Its a difficult life

I would like to take this moment to say that although I have not blogged much this week, i do apologise.


As it turns out it is ok to have a great idea. However having the equipment, time and determination to get it done is the hard part.


I like to think of myself as someone with an overactive imagination, which as a fledgling writer should set me in good stead, however whilst I can write down my idea and formulate them into a story that I can then devise into a script, which could then become a shooting script and lead to storyboards, funding and eventually filming, editing and presenting to the world, I lack a valuable commodity - Time.


Whilst also working 40 hours a week, trying to fit any of the above steps in is getting increasingly harder. So at press the most creative proactive activity I have done in the last week is to save money towards my equipment. It isn't an impressive feat and I do not deserve any kind of applause for doing so.


This little gripe about time brings me neatly onto Christopher Nolan - a man whom I admire. This man has worked his fingers off in the film biz for the last x ammount of years and rarely fails to bring something visionary. I wonder if he ever jobbed along in a job he found meaningless whilst trying to get his break, a quick 'Google Search' has revealed that he was making films at the age of 7 with his fathers 'Super 8' camera.


This simple search means that at the age of 26, I have got a hell of a lot of catching up to do.


And so without further ado I now present to you fine readers (if anyone is reading at all) my gameplan:


"It is important to note that these steps do not come in chronological order, it is just a list of what I see that I need to do. Some of these steps will even overlap into others."

1. Write short film scripts. (it is great that I am formulating feature films in my mind and writing the ideas down but I need to get back into my University ideal and make shorts first, somewhere between 5 and 10 minutes in length each).
2. Save enough money to afford to live as well as buy myself A) Sony NEX-VG10E B) A Tripod C) An SD Card with lots of memory D) A Laptop powerful enough to run Video Editing software E) A Clapper Board etc etc etc
3. Make short videos, upload to social networks and video network sites I.E. Youtube, Radar Music Videos etc
4. Bid for music video commissions via Radar Music Videos.
5. Write feature scripts, edit them and then edit them again.
6. Keep doing it and pray that someone sat in a seat of unthinkable power will give me a ring and ask me kindly to direct their film.
7. Keep doing it until it doesn't feel much like fun anymore or until the moment when the life in me ceases to be.

So there you have it, seven steps to my ever lasting happiness.

Now all I need to do is to stop procrastinating and make it happen.

Bear