Thank you for your encouragement to focus more on vision and what story you are trying to tell first. Obsessing over what gear I need clouds the vision.

I needed this post today. Thanks.

So while it has reached many, many people, the technical limitations we had at the time, prevented it from reaching a bigger audience, and also prevented us from getting some of the money back we invested in making it! So while story is indeed of the utmost importance, if your technical equipment is lacking, it can come back and bite you in the ass!

Love your work and your blog, thanks for allowing me to comment!

Enjoy your time connecting with your family. I’m sure you will :))

Best
Lliam

Regards,
Alex

Very well said… always important to regularly step back from the technology and realize the greater vision.

Great stuff Shane – keep on creating.

Seb TR

“If one advances confidently in the direction of one’s dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” I heard this Theroux quote around the same time I watched the short and have dedicated myself to absorb as much information , experience and advice to help start a career in this industry. Doors will and are opening and I owe you for the kick in the ass.

I’m a film maker from Australia. Like all who seem to visit, I admire and appreciate your masterful work, but most of all I’m a fan of the generosity, honesty and warmth that comes through so strongly in all of your blogs and responses. It is inspiring and of great value to developing film makers like myself. Today your latest entry was very valuable and pertinent to me. So I wanted to write in and say thank you.

In January 2012 I will be shooting/directing my first low budget Indi feature – a goal I have been trying to achieve for the past 9 years. For the past twelve weeks I have spent a huge amount of time researching in aid of making the best equipment decisions I can with my 15k equipment budget. It has been an enjoyable process in no small part… However over the past 2-3 weeks (NAB news) I have also felt an uncomfortable inner pull and insecurity growing… I don’t mean to sound melodramatic, but I have consciously noticed my excitement and creative desire becoming eclipsed by an almost compulsive need to find the “best” solutions, immerse myself in what ifs and fears I will not have enough… Yet even as uncomfortable as this all is, and conscious of it as I am, the power is undeniable – it’s like some kind of technological siren song, singing a promise of endless distraction within it’s gadgetry cantata.

But beneath another part of me senses, if not quite my creative death, (Warned yo about that melodrama :)) certainly my own mediocrity beckoning as I content myself – as Denis Waitley eloquently puts it, by “Instead of tackling the most important priorities that would make us successful and effective in life, we prefer the path of least resistance and do things simply that will relieve our tension, such as shuffling papers and majoring in minors.”

I still have many difficult decisions to make in order to make best use of my budget.Perhaps you could even help advise me. But reading your blog helps affirm exactly what my heart is yelling at me… Not to sweat it too much, because the most important choice I can ever make, is always available to me… and thats to be about the work of creating.

Thanks Shane.

Kind Regards,

Lliam