{"id":3052,"date":"2014-07-10T10:24:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T16:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/?p=3052"},"modified":"2014-07-10T11:48:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T17:48:31","slug":"focusing-on-what-goes-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/2014\/07\/10\/focusing-on-what-goes-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Focusing On What Goes Right"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Great-quote-from-Wolf-of-Wall-Street\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I feel that this quotation sums up shooting week very well. This post was actually from before this week began.<\/p>\n

I really love having an audience, but I hate getting on stage.<\/p>\n

This whole week we have been preparing and revising our pitches for Rocky Mountain PBS last Wednesday. I should have written last Wednesday, I apologize. I have been re-watching\u00a0The Wolf of Wall Street<\/em> for about two weeks, so with enough of watching Jordan Belfort, I think I gave myself the confidence to walk into my pitch knowing that if I sold the film, PBS would eat it up. I really wanted to put a picture of Lio Dicaprio screaming or something, but it didn’t seem to fit, and the DVD box is a bit inappropriate too. I am not saying I hustled PBS, I am not saying I bribed PBS, but a little performance went a long way. Ultimately, our pitches are not our final films. And, in order to make your film sound interesting, it helps to be a performer. I exaggerated a little bit, I made the film sound better than it ultimately will be, but the pitch should be the most perfect vision of the film. It’s what I hope to capture. It is odd that the film only gets less perfect; if I come close to the pitch, I have made an amazing film. My film is going to focus on a dancer’s recovery from a car accident that exiled her from dance for three years. PBS liked it. I really think it will be an emotional story, and it felt great having an audience affirm my film idea.<\/p>\n

Now I actually have to do it. We all looked over each other’s production schedule, and Clay gave our group almost unanimous feedback; be more emotional in your interview questions. Documentary isn’t journalism. We aren’t “documenting” anything, we are crafting emotion. We met with a CC alum named Daniel Junge, who won an Academy Award for Saving Face,<\/em> an HBO doc exploring acid attacks in Pakistan. He said he thinks it’s actually rather insulting to call a filmmaker a “documentarian” for exactly that reason. It’s art, not reality. So, when we interview our subjects, we aren;t looking for facts. We are, but second to emotion. Instead of saying, “tell me about your car accident,” I give the subject permission to express more emotion when I say, “You’re in your car, and you hit the barrier. You try to overcorrect, but you can’t control the car, and it begins to roll. What was that moment like for you?”<\/p>\n

Angela said it pretty well that we have to forget perfection. Nothing ever happens when I wait to make the perfect choice. I sat on my couch today practically catatonic for an hour thinking about shooting and what might go wrong. It doesn’t help. I just have to get myself behind the camera and it should be okay. And hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I feel that this quotation sums up shooting week very well. This post was actually from before this week began. I really love having an audience, but I hate getting on stage. This whole week we have been preparing and revising our pitches for Rocky Mountain PBS last Wednesday. I should have written last Wednesday, … <\/p>\n

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