...or something, not a very good title this time around, but ya can't win 'em all. Okay so I didn't really try, but at least it's informative, this is indeed a double post, covering 2 whole weeks of class, and maybe more! So, here we go, in chronological order (the best order):
Last Tuesday, Conor Barry came in to tell us all about the wonders of producing! You could tell right off the bat he was good at what he does, he was organised in thought but conversational in tone, he used lots of analogies and stories to aid his presentation, and gave a great many useful tips. I'm glad I was taking notes. He gave us mostly practical information and didn't go on too much about his own films, although I could tell he was excited about them. Among his words of wisdom were some keywords for the producer: Resources, control (of resources) and responsibility (and trusting those in your employ). The other two were more concepts, subjectivity and objectivity, or proving your claims of talent with evidence of experience. Conor also instilled in us the importance of marketing and distribution as the most important thing for a producer to focus on; if the film isn't going to reach an audience, why make it?
Vanessa Gildea gave us a workshop the following Tuesday, dealing with her work as a director and producer. Her talk was less informative, but more motivational and engaging than Conor's, and she takes a more creative approach to production by the looks of it, though I wouldn't say either is more effective. She told us about her role as 'creative producer' and how it's slightly more involved, and allows you to offer your opinion on the film a lot more, which appealed to me quite a bit. She also showed us her 'look book', which was brilliant, I'd almost consider making one just for the fun of it, so I'm sure it'll be a useful thing to add to our arsenal in future, especially if we make feature length films. She gave us a really nice piece of advice about documentary filmmaking too: The subject should set the tone of the film, if the subject is a person, the camera, lighting, soundtrack and overall style should match their personality.
Besides that, Niall and I decided our production company's name should be N&N's productions, and that will steal the M&M's logo... Genius! We've also been working on the script, I've got some character biographies made to help me with this. We've procured some possible actors too, but we're still deciding on our location, it's looking like we'll be making a set somewhere practical for the interiors. Right now it feels like we're on top of things, which is always a good sign, hopefully I'll be in the same mindset for my next post!
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