Days 5, 4 & 3
Still working on the rough cut, focusing on story pacing, removing things that take you out of the story.
I'm reflecting a lot on the meaning of craft, the subject of my film,
and being as tired as I am I'm afraid I'm not completing whole
thoughts. I'm gaining spontaneity at the price of coherency when I'm
not reading off a script. You tell me if it's worth it!
About five and a half minutes into the show I'm trying to make a point
about the life craftspeople try to lead and I'm using a sports
competition metaphor and it utterly fails. What I'm trying to say in
this instance is that the measure of success is the process of work and
learning they're engaged in, their life's journey, not a specific
accomplishment or feat.
Trust is a perennial issue for me, and exercising trust in the audience is what I need to do as I continue this edit. Just as Jay Moonah said At Podcaster's Across Borders
this past June, the content is the audience. They create meaning out of
the context of their experiences, in this case, watching this film when
it's done. Learning to trust that people are paying attention and
pulling all the disparate pieces and ideas within the film to create a
whole that leads them to… what, my way of thinking.
No, this film is not like driving cattle through a narrow, fenced in
path (don't know the name of the path, sorry), but I do hope that it
will direct people to think about specific ideas with new
understanding. Providing some understanding, that's sufficient for me.
