Tyler (tall hatted person to the left) has almost completed the editing of ‘Sea Things’. It’s taken an extra day, that is if you judge a full day as being made of 8 hours (I think it’s 10 hours). Tyler and I extended the piece to ten minutes long, because the sea was so slow, anything faster would fail. It’s been a challenge (read that word with a euphemistic awareness) .. to get the editing done in just a few days. A select viewing audience of my two most trusted advisors were invited to view the film and comment on it: more sea. less maps.length. Good advice which was put into action immediately.
This particular film is required to document the project in a style an audience, totally uninformed about the project, can comprehend. Equally, the film must enrich the creative being and offer newness to those involved in or familiar with this endeavour.
I think it works and I think it doesn’t work. What the film has done is made me aware of personalities in projects; that the only way one gets a special result if those who made the film care more about the film than any other job at hand. If you’re working with anyone less than obsessed the film you get will be weaker than the original idea that it was born out of.
It is always people that make or break things. Yes, things.
