Hello indietalk,
long time without being here. As usual at the beginning of my posts, I apologize for any mistakes in English.
I started my career 11 years ago, making very simple motivational videos for a football club, for which the only audience was the players moments before entering the field. After this, I got some serious jobs and enjoyed each opportunity that appeared in my front. Today, I'm directing comercial films for a studio. We are doing nice works, like this:
http://facebook.com/FluminenseFC/videos/1084848868239507
And bringing bigger clients:
https://www.facebook.com/AOCdoBrasil/videos/1107796522626629
And way bigger...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARVhxfs0tZ0
So, at this moment I'm very happy with my work and the growing up we are living, except for one thing. I always wanted to make narrative cinema, it is my biggest professional dream since I was a kid, and although I feel prepared for it, I never did even a single short. Nothing, zero. Every time I tried to write a script, I ended up with an unfinished story. It is like I feel good about the idea of the movie, I can see that it has a strong soul, I can see important scenes, but dark thoughts start to discourage me as someone whose job was to look for weaknesses along the work, generally without a good replacement for it. The time passes and when I wake up, there is another project archived that never came to life. Nothing wrong to me being a commercial director, I'm really loving it. But without making narrative movies I feel deeply incomplete.
Well I'm trying to write again and having the same difficults, although the quality of the plot is way better than last ones, I still find myself doubting or relucting about my choices.
I appreciate any advising about this process, specially from professionals who already felt like this or has experience about this. How did you fight your insecurity?
Thank you very much!
long time without being here. As usual at the beginning of my posts, I apologize for any mistakes in English.
I started my career 11 years ago, making very simple motivational videos for a football club, for which the only audience was the players moments before entering the field. After this, I got some serious jobs and enjoyed each opportunity that appeared in my front. Today, I'm directing comercial films for a studio. We are doing nice works, like this:
http://facebook.com/FluminenseFC/videos/1084848868239507
And bringing bigger clients:
https://www.facebook.com/AOCdoBrasil/videos/1107796522626629
And way bigger...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARVhxfs0tZ0
So, at this moment I'm very happy with my work and the growing up we are living, except for one thing. I always wanted to make narrative cinema, it is my biggest professional dream since I was a kid, and although I feel prepared for it, I never did even a single short. Nothing, zero. Every time I tried to write a script, I ended up with an unfinished story. It is like I feel good about the idea of the movie, I can see that it has a strong soul, I can see important scenes, but dark thoughts start to discourage me as someone whose job was to look for weaknesses along the work, generally without a good replacement for it. The time passes and when I wake up, there is another project archived that never came to life. Nothing wrong to me being a commercial director, I'm really loving it. But without making narrative movies I feel deeply incomplete.
Well I'm trying to write again and having the same difficults, although the quality of the plot is way better than last ones, I still find myself doubting or relucting about my choices.
I appreciate any advising about this process, specially from professionals who already felt like this or has experience about this. How did you fight your insecurity?
Thank you very much!
That's right, this time I will finish the job, no matter what it takes.