So the other day I stopped and realized that in two years or so…I’ve finished two feature films. Crazy. I think back to when I moved up from NYC in 2006; penniless, full of ideas, but I hadn’t made a single thing since Maine Workshops and “Fog”. A good friend of mine, Daniel Swinton, offered me some time with a camera and I jumped in with “Every Good Thing to Rust”. This was a labor of love, shot in order over the entire 06/07 school year. It may not look like much, but I’m extremely proud of it. You can get it off the website, or from IndiePix.
Here’s the trailer:
EVERY GOOD THING to RUST Trailer from John W. Yost on Vimeo.
Then…IndiePix decided to help me make another one right away, no rest. EGTTR was done in November 2007, by February of 2008 I had a finished outline and the go-ahead to make “The Brave and the Kind”. By this time last year the film was in the can. I’d like to stay busy at this pace, BUT will the work suffer. I recently was contacted by a fellow filmmaker in Ireland who works about as feverishly as I do. She hoped to have four features under her belt in just as many years. I am increasingly frustrated with how long things take in the film industry. Equipment has changed, the way we make films has changed; so why has the business end of things stayed the same? It seems like we should be able to make these low/no budget films much quicker. I think we couldhoot s high quality scripts in less time, for less money, and twice as often. It just needs to start with a great script and great pre-production. If the film industry as become anything lately…it’s wasteful. Not to say that every film can be made with only a crew of five, but if things were planned out better, it might take half as much everything. Maybe it’s time for directors and producers to put their “vision” into production as well.
John
Here’s the TBTK trailer:
TBTK Trailer from The Brave and the Kind on Vimeo.
