Shew! Well, here goes. The problem with starting something like a blog, is the loaded sense of scope we give the undertaking...it's like writing an overdue letter (does anyone still write letters), or email for the more techno-savvy of us. By "us", I don't necessarily include myself in the above mentioned techno group, I guess the lateness of my joining the "blogosphere" is indicative of that. But I ramble, and I hope this isn't setting the tone of future blogs to come. But yes, about scope...I suppose we to often delay something (like the letter or email) so long that to begin it becomes a near impossibility. Fearing the same would happen with my starting this blog, I've decided simply to do it! Regardless of the banality which may come forth. But there...it is done...so, on with more meaningful posts!
I'm beginning this virtual journal (I suppose that's what it is at a practical level) now, at a fairly eventful time in my life. As a young, independent filmmaker, work, projects, entrepreneurial undertakings are all going exceedingly well! Which is fantastic! So, having just come out of shooting my biggest film to date, and about to enter shooting another possibly (albeit differently) more ambitious project, I decided the timing was ripe for some sort of self reflexive and (hopefully) continual diarised account of the whole process.
Attempting something similar, I started my first official website for the last film "3 Cigarettes", viewable at http://www.threecigarettes.co.za/, and whilst it is great having an authentic, dedicated site, the site seems to lack the immediacy and interactivity of a blog.
So, the latest in the saga is that I have just been awarded a grant by Mnet (our South African pay TV channel for the international readers), to shoot short film. I'm outrageously overjoyed! This really is the realisation of a long and patient dream. The thing with shooting a film is, that it's "shooting-a-film!!!" Probably one of the most ambitious undertakings and individual can, well, undertake... So, the nice thing from a self-reflexive writers POV (point of view in film jargon...forgive me, but this blog may very well, and somewhat appropriately, become littered with "filmspeak"), is that a whole bunch of LIFE happens en route through the filmmaking adventure.
With that, I leave things for now, and faithfully look forward to posting news worthy items of info, as they occur and unfold in the adventure that promises to be my life over the next couple of months!
I'm beginning this virtual journal (I suppose that's what it is at a practical level) now, at a fairly eventful time in my life. As a young, independent filmmaker, work, projects, entrepreneurial undertakings are all going exceedingly well! Which is fantastic! So, having just come out of shooting my biggest film to date, and about to enter shooting another possibly (albeit differently) more ambitious project, I decided the timing was ripe for some sort of self reflexive and (hopefully) continual diarised account of the whole process.
Attempting something similar, I started my first official website for the last film "3 Cigarettes", viewable at http://www.threecigarettes.co.za/, and whilst it is great having an authentic, dedicated site, the site seems to lack the immediacy and interactivity of a blog.
So, the latest in the saga is that I have just been awarded a grant by Mnet (our South African pay TV channel for the international readers), to shoot short film. I'm outrageously overjoyed! This really is the realisation of a long and patient dream. The thing with shooting a film is, that it's "shooting-a-film!!!" Probably one of the most ambitious undertakings and individual can, well, undertake... So, the nice thing from a self-reflexive writers POV (point of view in film jargon...forgive me, but this blog may very well, and somewhat appropriately, become littered with "filmspeak"), is that a whole bunch of LIFE happens en route through the filmmaking adventure.
With that, I leave things for now, and faithfully look forward to posting news worthy items of info, as they occur and unfold in the adventure that promises to be my life over the next couple of months!
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