The World Of WD--Cheap, Fast, And Good
Thank you for the warm welcome! Glad to see so many people see eye to eye about Jessica Alba. Never actually met her but I will say her brother is a doll.
To answer your questions Pariss I'm a little bit all three. I am definitely more Doer than Dreamer and I hope a lot more Dreamer than Entitled. But I think we all have a little of all 3 in us.
Miss X is right. This can apply to all lives, all careers, all dreams. You need to be a little entitled to have the courage to go after what you want, especially if it's different than what's expected of you. You have to have a bit of Dreamer, and talent, to back your actions. Most importantly you need to be a Doer or someone else will live your dream-life, and, not as well you could have.
As for my Lost connection, there isn't one...yet. J.J. Abrams is brilliant. I had an audition for a great role on Lost about ten days ago. An acting and action role. I was so excited. A week in Hawaii. A great show. Lots of frolicking on the beach and good looking men. Two hours before the audition, my agent called and told me it had been canceled. That's it. Just canceled. I found out later that week that the audition had been canceled because Zoë Bell had accepted the part. So if I'm going to loose out on a role, at least it's to Zoë Bell!
So this week I was working on my friend's feature film. A film I wasn't going to be working on because the budget was shockingly low (and I've worked on some low budget films), but they were good friends of mine and I didn't want to let them down. The interesting thing I have come to see, is there is an interesting trade off between budget and idealism on set. There is an interesting saying which I think applies to everything but works wonderfully for this industry.
You have three ways of getting something done. CHEAP. FAST. GOOD. But you can only have 2 at a time. If you want it Cheap and Fast it's not gonna be Good. If you want it Cheap and Good it's not gonna be Fast. If you want something Fast and Good it's not gonna be Cheap.
The low budget indie - You might not ever see this movie, you might not ever hear about this movie. And there are only two ways of making these, CHEAP and GOOD (very slowly on weekends between begging, borrowing and day jobs) or CHEAP and FAST (It's done. It's crap but it's done).
Studio Pictures- You actually might not see a lot of these. Even with all the clout and power. You'd be surprised how few of these actually make it to the theatres. This is especially true now because the studios make more money sending it straight to DVD.
Sadly, a lot of these movies don't fit into any of the categories. They are EXPENSIVE-SLOW-BAD. Have you seen Spiderman 3?
My point is that I had a blast working on my friend’s film. It didn’t matter that we didn’t have our own trailers and limos. We had all banded together to create something because this what we are here for. People in the indie world are still doing it for love and art. I’m not saying that high paying professionals don’t, but there is a spark missing. When your love becomes your job, when your release is your paycheck, when your hobby is your “9 to 5”, a little bit of the artist in you fades. You are no longer struggling to express yourself. So this little cast of working actors and crew who are normally highly paid professionals came together to fight the man, to make a movie, against all odds. Maybe you will end up seeing it, and maybe you won't. Either way, it’ll be better than Spiderman 3.
