Some stills from yesterday's shoot.
A child Fly helps with Continuity:
[365 "self-portrait"] My hand directing bink as the Fly (reflected in the bathroom mirror):
Electra watching to make sure Orestes goes off to kill their mother:
(Looking at it today, this reminds me of East of Eden.)
Yesterday's shoot was so much fun! Filmmaking, so far, reminds me most of all of being a kid and going over to friends' houses to play.
Except that as an adult, I'm constantly aware of what I'm doing wrong--I don't remember this from childhood. Didn't we just make stuff up as we went along and didn't second-guess ourselves? That's how I remember it. I'd like to get back to that.
This morning I looked up the rules for the 48 Hour Film Project because I definitely want to give it a try next summer. (Teams make 4 -7 minute-long films over one weekend. Registration is $135.)
Want to be on my team?
A child Fly helps with Continuity:
[365 "self-portrait"] My hand directing bink as the Fly (reflected in the bathroom mirror):
Electra watching to make sure Orestes goes off to kill their mother:
(Looking at it today, this reminds me of East of Eden.)Yesterday's shoot was so much fun! Filmmaking, so far, reminds me most of all of being a kid and going over to friends' houses to play.
Except that as an adult, I'm constantly aware of what I'm doing wrong--I don't remember this from childhood. Didn't we just make stuff up as we went along and didn't second-guess ourselves? That's how I remember it. I'd like to get back to that.
This morning I looked up the rules for the 48 Hour Film Project because I definitely want to give it a try next summer. (Teams make 4 -7 minute-long films over one weekend. Registration is $135.)
Want to be on my team?
I love these images! They look like they're from a real film, my goodness!
ReplyDeleteI know! I thought the same thing: OMG, I've created movie stills!
ReplyDeleteRemember Cindy Sherman, the photographer who took stills of herself as if she was an actor in B-movies (among other things)?
Electra and Orestes, awesome! I agree with Rudy, the last picture especially is oddly...cinematic. If I didn't know the neighborhood and actors, I would be tempted to discuss the brilliant use of Midwestern landscaping as a stand-in for Ancient Greece...the grain silos as instantly recognizable landmarks, so jarring and yet so strangely harmonious as a Hellenic re-casting...
ReplyDeleteAlso, baby fly is taking her important job so seriously it makes me want to cuddle her and her adorable wings. :D
Grain elevators are the Ionic capitals of the Midwest, yes indeed!
ReplyDeleteI know, isn't Girl Fly great? She stayed with us the whole time, gamely trekking through rail yards and everything.