I'M Going to be a Film Producer

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I will still know all of y'all because I love all of y'all. After I'm an international star. Tomorrow afternoon I'm going to film as educational film about a blacksmith. I'm ready. I've got the piddly Bloggie video camera, and a tripod, and a really bright halogen light and some extension cords. I've got the hardware. In his blacksmith shop so far out of the way in rural Tennessee that the cops would never find it if they wanted to. And my GPS didn't really help me get back home except I almost knew where I was when I went there.

The stuff this guy does is really cool, not something you see every day.

Does anybody have any advice? Like how I should produce a film or anything? It shouldn't be any harder than playing a guitar and singing poorly, should it? I mean, isn't it all just art?

[Deaf Bob]

Watch for flying slag.. It will hurt you and your camera!

[TheSilverBuick]

I was in a movie and six of it's sequels. I played a geologist named Rock Johnson. It was a hard job.

[Barry Donovan]

I was in a movie and six of it's sequels. I played a geologist named Rock Johnson. It was a hard job.

porn star I presume.

anyway...
peewee will get it right from the get go. I can tell.
treat the camera like eyes.

I applied something rather peculiar, from my first videos onward. My mom used to babysit sometimes, little kids. I was older and helped along, play with the little ones. I used to carry a little girl up on my shoulders.. guiding around what could be seen.

that is what makes a film. Guiding eyes of what might want to be seen.
might be adult to a kid, or eye to eye... up to pewee.

[Gary 351C]

I'm sure you could do better than the garbage that's in theaters nowdays. Someone needs to re-make Kentucky Fried Movie.

[pdub]

Well piddly darn. The guy waved me off today. This morning he said he'd forgotten today was the day to do it and he wants to get his stuff set up ahead of time. Time. He's an artist, after all. Gotta give him some time. Like, musicians can "keep" time but have no sense of "time," as in what "time" the show starts. He's an artist, so that's a bye, no matter how ready I was. Maybe one afternoon next week, we'll see.

And it seems that for this first experiment at least, I had the wrong concept in mind. This morning he was saying he just wants to capture a single procedure people on FB keep asking him about, how to pour pewter to cap the end of an axe handle. He said the whole thing might take a minute and a half to shoot.

His FB page is Bray Oaks Forge if y'all are on FB and want to check it out. Neat stuff. It's fun to see somebody so enthused about something, practically fanatic, no matter what it is, it's fun to watch. For the newsletter article I worked up for him, he said he has "Found his calling." I'd say so for sure.