This is Apricot a short film by Ben Briand (watch it on Vimeo here).
Contrary to what I learn in my theory of cinema class--that image is the most important element of a film followed by sound and everything else is of minimal importance, I want the ability to tell a story like that some day. There are many examples of good story tellers, this is just one of them. I need not tell many of you that Yasmin Ahmad was one of the greatest story tellers Malaysia has ever seen.
Now what differentiates them, from us.
Being a personal friend of hers, my boss over the summer and the Creative Director of 3nity Design, Joe Foo, tried to account for her brilliance and exceptional ability with a list of ingredients. He said 4 elements were required for successful content creation (a layered approach to art and communication).
1. A colourful life.
2. A certain sharpness when it came to observing life.
3. A different way of thinking.
4. Courage in the presence of fear.
.. he went on to say that skill is easily obtainable, but what is truly invaluable, is experience.
Sure it may not be as simple as that, but I think that's a good place to start. I am going to leave it at that because it's currently 1AM and I want to have some ice-cream. Till tomorrow.
The whole notion of movie production is to tell stories. One may differ in his way of telling those stories and colors they use while doing so.
ReplyDeleteIn order to have a realistic and interesting plot one needs to take real stories and if necessary exaggerate them. That is to say that experience is necessary at this point, when you develop the concept of the story.
Nevertheless, any even, the greatest story ever, may be spoiled by a bad storyteller, who does not have this ability to present the information in a graphic way and at this point the image and sound become important.
It is true therefore, that pictures and sound are important elements of the cinema, however, taken apart from a plot they are merely images and audio waves, that have no idea to share.