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somedaybitchwhen you interview me for production designer, and i give you feedback on your script, and tell you what i think is necessary for your film from a design/art standpoint, and where i think you may have some troubles, and ask you what underlying theme you're trying to convey, i'm just doing MY JOB as a production designer. i'm also assessing you on the sly, trying to determine your BaseCollaborativeLevel.
so, when you flip your shit and tell me i don't understand your artistic sensibilities, and i totally missed the point of your script, and you are so disappointed in me, or whatever the fuck bullshit you tell me, i get deeply, deeply amused to see your ad, three months later, still looking for a production designer. and feel OH SO VERY VINDICATED, when almost all of your ad is addressing all the shit i told you was potentially problematic, and TOTALLY KISSING YOUR NOT-EVEN-HIRED-YET-PRODUCTION-DESIGNER'S-ASS!!!!
seriously, i don't think i'm all that and a glass of milk, i really don't, but i do have 10 films under my belt, two of them award winning, one a feature, and 3 more projects in various stages of pre-production, so i'm not exactly a rookie at this. which isn't to say that i'm always right, or my ideas are always good, but maybe you, still a student in college, might want to reign in the ZOMG!MISUNDERSTOODARTISTE!!!!eleventy and recognize that i might be offering you something you should be paying attention to, even if it's just to bounce my reaction off of a few other people with no connection to your project. because, really, if you suck at collaboration - and you aren't James Cameron, Michael Mann, or Ridley Scott - just write a fucking book instead, because film is not the medium for you.
here endeth therantlesson.
so, when you flip your shit and tell me i don't understand your artistic sensibilities, and i totally missed the point of your script, and you are so disappointed in me, or whatever the fuck bullshit you tell me, i get deeply, deeply amused to see your ad, three months later, still looking for a production designer. and feel OH SO VERY VINDICATED, when almost all of your ad is addressing all the shit i told you was potentially problematic, and TOTALLY KISSING YOUR NOT-EVEN-HIRED-YET-PRODUCTION-DESIGNER'S-ASS!!!!
seriously, i don't think i'm all that and a glass of milk, i really don't, but i do have 10 films under my belt, two of them award winning, one a feature, and 3 more projects in various stages of pre-production, so i'm not exactly a rookie at this. which isn't to say that i'm always right, or my ideas are always good, but maybe you, still a student in college, might want to reign in the ZOMG!MISUNDERSTOODARTISTE!!!!eleventy and recognize that i might be offering you something you should be paying attention to, even if it's just to bounce my reaction off of a few other people with no connection to your project. because, really, if you suck at collaboration - and you aren't James Cameron, Michael Mann, or Ridley Scott - just write a fucking book instead, because film is not the medium for you.
here endeth the
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Date: 2007-06-21 04:20 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-06-21 08:10 pm (UTC)"so... what you are really looking for is a sycophant, right? just to be clear..."
could be worse... you could have hired on and then had to avoid throwing him under a bus... on the other hand, I suppose being in film school is the time whenyou'd see much of this since most of those students haven't had enough life to smooth their rough edges yet... at least when I was in college I was probably a misunderstood bastard :bigevilgrin:
hmm, maybe I haven't changed as much as I'd have thought.... :D
silver lining is that you may have made a better path for the next PD...