look forward to your future work sir.

Moog

Must admit, I wasn’t sure about raising this subject on my blog. In fact, I feel a bit of a fraud saying anything about filmmaking, seeing as I have so little previous experience outside of lurking in the shadows cast by Sneakers and Charlies…

Rather selfishly, I think collecting my thoughts within my own dark little corner of the internet serves more of a personal interest than anything else. Hurling my little musings out into the electronic ether somehow makes them feel more substantial than just writing them down in my diary.

I will have to leave for another day the explanation of why I didn’t do something sooner, mostly because I’m still trying to figure that one out for myself. But you’re right about this particular challenge being a kick out the door for me. So for that, I am grateful.

Perhaps I have been a little hard on myself, but I think being tough on yourself is a vital quality in, well… in anything, really. It’s what drives me, spurs me onwards. Again, my public flogging is probably more about my own gratification than the passing on of experience.

Still, enough about flogging and gratification in public, eh?

See you around
Martin
The Whip Master General

Like you I’ve seen more than my fair share of awful films that unsurprisingly prove that 48hrs is not enough to make a good film. But I remember being in Berlin and watching the German entrants the year we made our worst film ever… it was humbling. When you see films made in 2 days that are far better than many people have struggled years over it makes you really reassess what is essential… and what is possible.

I think the fundamental point though is not to under estimate the importance of the point you yourself make “Doing anything creative is always preferable to doing nothing”. Yes it’s true that you *could* have made Kernel Panic outside of the competition… but it’s also true that you didn’t.

Digital cameras, cameras in phones, edit suites in our laptops… the freedom we all have now to make films is intoxicating and often also crippling. There’s little to stop any of us from making a film on any given day. If all a 48hr Challenge does is focus the mind and force a film out of the imagination then it does a great deal indeed.

After all, Kernel Panic may not be the best film you’ll ever make but it’s a lot better than you make out in this article and – most importantly – it is.

much love
bB