From the files of "lazing around vaguely ill watching things on the internet":
One of the reasons I wanted to start this blog thing in the first place was so that I, the independent filmmaker, could share my experiences in the wide world of movie production, and hopefully let others learn from my triumphs and mistakes.
Hasn't panned out so well. Writing screenplays is hard, yo.
That doesn't mean that I can't point out important lessons for all of us, and that we can't all learn from other people's mistakes together. In this case, I have an important lesson for anyone who is thinking about directing music videos:
Do precisely none of the things they did in Toto's "Africa" video.
15 December 2006
4 comments:
Just a few rules so that everybody can have fun: ad hominem attacks on the blogger are fair; ad hominem attacks on other commenters will be deleted. And I will absolutely not stand for anything that is, in my judgment, demeaning, insulting or hateful to any gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or religion. And though I won't insist on keeping politics out, let's think long and hard before we say anything particularly inflammatory.
Also, sorry about the whole "must be a registered user" thing, but I do deeply hate to get spam, and I refuse to take on the totalitarian mantle of moderating comments, and I am much too lazy to try to migrate over to a better comments system than the one that comes pre-loaded with Blogger.
What ever happened to Friday Random 10?
ReplyDeleteTim hates the '80s.
ReplyDeletetim, you cannot hate the 80's when this video exists in the world. i could name others but i think you'll probably hate me enough just from that one.
ReplyDeleteHey now, this is my favorite music video of all time. Don't go getting all "Tim hates the '80s" on me.
ReplyDeleteOkay, so I hate the '80s, but that's a hell of a good video.