We had some amazing rain showers today...
Sorry if this all reads like a rant, but I’ve been using this blog to vent.
I guess I just hate the ‘group think’ way of doing things.
Nothing truly wonderful ever seems to come out of a group of humans all ambling along in possibly a similar direction.
Humans don’t do ‘hive mind’ very well, so there needs to be some sort of direction applied to all our endeavours.
In our group, there were three of us (me, the actor and the young guy) all pretty much pulling in the same direction. The actor and I went off for an hour during the edit to organise music and sound effects.
We come back and the old man has forced his opinion onto the young guy (who was probably the most talented person in the group.) A chunk had disappeared from the middle of the piece.
I’m kind of pissy at both of them.
One for being a wimp, and the other for taking advantage of that.
The old man was still at it till the end. We were typing in the credits, and he tried to change the title of the piece. The young guy pipes up with a ‘but I thought we were going to call it Six Shots?’
The old man couldn’t pull a bully move now, and we kept the original title.
I guess that is just the way of the world. If you let someone walk all over you, they will.
Since the project didn’t go the way he was pushing, I think the old man had decided that he was going to ‘fix’ the production.
Unfortunately, as with a lot of things that are pulled one way and then the other, the end result didn’t really satisfy anyone.
What do you do…
Please one person?
Please a few people?
Please most people?
Please everyone? (This can happen, but almost always remains a utopian fantasy.)
Hard isn’t it!
We started the day with one unhappy person in a group of five, and ended the day with four cranky people glad just to get the thing finished (the final member was an older woman who spent most of her time coming to terms with the complexity of film making.)
The ‘short’ is finished and we all get a DVD copy of the result.
I’ll see what I can do about posting it for you all to have a perve.
I have mixed feelings about group think. I have seen it work a few times and it was great, but more often than not, it doesn't because of the clash of personalities.
ReplyDeleteI'm not the best person to consult about group think. Everyone contributing to a project is one thing; acquiesing to a bully is another. I turned cranky just reading the posting. ;-)
ReplyDeleteHmm. I vote you get a Bolex wind-up (16mm) and DIY. I realize HD video may be the way to go if you want to be in broadcasting some day, and film is very expensive, but maybe you can iron out some of those knowledge-base issues on your own w/o having to deal with crotchety old geezers pissing you off and not setting the white balance or having existential crises in between set-ups. When the project really counts, the guy who knows the most and is the most efficient at getting it all together is the guy who gets to bark out orders from that point on. If the old folks have money to throw down on a project, that's another story...
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty much in agreement with you :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment.