Day of the Shot

I’ve already shot some amateur films with my friends, so I know the feeling when stress grips the stomach the morning before the shooting. I thought about this kind of pressure when I saw „Day of the fight” (on Google Video) by Stanley Kubrick.
As I was watching his early film I imagined the fighter as an independent filmmaker.


Both in professional and independent filmmaking, you have to fight for success and win. The boundaries of professional and independent filmmaking disappeared a long time ago.
38 years passed since this interview with Kubrick. He said:

„The best education in film is to make one. I would advise any neophyte director to try to make a film by himself. A three-minute short will teach him a lot. I know that all the things I did at the beginning were, in microcosm, the things I'm doing now as a director and producer. There are a lot of noncreative aspects to filmmaking which have to be overcome, and you will experience them all when you make even the simplest film: business, organization, taxes, etc., etc. It is rare to be able to have an uncluttered, artistic environment when you make a film, and being able to accept this is essential.

The point to stress is that anyone seriously interested in making a film should find as much money as he can as quickly as he can and go out and do it. And this is no longer as difficult as it once was. When I began making movies as an independent in the early 1950s I received a fair amount of publicity because I was something of a freak in an industry dominated by a handful of huge studios. Everyone was amazed that it could be done at all. But anyone can make a movie who has a little knowledge of cameras and tape recorders, a lot of ambition and -- hopefully -- talent. It's gotten down to the pencil and paper level. We're really on the threshold of a revolutionary new era in film.”("The Film Director as Superstar" Doubleday and Company: Garden City, New York)

It is very interesting that we also can say: „We're really on the threshold of a revolutionary new era in film”, because anyone can make a movie even easier than before.

But what is truly revolutionary? When the day of the shooting comes.