Wednesday, 6. February 2008
Decision Week
I finished another fifteen storyboard frames yesterday. I know about the importance of having a storyboard. But to me, that's the most annoying part of preproduction. I've got lots of beautiful pictures in my head how my film could and should be, how the different sets could look like. Then I take a pencil and a sheet of paper and find out that it won't work. This is soo annoying.... But ok: it isn't the worst case to find out early what I have to do in another way. I think that is one reason for storyboarding: getting disappointed as early as possible. Like all things in life it has two sides: I found out what won't work and I had to make decisions how to go on. And these decisions really made the difference to all this frustrating thoughts about "that looks boring... this was made by others earlier..." I had some nice ideas about set design and all that stuff and technical procedures. By drawing the storyboard I made decisions about the storyline, shortened the script a bit and made it more focussed. I went to the art and craft shop today and tomorrow I will try out the new ideas... Fifteen planned frames left to be drawn. I think I'll get up early tomorrow and see if I would have a good start at it...
Today I added some music websites to the link page. The first is soundsnap.com and the other one is mobygratis.com. Soundsnap.com is free database with thousands of free sound effects, loops and samples. Not everything is perfect there but if you do some research you can find very good things there. Moby, the american musician, DJ and producer, offers free music on his website. You're allowed to use for non-commercial projects. It is worth a glance.
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Jessica wrote on Thursday, 7. February 2008 at 10:36:
Yes, Leevi, I agree: re-arrangement is usual human and cultural behavior. But in my weak moments I forget that. I think also the wheel wasn't invented by an idea suddenly but by slowly development...
Being boring.... Hope me'll never be that... ;)
Nils wrote on Friday, 8. February 2008 at 23:43:
<blockquote>I think also the wheel wasn't invented by an idea suddenly but by slowly development...</blockquote>
And at last it was standardised by a committee.

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Leevi wrote on Thursday, 7. February 2008 at 09:39:
"this was made by others earlier"
Don't worry if something has been done before (it all has). Just try to do it your way.
The strength of human is an ability to combine, re-arrange and re-connect already experienced material.
But there's absolutely no excuse for being boring ;)