Well...I have a definite short film in mind, which I am going to shoot ASAP. I have tried to do two other short films this year,
P (about the drug P and it's effect on young people) and
Shifty & Shorty (a comedy about two ex cons). However, through lack of actors (being based here in
Whangas they are rare to come by!) it has not happened. The movie I am
definitely going to make will be based on my award winning poem
Aroha...Love (so I will be getting my actors from Aucks and shooting there, this will ensure it is made!). I am going to make it free-style. With just my actors and me on a semi-pro
HDV cam, with a directional mic. I will just use a 'loose' storyboard...nothing else. My idea is to do a freestyle improvisational video...one that is not hindered by a huge crew or a set script. Now I don't know how it is going to come off...it may be really bad, or choice as. But I am going to give it a go. I am going to draw up the storyboard ASAP. Advertise on The Big Idea. Get my actors, shoot in
Aucks, edit it at
Northtec, than put it on You Tube and submit it to the film festivals. Simple as that.
I have also decided that I am not just a film director, but, in actuality, a Creative Artist, a poet, biographer, playwright, actor, scriptwriter, theatre director. I am all of those things as well, so I will also be getting back into them. All this year I have focused primarily on film-making and I have found that I have not been using my creativity and potential in my other creative areas. Of course, I will be continuing in my feature film, but I plan to form a team of others who want to do it with me, rather than slogging away on my own, as I have been doing so far. Of course Top has been helping me, but with her being so far away (windy Welly), she has agreed to be the 1st A.D., allowing me to get someone closer on board as my Production Manager. Still, thanks heaps to Tops for her tautoko (support) so far! To do this I may eventually need to relocate to Auckland!
Thought for the day...This above all, to thine own self be true, than to no other man can you be false.
