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Friday, October 30, 2009 - 8:34 PM - Tampa Indie Film Log for Filmmaker C. A. Passinault
Prepping
I'm going over Tampa Bay Film notes scrawled on my yellow notepad while a music video on my online film festival plays in the background. I thought that I had the section layout for the latter four sites down (thank God that they are all online with enough content to get the ball rolling), but evidently not. It should take me an hour to map those sections out, and another few hours to put the sites together. Content will take the most time to do. Expect them online by the end of the weekend.
This Tampa Film Blog will have a thumbnail image array shortly. I'm also tweaking the tops and the bottoms of the menus. Once the other Tampa Bay Film sites are up, I will have time to organize the hundreds of pages of content here. There are a lot of sections in the current Tampa Bay Film sites starving for content, and I'm going to be writing a lot in the next few days. Just not here on this blog.
Oh... ahem... regarding one of my stalkers jeering me and stating that I announce things and then offer up nothing but excuses when I don't do them. I suppose that you are referring to the Halloween Drive-In. The invitation list was tiny, with only four of us slated to "attend", myself included (that means that I was depending upon three people, and at least two of them would have had to participate). The underground film festival was supposed to be a fun diversion, and was to make a point. I did all my prep, and it was all ready to go. I held up my end. What happened the weekend of the 25th was beyond my control. This said, I'll probably get around to doing this in the next few weeks. It doesn't have to be Halloween to have my Halloween Drive-In, and just doing this alone would qualify it for the most creative, and the smallest, film festival in Tampa Bay history. So, what is the point of the Halloween Drive-In? To demonstrate that you don't have to put a lot of money into a film festival to have a good one. What's the point of underground film festivals? Bang for the buck. They can be just as effective as the large film festivals, and you can afford to have lots and lots of them. To me, underground film festivals are viral film festival lead-ins for my larger film festival properties. There is a definite purpose for them, as will be demonstrated.
Regarding film festivals, and films, and everything else going on, remember that I don't answer to anyone- especially snibbling "anonymous" stalkers who are obviously jealous of me. I do have a responsibility to my business partners and anyone out there investing time and money into my projects, but when things such as film festivals have not debuted, there is no obligation to explain myself. I'm on my own clock, and they'll get done when I am ready. When they happen, and they will, they will change everything. I would not make claims that I could not make good on.
Also keep in mind that I have a lot going on. Most people have few good ideas and have only one or two things going. I get great ideas faster than I can utilize them, and have hundreds of things going. Obviously, the way to start getting things done is to establish a hierarchy of support resources, and to delegate. This is being implemented, and like a snowball rolling downhill and gaining mass and momentum, more will get done at a faster rate as time goes on. I think that the real issue going on is that I am smart enough not to post my great ideas so that those jealous people out there cannot steal them. Too bad. You have to earn success.
So.... make big, expensive films the old fashioned way, like everyone else does them. Write rushed scripts. Do the same boring things that everyone else does. I don't care (and, I really don't see anything going on in indie film right now to get excited about, which is my main motivation to innovate). What I am working on, and what I will bring to the Tampa indie film market, is important. It will not only change Tampa indie film, but indie film period. Wait and see. Everyone who is not in the loop will simply have to be patient, and see what happens when I'm ready to unveil it.
At the moment, I am concentrating on positioning my Tampa Bay Film web sites. What I will be doing this weekend will become critical for what will be going on by the summer of 2010, although a few in the Tampa indie film scene will notice what is going on my early 2010. It's too bad that they cannot stop what is going to happen, and even if they could, they shouldn't. It's in their own best interest, and in the interest of putting Tampa indie film on the map, to allow this to take shape. After all, if all of the best innovations and advancements in independent film are happening in Tampa Bay, will it be possible to discount and disregard the Tampa indie film scene? The Tampa indie film scene, and the upcoming Tampa indie film community, have the potential to be the leaders, and the innovators, in independent film in the United States... and perhaps the world. I can see this, and so should you. Now, if you excuse me, I have work to do. Jokers can laugh, but I intend to have the last laugh. Also, you have to consider the source when it comes to any opinion, and considering who my detractors are and their noted failures, I simply do not take them seriously at all.
It is said that the definition of insanity is to try the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result. I submit that the others have had their shot, and the Tampa indie film scene has not improved. They try to copy what other indie filmmakers do, and do the same boring B.S. over and over again. They've had their shot. Now, I get to make a difference. It's just going to take time.
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