Go outside

Yesterday, while walking around the town of Karhula (soon to be the locations for my short movie) I noticed that thigs are much more simpler outside. I can sit on my chair, eyes nailed to the computer screen, trying to figure out what the lead characters can do while walking in the streets of Karhula, and I can figure out something, but of course the real and good ideas come from the real world, by looking, listening and feeling. This is a very simple fact, but it is easy to forget. Fortunately I remembered it yesterday, and came up with solutions to few scenes which I didn´t know what to do with them.

Today I spent few hours at the marketplace, watchin people and walking around. It was a bit cold, so it wasn´t so fun, but I filmed something with my videocamera, and I hope I can get the same documentary feel to my fiction short movie. But it might be that we don´t have too much time to just walk around with the crew and actors and just to shoot something. But I´ll try, no matter what they say.

It´s also this that I really want to live in the situation, to shoot what ever comes in mind, but it´s hard if someone in the crew doesn´t understand that. Fiction projects are often carefully planned and therefore they are just fiction, with no touch to the real world. (well this is not true in most of the movies, only in student films maby, and of course they must be carefully planned and plans followed.) I mean that they might end up as very stif with no air to breath in. Someone may consider this to be a succesful outcome.

I have also made carefull plans, but I´m aware about the fact that things won´t work as planned, and I´m more than willing to change the plans. This kind of attidute is almost everytime misinterpreted to not knowing what you want. That is so wrong I can´t even say how wrong it is. I mean, when I live my life, I don´t know what I want or what the result of my actions will be, but I know the direction where I wanna go. I know what I want this short movie to be like, but there are alternate routs to get there. I realize that this kind of thinkin is hard to everyone else making this project, but since this is a very small project, why not make it the hardest way there is? :)

Lately I bought the movie Before sunset, by Richard Linklater, on dvd. I´ve seen it before and liked it alot, but I´ve now watched it three times and I´m so amazed by the way it has been made. The camera follows the characters who are talking non-stop, it seems that it is a documentary, but of course it´s not, camera angle changes, you see these little details what they are doing or thinking, they go on a boat, talking, camera angle changes, and the light hits so perfectly to Celines hair..for example. There are so many amazing details and the use of camera, not to mention the perfect performance from the actors, and it´s all controlled, yet feels totally real. Watch it.

I´m so tired right now...