Since I am home sick this week, I am having sometime to rehabilitate myself from my two worst addictions: Work and computers. I have been so addicted to work that I did not take a single day off last year! And in the weekends, I work or think about work. When I wake up in the morning, I am thinking about work and when I am driving home at night, I am thinking either about the day I just had or the following day I did not have yet. I am also addicted to computers, and I waste so much time being online, sitting on my desk or working on my laptop just for the sake of it. I have a great set of electronic gadgets, and I am digitally addicted. I took the past 2 days off and I enjoyed doing trivial things: Running errands, buying junk from GoodWill, playing with my dog… And I really felt recreated.
Now, I am doing two activities: finishing Rodriguez book (I am a slow reader since English is not my first language), and jotting down ideas for my first script, which I decided will be about toys and kids growing up. While I wanted to do it as an animation in the first place, I realized I would be tackling two problems at once: making a film, and making an animation. Since I am a big fan of partial analysis (I am a right brainer trapped in a left brainer body.), and since I realized I may not need to animate the toys (I had this wacky idea about realizing the whole script with lighting, camera movements and voice over), I will try to make the first cut with my MiniDV and edit it.
One thing that I learned from life, and that I have been constantly told from my mentor, that the secret of success lies in doing. While there are lots of books I can read about filmmaking, and lots of classes, workshops and tutorials I can learn from, I just want to use the intuitive right-brained child inside of me and just do, at least the first few ones. I have learned that I can read so much, but not many things make sense if I don’t come from my own personal experience.
