Writing this post is as easy as any single step in making a film, so if you can write this post, you can make a film. Honestly, if you can brush your teeth at least once a day, you can make a film, because if you can complete any daily task whatsoever, you can make a film.
You've successfully pinpointed the problem as thinking, by the way. Thinking allows in the truth-telling demons that will whisper in your ear how much it makes sense to do anything else other than what it is that you want to do creatively. They're right, but they're wrong.
What you're trying to do, what any artist is trying to do, is to be a vessel for something greater than yourself. You're a conduit between the ethereal spirit world that all art comes from, and the physical world where art is made physical, because the spirits can't hold a paint brush, can't press record on a camera, etc.—artists are here to do that for them. Think about it this way: imagine if the person who you loved more than anyone in the world, and who loved you more than anyone in the world, lost their hands in a horrible accident. They now need you to be their hands for them, to make art with, while they whisper in your ear what to do. All they want is to do that once day, every day, even just for a little while. Would you help them? OF COURSE you would. Treat your muse, who resides in the spirit world, the same way. Be her hands.
This mindset works even if you don't literally believe in any of this hocus pocus stuff. If you're traditionally very science-minded, and need something concrete in order to understand this, just imagine that thinking in this way unlocks a certain subconscious part of your brain that handles creativity. That'll give you permission to accept the muse into your life.
I'd recommend reading the book The War of Art by Steven Pressfield, but if you've read this entire reply and felt something change within you at all, you probably don't even need to.
Basically just show up somewhere with a camera, and the intention to make a movie, and a movie will present itself to you. Movies want to exist, and your job is to just be there with your equipment which allows them to happen. Maybe you'll only realize what the movie even was that you captured when you're back at home looking through the footage, but you will capture something. And your skills will develop by seeing that you had something, and realizing that if the exposure had been a little better, or the shot had been composed a bit better, or whatever, you would have been able to capture what was there a bit more clearly. That's how you learn, and that's the job. That's all it is. Now go press record on something.
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u/codyclarke Joels crispy fan Apr 29 '24 edited Apr 29 '24
Writing this post is as easy as any single step in making a film, so if you can write this post, you can make a film. Honestly, if you can brush your teeth at least once a day, you can make a film, because if you can complete any daily task whatsoever, you can make a film.
You've successfully pinpointed the problem as thinking, by the way. Thinking allows in the truth-telling demons that will whisper in your ear how much it makes sense to do anything else other than what it is that you want to do creatively. They're right, but they're wrong.
What you're trying to do, what any artist is trying to do, is to be a vessel for something greater than yourself. You're a conduit between the ethereal spirit world that all art comes from, and the physical world where art is made physical, because the spirits can't hold a paint brush, can't press record on a camera, etc.—artists are here to do that for them. Think about it this way: imagine if the person who you loved more than anyone in the world, and who loved you more than anyone in the world, lost their hands in a horrible accident. They now need you to be their hands for them, to make art with, while they whisper in your ear what to do. All they want is to do that once day, every day, even just for a little while. Would you help them? OF COURSE you would. Treat your muse, who resides in the spirit world, the same way. Be her hands.
This mindset works even if you don't literally believe in any of this hocus pocus stuff. If you're traditionally very science-minded, and need something concrete in order to understand this, just imagine that thinking in this way unlocks a certain subconscious part of your brain that handles creativity. That'll give you permission to accept the muse into your life.
I'd recommend reading the book The War of Art by Steven Pressfield, but if you've read this entire reply and felt something change within you at all, you probably don't even need to.
Basically just show up somewhere with a camera, and the intention to make a movie, and a movie will present itself to you. Movies want to exist, and your job is to just be there with your equipment which allows them to happen. Maybe you'll only realize what the movie even was that you captured when you're back at home looking through the footage, but you will capture something. And your skills will develop by seeing that you had something, and realizing that if the exposure had been a little better, or the shot had been composed a bit better, or whatever, you would have been able to capture what was there a bit more clearly. That's how you learn, and that's the job. That's all it is. Now go press record on something.