. . ( if you lot do ANYTHING today, watch this movie . . . )



Compelling, required & thought expanding watching . . . .

One of the sequences just "answered" a question I'd set myself for a "paid" job. This question had been hanging over me since the shoot - I now think I've a way forward, for a meeting I'm having with the "Client" this week. A lot of work t do, but the initial "dam-breaking"; "chink of light"; view of Nirvana; spark of a solution has been struck!

monoparadox? You really wont know how timely and relevant your post woz . . .

Piles of thanks! ! ! !

Grazie

ps . . it was also very touching, human, sensitive and thoroughly fascinating . . .

Glad you profited from watching it. Lot's of stuff there --- and a few good laughs.

Grazie.... don't keep us wondering... what was the question you had answered!

And... I found the video so compelling... I forced my wife to watch it too... all 49 minutes of it!

"Grazie.... don't keep us wondering... what was the question you had answered!"

I did a shoot of a Carers Day - a day given over to volunteer carers for them to be pampered and looked after and cared for themselves. There was a jazz band, massage, facials, hair and makeup make-overs, flower arranging and masses of information and support for these individuals to obtain more support than they had been getting. Now, juxtaposed against this was also my footage I'd captured of 3 voluntary carers talking heads. Very moving and very challenging for the support services to have to listen to. Now my issues have been around how to bring these immense changes of emotions into a 12 minute "Thank-You" vid which could also double up as a training and information pack for other carers AND support services.

What I got from this "humorous" video on creativity, albeit about one's workspace, was the quite acceptable and thought provoking appeal of some of the images and how "dissimilar" and none apt footage kinda works when treated in the way shown. Sticking the 2 halves of the apple and banana together was a point in case; the gradual taking of a good idea -CSI:Miami - to a "logical" conclusion and becoming hackneyed . . . this I'm going to use to allow the support agencies to see when ideas are getting tired. I'm not here gonna "quote" that item, but I will use the tawdriness of taking an idea and wearing it out. Like wise the apple and banana: pulling together juxtas just may very well pull it off for me.

There is one great quote I've got on camera, just "heard" it for the first time. When asked by my interviewer, "So what have you learnt today?" the support service person said, "They are very special people".

So, Liam, thanks for putting me on the spot, bottom line here is that the movie has given me permission to break OUT of my previous "narrow" thought processes and see this project as yet another step up for me - yeah? I hope this answers your question to me? Or was it something else you wanted to know?

Grazie

Sorry to put you on the "spot"... I just had to know is all.... THANKS for taking the time to fill us all in.

I also found the video to be inspirational...

Pleasure! - ;-) G

49 minutes!!!
Damn!!!

Didn't seem that long.
Still waiting for the the inspiration to catch.

Great tool for inspiration. Is there a way to download this? I would like to share it with some media students.

You can look at the source for the page and it will tell you the URL where the file is stored on their server. Hopefully you can figure it out from there.