new age beats, it has it all. 

This is as complicated as it looks by the way, but anyhow, it is an ideal software for my film as far as sound is considered. I've also noticed students taking sound lightly, or for them sound is not a big issue, but as far as I am concerned, I hate watching a movie which has no relevant sound for instance music which makes the scene more interesting, sounds which make a transition look like a flash and sounds which create that filmy feeling inside me. Sound, in other perspectives is also important in order to determine the genre of the film. It is sound that creates suspense, not the movie, I observed. 

Waiting for these dilemmas to end.