wow i think reading this instead of watching the youtube video incites the same type of immersive contextual effect you talk about. it plays with my attention in a more thoughtful and meaningful way.
i also feel like your meta lens on cinema is so cool especially when the themes of this post relate to what it means to be human at heart (building community, sharing stories)
We need to approach the screen like we do the stage. Production rather than consumption will be the way we bring community and literacy back into it. We’re all walking around with smartphones in our pockets making a lot of epic non-fiction content (yours included) but I rarely see film. What if a/v club kids read screenplays like theatre kids read scripts and we performed movies like Shakespeare in the park? It would help immensely with media literacy, remind us that there’s a literary work at the heart of every production, and introduce a great deal of community back into the ecosystem. It’d probably be more fun than pro shoots where time is money, too.
I’ve got a screenplay that’s niche enough I don’t think I’ll be able to sell it and I’ve been toying with releasing it like a play. The idea of groups of friends each putting their unique spin and filming in their unique context is really exciting to me, even if they just did individual scenes. I’d love to curate a YouTube playlist with my favourite scenes to get a patchwork quilt of a movie, maybe update it each year. Put up a prize if I can make enough money off of it. The studio system is locked in this crisis of perpetually skyrocketing budgets that’s making them more and more risk averse when all I want are more movies like Slackers.
wow i think reading this instead of watching the youtube video incites the same type of immersive contextual effect you talk about. it plays with my attention in a more thoughtful and meaningful way.
i also feel like your meta lens on cinema is so cool especially when the themes of this post relate to what it means to be human at heart (building community, sharing stories)
We need to approach the screen like we do the stage. Production rather than consumption will be the way we bring community and literacy back into it. We’re all walking around with smartphones in our pockets making a lot of epic non-fiction content (yours included) but I rarely see film. What if a/v club kids read screenplays like theatre kids read scripts and we performed movies like Shakespeare in the park? It would help immensely with media literacy, remind us that there’s a literary work at the heart of every production, and introduce a great deal of community back into the ecosystem. It’d probably be more fun than pro shoots where time is money, too.
I’ve got a screenplay that’s niche enough I don’t think I’ll be able to sell it and I’ve been toying with releasing it like a play. The idea of groups of friends each putting their unique spin and filming in their unique context is really exciting to me, even if they just did individual scenes. I’d love to curate a YouTube playlist with my favourite scenes to get a patchwork quilt of a movie, maybe update it each year. Put up a prize if I can make enough money off of it. The studio system is locked in this crisis of perpetually skyrocketing budgets that’s making them more and more risk averse when all I want are more movies like Slackers.
https://substack.com/@startupmac/note/p-170423966?r=61vdna