Ready when you are, C.B.
I have decided to write, produce and direct an independent film. The urge to do that harkens back to my first major in college, Cinema and Photography. Back then, it was relatively expensive to make a film. The cost of film stock alone was bad but add in rental of professional cameras, processing, rental of editing equipment, printing, etc. and you got into the big bucks in a hurry. Consequently, you needed some kind of significant financial backing to mount a production that was longer than ten or fifteen minutes.

In the intervening years we have entered the digital era. Now you can buy a good DV camera, a well appointed computer and requisite software and make movies until your blue in the face all for less than the cost of a professional grade 16mm movie camera. This changes the economics of independant film making considerably. Now we can make films with the same ease that we mount community theater productions. The opportunities for self expression are truly amazing.

I'll discuss details of the movie project as they develop. I expect to be in preproduction (writing, planning, casting, scouting locations, etc.) for a year or two. In the mean time, I expect technology to keep getting better and better. Who knows, by the time we finish this project, there may be distribution channels established such that productions of this sort can get as wide a distribution as a Hollywood movie. Naw! What was I thinking? Hollywood would never allow that. They'll lobby and get a law passed against it.

Oh, I almost forgot. Here's my obligatory fun link for today. Enjoy!