michelle's first blog ever
The idea of a blog actually kind of scares me. I haven’t quite put my finger on exactly why yet, but I will face my fears, in the process hopefully understand why. And hope this thing gets easier as time goes on.
So sorry if I’m a little awkward and hard to understand at times. I’m no writer, but I will try and flesh out some thoughts :)
To give you an idea of the backdrop at the minute, I’m sitting in my room in windy Wellington (nz), rain splattering against my window. My flatmates have just been food shopping at pak n save and the sound of rustling of plastic bags and tins stacking are coming from the kitchen. It reminds me that I really need to do a shop cos I’m almost out of food.
But you don’t want to know about that do you?
I wish I could take credit for all of the ideas and components that make up Stray Cinema, but I can’t…just some of them. From the get go, this project has very much been a collaboration with various talented people. I see myself more as a director – of these ideas.
When I directed a film in London (this year’s footage) last year, I had no idea that this project (Stray Cinema) would be the outcome. I thought we would only make the one cut, and my interest at the time, was more in the accessibility of digital media. The idea that someone like lil old inexperienced me could go out and buy a digi cam, and tell a story using the all powerful medium of film.
I’m really looking forward to seeing what other people make of our footage. I don’t know what will happen with the future of this project, or what type of films will be made from our footage. I guess that’s what I like about it; it is an experiment, with no defined outcome, so it will be a continuous learning curve.
I will try and update this daily with what’s going on with the project. I guess it will be good for me to have this record if nothing else, and if a few people are interested in reading that’s super dooper!!! Yeah, I like the idea of this blog thing more and more.
Thanks for reading. And please leave comments, as I’m always looking for feedback, and ways we can grow the project.
See ya
Michelle :)
By michelle, 5 years, 6 months ago