Ted and I are bringing back the fun in filmmaking. I like to think that filmmaking is an abbreviation and the F stands for Fun. In fact, I don't really care what the rest stands for.
Today, I had loads of fun. First getting into character, visualizing scenes of Shadows of the Tunnel People ( hence, this little video, where you see me - in all my glory - overacting and having fun with the humming stone.
While doing this, I realized that the whole point of working on this project with Ted, is to not take ourselves so damn serious. Something that we rocked at in the past ( taking ourselves extremely serious ). We used to overthink everything, leading to OCD ( in Ted's case ) and leading to depression in my case.
We did the same in our filmmaking. And that was one of the reasons why we did not finish a couple of pretty cool projects ( The Haunted Woods of Terror, Hidden Humanoids, Los Ojos Rojos ). No matter how many times we told each other ( and ourselves ) to focus on the fun part, we kept falling into our own trap: Overthinking. Making things bigger and more complicated than they were and so on and so forth.
We are different people now. We leveled up. We are doing good. We are having fun in real life. We really feel like collaborating. And, instead of wanting to make something huge, to impress an audience, win an Academy award, make it on the festival circuit, this time, we aim to have fun and share the process through which oozes the fun that we are having. We will share it with whatever audience happens to stumble upon it. You can be one of the people having fun along with us...
The main thing is, that we are enjoying the process and - as long as that is the case - we will continue creating and sharing. It won't no longer be about sharing the struggle, it's all about the opposite, the ease.
Oh, and before I forget, expect a cool story.
Ted and I are storytellers after all and while you shouldn't expect a high quality production on all fronts, I can assure you that our story will be extremely unique.
What about you? Are you having fun in your life?
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