Be Kind Rewind

Be Kind Rewind was really good this year! Last year, I was in a group with all noobies, so naturally none of us had any idea what we were doing which was how it was supposed to be! This year, having already done it once, we still didn't know what we were doing! Which made it fun and interesting. Not to say we didn't improve at all. Last year, I remember my group was most concerned about just getting everything on film. We didn't have many cuts and we couldn't really hear ourselves. This year, I think we were able to focus a little more on the technical stuff, whether or not our execution of it was all that grand.
I'm always amazed at what we can get done when we know we have to get it done. It makes me think, if we were told we had to make 12 movies in 24 hours, we COULD do it, spending an hour on each one, with time to spare. Realistically, no one would ask us to do that, but it makes me wonder how much more product could come out of us if it was out of necessity.
Art that was never made..
It's strange to think about the art that was made and the art that wasn't made. There are a few things that have stopped people in the past from making art, like Hitler and poverty and I guess even laziness because contrary to popular belief, laziness wasn't invented just for generation Y. It says something about the art that was made. Everything is made with a different purpose, and some things suck and some things are wonderful, but it all has something in common: it was made. Whether it was because they were told they had to get something in or because they were trying to express their emotions about the death of their guinea pig, art that is made is made by someone who had to do it. It makes me wonder about all the art that is in people, that they could make, but that they don't because they don't have to.
Just a thought. Which I will now end with these Simon & Garfunkel lyrics!


I held her close, but she faded in the night, like a poem I meant to write.