Those screenshots clearly display your skillful eye as a filmmaker! Clean, crisp visuals overall-- and that last one is a powerful perspective with such creative shadow work. Beautiful stuff! I think the conceptual and narrative challenges can make or break a project... writing, acting, editing and continuity... so many moving parts. And today's audiences (and critics) are more discerning and sophisticated than ever, so a successful film is no small feat. I wish you all the best! Let us know when this one is released. ;)
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Thank you! When I was in film school, I learned about a man named Ousman Sambene, who was considered the father of African cinema. At the time, native Africans weren't allowed to learn filmmaking or buy film stock, only European colonists in Africa were. He went all the way to Russia to study, then when he came back to Senegal, his friends would send him whatever leftover materials and ends of reels they had so he could film. I found a lot of inspiration in his story. If he could put together entire movies with just bits and pieces of film, without any trained actors or crew, then I had no excuse not to try my hardest.
I feel that I kind of let go of that feeling when the rushed final cut got rejected from a few festivals. I'm working on the re-edit now and trying to be more patient with it. Once it's finished, I'll start submitting it to festivals again, and if it gets accepted, it'll have an official premiere. I'll share more when it comes to that, and let everyone know where to view it online when it's available.
Please do! I !LUV your maturity and persistence... these qualities will serve you well as a filmmaker. :) And what a wonderful story... I'd never heard of Sambene before! What a talent that can make genuine art out of passion itself (and just a pile of seemingly uninspired bits). I've made a note of him and I'll poke around sometime soon.
I'm happy to share some inspiration! Thank you for sharing the LUV too, I'm checking it out now to see what it's all about.
It's nothing too complicated... just a rewards coin that lets you give it to others (I think you can give 3 per day when you hold at least 10 LUV tokens). You can do the same thing with both !PIZZA and BEER (I don't keep enough staked), but I like that I can use LUV contextually in my engagement with people. I'm a simple lad... it doesn't take much to please me! :P
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Awesome! I didn't know about LUV, it looks like a great way to spread love in the Hive community!
Here's one more !LUV to get you started. :)
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