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Jun. 21st, 2007 02:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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
