Tonight's the second class in this indie filmmaking course I'm taking at my alma mater - I loved my first experience last week and I'm looking forward to tonight's follow-up: sets, props, costumes, and locations.
It's both refreshing and alien to actually be around film people locally (though one really excellent indie film was made around here a few years ago).
I do get the vibe that I'm probably the only one there really into "art" films - the instructor asked for everyone's favorite director and desperate to think of someone I liked that the class might've heard of, I said David Lynch, and he seemed sort of confused - the other students said Nolan and Tarantino. Most people there seem to be after commercial success, and I'm just there to have a chance at getting things made - though I do want to be sustainable, and that means making some money somehow. Still, it's a very supportive atmosphere and I'm very glad to be there, and I hope it leads to some good experiences.
It's a really nice follow-up to reading "Community Media: A Handbook for DIY TV" by @ajroach42 (https://communitymedia.network/product-category/zine/)! That zine said some things I really, really needed to hear - including some things I had already thought myself but hadn't embraced until I saw them in print. (Thanks, Andrew!) I highly recommend it to anyone doing any kind of indie art, not just TV, but it's definitely recommended reading for anyone making #indiefilm.
I also just got "Make Your Own Damn Movie!" by Lloyd Kaufman from the library, that's next on the reading list.
