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Here are a couple of ideas I took from these videos –

Constantly generate work – We always want to create amazing work from the beginning but it takes practice and a lot of crappy projects to get there. Ira’s advice is that keep making work till you get where you want to reach.

Two pitfalls of new creatives

1. When people adopt other people’s personalities and try to recreate them in their own work. Ira’s advice is to be genuine and let your own personality out in your work.
2. Have enough characters to create tension and drama. Don’t make your story about one person or one thing. Make the story interesting, and think from multiple perspectives.

These short videos were very interesting and gave me a lot of ideas of how I should write a story for my final video. Following were a couple of ideas I picked up from the videos:

1. Ask questions – a good storyline is constantly asking questions to keep them engaged with the content.
2. Anecdote – Have a storyline where things transition from one step to another.
3. Moment of reflection – boring stories have no revelation, no new meaning, no new idea.
4. Ruthless cropping – Eliminate parts that you don’t need to tell the story. Don’t fill you story with crap just to fill the gaps.
5. Failure is a part of success – Be prepared to scrap your idea or fail. Best learning come from failure, and they teach you how to be better the next time.

This was was and interesting documentary mainly because adding some constraints can completely change the movie. Leth struggled through each scenario but I think Trier had a vision for his obstructions. It’s never easy to tear down a movie and reimagine it especially when you have already seen the original version. However, Leth’s imagination actually made it possible for him to push through and pass 4 out of 5 obstructions.

I was a little confused as to what was the purpose of watching this documentary? Was it so see how constraints can change an original document? or to see various aspects of movie development? or something else? I will probably get to know more about this through the class discussion.

Last week I visited the Rose Mansion museum in NYC. The museum contains of several rooms with various art installations and you are served different wines with each room. In each room you get to learn about some history and science behind each wine.

Overall, the concept was interesting and the set up was really beautiful. It felt like an Instagram palooza, as everyone was more interested in taking picture than learn about wine history. GULTY! I did the same!