Thursday, November 1, 2007
On Student Films and also Pirates.
Student films come in two varieties, the good ones and the bad ones. (Which are which is a matter of opinion and a complicated thing altogether) When you go with the good ones there are again two basic varieties, the ones that you really enjoy watching, and would happily sit and watch again, and the technically good but otherwise uninteresting ones. You know, the ones where you kind of sit there staring at the screen thinking 'Nice cinematography, a very deep message here, god I wish this thing would be over'. They don't even need to be sleep inducing, they can merely be thoroughly uninteresting. It's for this reason that I've always tried to make my films interesting to watch, and my favorite student films are the ones that are interesting to watch. I'm sorry people but student films can't honestly be that good and I'll take zombies and serial killers over deep stories of dead family members any day. Unless of course that is, if the family members come back from the dead and start eating the living, that I'll take.
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I guess it comes down to personal preference. The best student movies are the ones that have both an interesting and engaging story and good cinematography, which is no easy feet to pull off. At the SIT we have to strictly conform to a lot of standards in regards to lighting, plot structure etc etc instead of good or interesting stories which I believe is wrong. There are many flaws in my course, hopefully one day they'll iron most of them out. There are many angles one can take to try and make a decent movie, and whether the vision of the creator and the finished product end up being similar at all is another thing entirely.
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