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Ridley Scott on Life in a Day
It should be personal. It must be personal. That’s what we’re looking for.
The key of course is what appeals to you, as the author.
The first film I ever did was a day in my life.
I thought, what am I going to do? So I thought oh I’ll just write a day in the life of me
and how I decided not to go to school because I hated school, and I’ll take the day off.
But by being, having a day off all to myself, I had to hide most of the time with my bicycle
and therefore it was very much a day of internalization narrative about thinking about this and thinking about that.
And that got me my first job.
Get up with your cameras and think about what I’ve said and actually record your day or whatever it is, it may be sunrise or sunset.
Now when I look at sunrise and sunset I merely give, read into that, I say OK, here’s the clue.
Sunrise to me is a new beginning, so to me it’s always optimistic.
Sunset is slightly sad and so there’s something in my psyche that makes me sad and slightly depressed until dusk passes into darkness and then I’ve had a *** martini and I feel better.
Think from here. Really think about why that sunrise makes you happy or why that sunset makes you sad.
There’s no excuse. You have a digital camera, go out and shoot your film. Seriously, there is no excuse.
If you wanna do what I do, get the camera, get some buddies, you put it together that way.
If you want to be a filmmaker, nothing should put you off and nothing should put you down.
Just do it.
That almost applies to everything. Just do it.