Hi, I am new to Stage 32. I am mainly a writer, then producer and had my first attempt at directing. Really enjoyed the project. A kid's short titled, Who Murdered Mr. Wrinkles. I am in post-production, editing the short. I have always enjoyed visual storytelling, been doing it for years.
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Post-production is so much fun watching everything come together! Congrats on your directorial debut. Looking forward to the finished project so you can share it will all of us on Stage 32 :)
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Welcome Neringa, you sound very talented. All the best with your projects. let me know if I can do anything to help you on your journey
Welcome aboard! I'm enjoying the process of working behind the scenes, also.
Although post production is the frosting on the cake... too much sugar is deadly. I think knowing your audience is vital... On the last film I worked on, post production is also the largest chunk of your budget. You can have the best film on the planet, but if you can't get anyone to watch it, ouch! Hanging tough!
Thanks, Duncan, you are very kind... sometimes I think talent is a by-product of just pure persistence and luck. Love to visualize and work hard to figure out how to interpret via strong visualization... one picture , etc...
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Whether plunger or producer... you got to make it happen... :-)
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You're welcome. what you love to do with vision I would like to do with sound. I remember really enjoying building a sonic battle scene for the middle of a song many years ago. getting that mix between following the music and still sounding like a battle and not a rhythm track was cool.
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Yes, to merge the perfect visual with sound is the goal. Even when I write scripts I know the scene works when the dialogue carries a good beat... thanks for sharing...
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The dialogue is so important I agree, without that I guess its mime :) reminiscent about the saying for concerts: without lighting, its just radio
"Visual story-telling": I like your expression. Even as an intellectual, I tend to quote lines in film to make even ideational points because unlike passages I have read, a line in a film (or on a stage) is etched in my memory in more than one of the senses (i.e., hearing, sight). Admittedly, some passages I have read, like "caritas naturalis seu benevolentia universalis" have not found the light of day in cinema :) But even such an academic line is the leitmotif of Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice." The antagonist, who insists on a pound of flesh, is operating on the basis of "public legal justice," which is antithetical to justice as love and benevolence. So contemporary "visual story-telling" is not so far from the ideas otherwise locked up in historical philosophy. That is to say, there is a lot to be said of such story-telling in terms of substantive content that engages the mind.
Thank you, Skip... I have studied films for years. The ones that fail to capture the audience try to involve and translate the story psychologically (i.e. Stephen King's books). Their fear is built inside the reader's mind through words and their personal emotional fears. When reading books like that, sometimes the visual doesn't tap into the reader's personal emotions. Our own minds know what frightens and/or moves us emotionally. Also, I have found that directors have had a hard time visualizing a romantic story, instead of portraying love which is a daily action, they visualize a sex act, which does not portray romance. Visual-storytelling is an art form, whether comedic or dramatic. Visualizing emotion, strengths and weaknesses of characters is a difficult task without the character's thoughts or narration. I am not a fan of narration, but I have seen it used with purpose. Many films fail to capture the audience, I feel, because the story lacks visual universality.
Keep going, Neringa! It'll happen.
Visualized emotion in acting reminds me of Jeremy Iron's role in "Margin Call" (2011) (fyi: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1615147/). In the director's commentary (included in the dvd), Iron's controlled flinking of his chin muscles to show frustration is lauded as an excellent example of self-control in the service of acting.
And a great visual...
Sounds like you are a Jeremy Irons fan :)
Oh, yes... and amongst many other actors, Spencer Tracy. I think it was the movie, Bad Day At Black Rock where in a scene with Robert Ryan, Tracy steals the scene by never looking up at Ryan... such a tiny visual, yet he stole the attention from a younger star... Thanks, Skip for sharing... anytime...
Thanks to you as well. I'll put Bad Day at Black Rock on my to-see list.