TIME TO THINK...

As we all know, we have been hit with the terrible Covid-19 pandemic and our lives have been affected in many different ways. From a filmmakers perspective, the pandemic impeded us to do what we love the most, and that is to film the most beautiful locations, one in a lifetime events, and many more. The automatic reaction to this is to feel depleted, useless, and ultimately out of ideas, but if we just take some time to think… of ways to make your future as a filmmaker better, easier, and more fun, you can benefit a lot from what I am going to tell you.

For the past few months, I was not able to create amazing professional content for the site but that is because I have been working on new camera techniques, trying out new editing software ext… I also created the new Think Blink logo which I think is way better than the last one. What I’m trying to say is that we can use this time to start fresh, make new discoveries about filmmaking that you would like to implement in your next project, get new gear, ext…

How can we start expanding? In my case, I created a new logo, made a number of small drone videos, I got sponsored by an art gallery, and even bought new gear. I am not saying that you have to do the same but what I am saying is that if you can do something suitable for the situation you are in, whether your stuck at home or stuck in the most boring place on earth, try to find the most simple thing of that location and just film it, edit it, compose it. Add context to your object, review it. There are so many ways for you to create a small movie about something you take for granted so much that you wouldn’t even know the item existed and make it interesting. Ultimately, this will make you a better creator because you have a vast mind, a unique way of thinking, you will be able to think of ‘outside the box’ ideas that most people wouldn’t necessarily think of in the first place.

If you want to take something away from this blog post, let it be this ‘filmmaking is not about dialling g in an aperture’. Thank you.