It is finally done, it looks a little clip arty for my liking but i do really appreciate it as well so the pro’s far outweigh the con’s.
Also i had an Epiphany about my feeling that some of the episodes were going to feel the same. I discussed it with Tommy when I asked him to be a part of the project and I came to the decision of I do not have to direct every single episode.
Genius is what I would call it, I want to ask Lewis to direct the Ripper episode, Tommy (perhaps) to direct The Djinn episode, and I want a female director to direct The Morrigan episode. I believe I will still write the episodes but with this thought of seperate directors they will feel different in my mind.
I got the idea when I looked at game of thrones, The show had 2 show-runners that were in charge and wrote all the scripts but the actual directing was done by many different hands and i figured why not here. While I will admit Game of Thrones was doing it because they were filming multiple episodes at once and none of the episodes had majorly different tones I do believe it will work for Mythos.
I want to get more people involved in this, get more ideas flowing and come up with different shoot styles, settings and maybe even slightly dip out of genre to thrillers, or psychological thrillers, or action horror and perhaps even horror comedy ( though that is not likely in my mind) I believe this is where the circle of local filmmakers can expand and not only diversify but improve the stories even more.
I also loved all the different styles I have learned about while writing this bible out, taking ideas from animated movies, to new horror films on netflix, to comics and books. I really want to try and experiment and break the mould that is currently in movies. Doing weird things just to see how they work. One of my favourite so far was something I saw in a netflix show beastars.
It was a scene where two characters were talking but above one character these eyes were there along with a inner monologue as he was hiding something from the girl in front of him. Weird things like that taking inspiration from any and every media source to make weird and new things. It even matches the themes of the show which is showing stories from all across the world in the light they were supposed to be shown and not just as a localised western remake. If I can adopt some of the styles as well as the stories I believe this will exponentially increase the appeal and quality of the episodes.
And make me a better filmmaker in the process.
I have struggled a lot during this project and I will never forget those lessons nor let those issues get in the way of work again because creating this show has been one of the most fun things I have ever done and I am incredibly excited to carry on developing it further getting more experience and hopefully creating something genuinely fantastic (and horrific in the sense of genre at least)
Well thats all I have to post about for now, hopefully I keep this up as it is a nice way to vent if nothing else. More importantly though its a good place to see thoughts on “paper” and read them back later with a fresh mindset. Either way I will see you on the next blog post whenever that is!
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