Tuesday, 27 October 2009

If this scene doesn't work, the whole movie won't

... which sometimes happens to be a case with things I do in my daily life. If something fails, all the other activities which led to it had no sense whatsoever. At the moment I'm at one of these turning points, when the main scene is at hand and if I screw this one up, I might as well not bother... but no pressure!

I spent yesterday trying to figure out how to fly a steadicam... after about 3 hours I managed to balance it properly so well done! After another 3 hours I even got a few decent shots which wouldn't cause the audience to throw up. So all going well - another 2 weeks of training and I will be ready for the world... I hope the world will be ready for me as well.

I've watched some polish films during the last few weeks, starting with independent cinema at Zawiercie Film Festival, then Wojna Polsko- Ruska and Cafe Rozdroze and just a thought I had after watching it all:
We need seriously smile more, be happy, no matter what. Maybe it is a simple message, but I believe it can change a lot. Most of our modern cinema in Poland is so miserable that you wanna drown yourself in a toilet bowl after watching any of those movies. Even All Secrets is way to depressing for me to watch now. My own child.
So get over it then and keep smiling.
Keep smiling when your money is running out and you haven't been able to get a decent employment for more than a year now.
Keep smiling when your film equipment has been gathering dust on the shelves, because nobody wanted to use it.
Keep smiling when the weather is so shit in October, that you haven't seen the sun for 2 weeks.
Keep smiling because you are working on a comedy, and that is all what matters.

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