I thought yesterday was going to be more of the same shit…filling in forms, sending out stuff to festivals, trying to sort out the last clearances hell. Sometimes I feel like Tokyo Cowboys’ bitch. But, at 10:30 a.m., I got a call from Alexeij, our illustrious sound mixer. He’d done the first pass on the film, and could we come in at noon to have a listen. Yes, yes, yes.
Sitting in the dubbing theatre, I began to feel like a real filmmaker again. These past few months I started to believe that filmmaking was just an expensive hobby for us. It was really getting me down. But, then, there was the Japan Film Festival, and that got me on the way to believing in us again. But, being in the dubbing theatre, and listening to the film, and giving direction to Alexeij…that brought it home for me.
Do you have to make your entire living as a filmmaker to be one? Patrick is in this camp…you are a filmmaker when you earn a living as a filmmaker. I’m more of the namby-pamby “you are a filmmaker when you feel like you are…when you believe you are.”
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Oh, P.S. Here are my notes for the sound:
Rob
First comes the belief; then comes the reality. Without the belief there will come nothing.
So sayth me 🙂