Thursday, May 11, 2006

Why I'm here

Well, I like stories, which is I suppose as good a qualification for this team as any other. I think movies are a great way of telling stories, or even just stepping aside from the whole telling-stories thing and jumping straight into “telling emotions” - you know, that feeling you get when you see a brachiosaur looming high over you (and Richard Attenborough, Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, and fifty-odd anonymous people sharing the cinema hall with you), or the feeling of absolute failure when you see Annette Bening crumble into tears in American Beauty.

Apart from this, like a lot of other people, I'm curious as to how the web is going to change movie making, and the possibilities it opens up to people like my friends (who are the real ones behind this project), who would like to make movies. Imagine: between a video camera, iMovie, Google Videos (or YouTube), and Blogger, anybody can create movies.

There will always be separation between Big Studio and the little guys, but the competition between the little guys is rapidly going to heat up, and I definitely intend to be a part of it.