You’ve always been a good story teller. You’ve even figured out how to extend your breaks, when the boss comes into the break room; you start into one of your famous stories, and it keeps the audience so rapt, including the boss, that you earn an extra five minutes away from the desk. (And with a job like this, five extra minutes away from the desk is like gold!)
Of course when your BS story is over, it’s back to the grind like every day. Don’t you wish that there was a way to turn your story telling flare into an escape from the rat race? Maybe you should consider the glamorous life of the independent film maker. Yeah, I can hear you now, he’s been smoking a little too much of the stuff hidden behind the water cooler, but hear me out.
The independent film making thought occurred to me the other night when I was watching a copy of Desperado that I had found in the bargain DVD bin a few days ago. Desperado, released in 1995, was the second of Robert Rodriguez’ “Mexico Trilogy”. Not a great film, but a fun one with lots of shoot-em-up and Salma Hayek. (Any film with Salma is worth digging out of the bargain bin.) What makes the film interesting is the story of the first film in the Trilogy, along with Rodriguez’ film making style.
Rodriguez is a pioneer of a style of guerrilla film making now called “Mariachi Style”, in reference to his first film, El Mariachi. The film was shot for an incredibly low budget of just $7000 dollars (money to shoot the film was allegedly raised by participating in medical experiments). The movie went on to make millions, and embodies Rodriguez’ philosophy that “creativity, not money, is used to solve problems.”
Obviously if you are going to use this guerrilla style of film making, you aren’t going to need the technical expertise of some one like Video Production Nashville, but you are gong to need some technical means. You can’t make a movie without a camera can you?
The technology to make great films is getting closer to the common man every day. Great editing and special effects can be done with software that is bundled with home computers. With the right apps, your iPhone is probably a better movie camera than what Orson Welles shot Citizen Kane with.
Who knows, soon there could be an Academy award given for “Best YouTube Upload”.