“When obstacles arise, your job isn’t to surrender; it’s to adapt.” — Samuel Chambers
Samuel shares how you can adapt when facing obstacles in today’s blog.
What’s a time when you were about to give up on a script or another project, but you kept working on it? How did you adapt? Share about it in the comments below or the blog comments.
www.stage32.com/blog/when-everything-is-against-you-create-anyway-4064
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Since I create no-budget films, ut is unrealistic for me to use money to solve my problems.
Spring 2016. The script for my 2nd TV-movie was written. Then a disaster happened when it was time to start filming. So I used a very unpleasant emergency solution to film it anyway.Spring 2018. The script for my 3rd TV-movie was written. Then a different disaster happened when it was time to start filming. So I used a different but equally unpleasant emergency solution to film it anyway.
Thanks for sharing, Göran Johansson. What emergency solutions did you use?
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I have no idea what has happened with vimeo, but it is now problematical to find my uploaded videos. So a short explanation instead of web links.
In 2014 I filmed my first TV-movie. 104 minutes. In this case I was able to film with actors in the normal way.
In 2016 my second one. 102 minutes. Disaster. So the dialogue was recorded separately. And whenever somebody was in front of my camcorder, that person was wearing a blue morphsuit beneath the clothes. To make it impossible for the audience to see that I had too few actors. Yes, with only one morphsuit there were a few problems filming the scenes with multiple characters, but I solved that.
In 2018 my third one. 103 minutes. A completely different disaster. So I created one doll for each character. Put up my greenscreen and put on the morphsuit. Filmed one doll while moving it with strings and sticks. Combined it with background and dialogue in the computer.
Thanks for sharing the solutions, Göran Johansson. They might help others who run into the same problems.
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Maurice Vaughan When I finished my first script, I was so proud of it and myself! (as we all should be). I got some comments from writer friends and then had a difficult time revising the story. I then stepped away for almost 2 years while working on ideas for other projects to develop. The time away gave me a fresh perspective on the story and dialogue. The story, and I, are in better places now.
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Hi, David Horton. That's great. I think every writer should do that. Go back to old scripts and rewrite them with what they know now. Or if they don't have their old scripts and they remember enough about the stories, they could write new scripts.
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I don't typically give up; I postpone. I always come back. Occasionally I just have to let it breathe a little.
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I'm doing that with some projects, Renae M Richardson. It's great what some time away from a project can be. We figure out problems with the story and characters, get new ideas, and realize things we didn't at first.
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I just took a script that was pre-camera phones, and streaming music. The rewrite was great fun and its in preproduction now. Yee Hah
That's great, Kevin A Kent! Congratulations on deciding to make your script yourself and being in pre-production!