Monday, 10 August 2009

As blind as any traveller you could meet

There's a piece of advice that almost every short film book or website gives you.

Don't film a dream sequence.

So here in the Eton Crow offices, we took this seriously.

For our latest short film, we didn't film a dream sequence.

We filmed two.

This isn't bloodymindedness... Wait. It's not just bloodymindedness. Yes, there's a certain element of stubborn here. But we decided to go ahead and film the sequences because they look good and because they're not pretentious - there's an actual point to their existing.

They're not the stereotypical, clown-flipping-pancakes, girl-in-dress-contemplating-candle surreal bullshit dream sequences that directors use to get all the visual cues they want to on screen.

They're just a man, dreaming of a beach. No clowns. No pancakes.

We promise.

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