movie making on my own

If you are trying to learn an art form by yourself it’s important to not exist in an inner void.  Not that your journey should be controlled chasing purely after what’s successful, and in the film world success can be translated into “makes mega loads of money”.  There are a lot of stupid things in the world that make money.  The fall of capitolism would get rid of a lot of unnessary movies for sure.  Still, it’s good to have some handle on what’s happening in the world around you. 

Not all people have trouble with this inner void issue where you just live in your happy space and have no idea of the world around you.  I’m somewhat autistic (aspergers) so it’s a specific hurtle for me.  These are some ideas I’ve come up with to help fix this problem. One, read up one what’s hot in what you are trying to learn.  Since this journey of mine is going towards filmmaking, this is pretty easy.  I’m really bad at keeping up with current events so I subscribed to some movie blogs.  This is one that I like http://fusedfilm.com/.  There are hundreds out there.  Find one tailored to your interests or genre.   

The other, easy way to keep yourself from wallowing inwardly is to find and surround yourself with other creative people.  This will help you keep your sanity, if nothing else.  It’s also important to have a group of people that you trust the opinion of so that you can bounce ideas off them.  They in turn bounce ideas off you and through discussion you can come to ideas you wouldn’t have on your own.  Thus, is the efficiency of socializing and the whole idea that two minds are better than one. 

Hopefully you already have friends that share your interests.  Since I didn’t, except for one (and she’s more a writer than filmmaker), I put up a post on craigslist for people interested in starting an art group.  I thought this would be a good way to find other individuals.  I mentioned the idea of collaborating on a film but that it wasn’t necessarily confined to that.  This way you can meet all types of minds.  Music minds, visual minds, writing minds, the list goes on.  The more minds you can come in contact with the better.  So far only one person has responded to my ad and we’ve e-mailed back and forth a bit.  She was an art director for some student films several years ago.  She seems to have more of a handle on the craft than myself.  This is good. 

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