For our new project, I’m using a lot of tools and skills for the first time in a long while.
I’m using our new camera for the first time. I’m wearing my new suit for the first time.
I’m using five different microphones for the first time. I’m also using our audio recorder for the first time, along with a light kit I bought nearly a decade ago. I’m putting our new teleprompter to use. I’ve added new Edison bulbs and rope lighting to the mix. I’m filming inside an Airstream trailer for the first time.
I’m using my new ergonomic chair. I’m trying out my 360 camera and my gimbal, both for the first time. I’m also using my new iPad.
And perhaps most importantly, I’m using all of my filmmaking skills. skills I haven’t fully activated since I ran my video production company back in New York.
So, what I’m working on now really feels like a threshold project for me. Yes, the project itself is valuable and will help move me forward professionally toward making a living and launching my next body of work. But even more valuable are all these “firsts,” because I’m re-familiarizing myself with a terrain and a skill set that I had set aside for a very long time.
Getting back into the groove of filmmaking feels incredibly empowering and inspiring. It comes naturally to me. It allows me to combine many of my abilities without having to compartmentalize any part of myself. And it’s integrating everything I’ve learned over the past 13 years since I stepped away from filmmaking.
I just wanted to share that.
Part 2:
I have spent the last 13 years creating a new paradigm for filmmaking.
This preparation period of over a decade has been very, very difficult.
Now it’s finally ready.
Making the films is the easy part and that’s what I love to do.
But, I had to invest the study and developmemt time to earn it.
To ensure I was creating from the right place.
