I finally got back to working with a momentum.
Dashed off two proposals- one non fiction and the other for fiction. Which gets a bit tough in a week, but if you're in the business of creativity, you've got to be able to do this sort of thing. Add in the winding up for an earlier project - that's my working week.
The Non-Fiction thing was actually more interesting to work out, as it was an area that I had always want to work in, but never had a chance. My work has mostly been commissioned documentaries and slowly a desire to do more was building. But you've got to earn a living, and as mine happens to be documentaries, I just keep doing them.
Once in a way I get an opportunity like THE CAREGIVERS where the producers (PSBT) backed my vision of things. End result was what I thought is an interesting documentary. So when this opportunity came to pitch a proposal, (very late, as I had all of five days to do the proposal), I thought I must stretch myself and do the proposal. Afterall without a proposal you're not in the race. Anyway its gone now.
The Fiction thing has been more interesting to work on, its a script I have wanted to write all my working life, but never managed to do so. I seemed to lack the motivation and the necessary skills to do. After days of thinking, I finally just buckled down and wrote it all down. Yes I was modifying it, tinkering till the last minute of submission, but now can proudly say I have script, well technically its only a treatment, but its there. Again, its an old story, set in a village in a feudal environment, might not go down well in the world of malls, mobiles and cynicism. But one has to try.
Do I have hopes for the proposals? Of course I do, but in a sense its beyond all that. You strive, create and submit your work to other people to judge. From here on, its up to those who sit in judgement.
Will the competitions change anything? Yes, they have already pushed me into changing my perception of myself.
I guess that's what its all about, not winning but participating.
Dashed off two proposals- one non fiction and the other for fiction. Which gets a bit tough in a week, but if you're in the business of creativity, you've got to be able to do this sort of thing. Add in the winding up for an earlier project - that's my working week.
The Non-Fiction thing was actually more interesting to work out, as it was an area that I had always want to work in, but never had a chance. My work has mostly been commissioned documentaries and slowly a desire to do more was building. But you've got to earn a living, and as mine happens to be documentaries, I just keep doing them.
Once in a way I get an opportunity like THE CAREGIVERS where the producers (PSBT) backed my vision of things. End result was what I thought is an interesting documentary. So when this opportunity came to pitch a proposal, (very late, as I had all of five days to do the proposal), I thought I must stretch myself and do the proposal. Afterall without a proposal you're not in the race. Anyway its gone now.
The Fiction thing has been more interesting to work on, its a script I have wanted to write all my working life, but never managed to do so. I seemed to lack the motivation and the necessary skills to do. After days of thinking, I finally just buckled down and wrote it all down. Yes I was modifying it, tinkering till the last minute of submission, but now can proudly say I have script, well technically its only a treatment, but its there. Again, its an old story, set in a village in a feudal environment, might not go down well in the world of malls, mobiles and cynicism. But one has to try.
Do I have hopes for the proposals? Of course I do, but in a sense its beyond all that. You strive, create and submit your work to other people to judge. From here on, its up to those who sit in judgement.
Will the competitions change anything? Yes, they have already pushed me into changing my perception of myself.
I guess that's what its all about, not winning but participating.
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