01 August 2005

THE AUGUST PROJECT

As some of you know, I'm prone to setting wildly unreasonable goals for myself as a filmmaker. Not just That Darn Feature, but also more modest immodesty, such as the dead-on-arrival Short Films 2005 project (a film every two months for twelve months...I'd like to blame thank the canceer for making that an impossibility).

Now I have a new goal, one I might actually be able to achieve in a timely way: between now and August 31, I will select a song, write and storyboard a music video for it, shoot, and edit. This will be a thoroughly illegal project, and will be used solely for me to practice directing (those of you who have seen Confusions of a Wasted Youth will know that I need such practice). On a practical level, this means that I need to choose a song by midnight on August 4.

The arbitrary rules:
-The song must be from 2005.
-It must be between 180 and 330 seconds long.
-It must not have an extant video.
-It must be a "single" type song, not an "album" type song.
-It must be an "indie" song; this video will obviously not feature the artist, and I can't imagine a mainstream pop video which could be made with that restriction.

I have a few ideas that I won't be sharing, but if anyone has any suggestions, please go ahead and post them to the comments.

As an incentive, or discouragement if you prefer, I will be liveblogging the editing, should I get that far.
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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous8/4/05, 8:25 PM

    "Born on a Train", the Magnetic Fields song as covered by the Arcade Fire, eh?

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  2. Anonymous8/4/05, 8:33 PM

    eric mika would love you more if you made a music video of M83's "car chase terror!" from this year's Before the Dawn Heals Us.

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