For fuckâs sake, I get these kids in my workshops and theyâre like, I donât know how, I donât have the equipment, I donâtâŠ
And when they get that they donât need the equipment, that no oneâs ever gonna give them the foolproof solution to what they want to express, thatâs when the best stuff comes out.
It seems silly that Vine was six seconds only. Until kids (câmon you know it was almost all young people) started using that silly thing to make wild, wild and incredibly told stories. With no judgement over their heads and no snobbish expectations directed at them, they created an entirely new language of editing, which, by the way, big-name films are drawing inspiration from, thank you very much. Go watch The Big Short and tell me Iâm wrong.
The language of movies changes with innovations, with, yes, GIMMICKS. Do you know why Citizen Kane is such a monumentally important work? Itâs not because itâs such a profound and well-told story. Itâs because of the camera angles. Somehow no one had really thought to put the camera down on the floor before Orson Welles did. Six seconds of footage only? Thatâs a mistake, a scrap, an unusable bit of nothing.
Camera on the floor? At a weird angle? Did someone drop it? Unusuable, spoiled footage. Or a weird gimmick. What about âtalkiesâ? Undignified and profane, ew.
What about youtube? Old youtube. Whatâs the point of putting videos online if the quality is so shitty you can barely watch them?
Gifs? Man, who thought looping a bit of video into an embeddable image made any sense when you can just watch the film itself. Oh, btw, Gifs used to be way smaller and have a limited palette. Why anyone bothered trying to do anything with that format is beyond me. Waste of time.
Computer graphics? Eeeeh, gimmick. *throws hands up and stomps away, growling and spitting*
