When is it okay to just do it all yourself? Written by Justin McConnell. “I hate to be bored.” This sentence is one I speak whenever I try to self-deprecatingly attempt to justify why I have so many projects on the go at once. Or whenever someone asks why I decided to make a given piece of visual media, despite rarely having the proper resources to pull it off. For the relatively few aware of my career, one littered with features and shorts produced out-of-pocket, where the key resource was time, a somewhat common refrain I hear is, "Imagine what you could do with a budget!" It was in this same "just get something made" spirit that I set out to start producing my new documentary Clapboard Jungle, all the way back in 2014. Back then, I came to the realization that the development of my various narrative projects was going to take time, likely a lot of time, and cooked up a way to start producing something in the meantime. Something I could create on the periphery, with the goal of having a finished release down the line. A film I could make on metaphorical table scraps while the other projects simmered. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Thursday, 4 February, 2021