Clouds

Well, I started off wanting to avoid putting class projects up here but, like many of my previous rules... I am going to break it. Watching this at the Festival of the Arts in Grand Rapids this weekend (with about two other people) helped me clarify my thoughts about this film. On one hand, I hate it. It's cheesy and lame. It tells no real story it has no big message. On the other hand, this film is very important to me. Making it was largely therapeutic for me. I was generally in a bad place in my head going into this project. I only decided to make a film with a "happy vibe" because the rest of my class was making depressing/lonely/desperation/anger films. But it helped me to put a lot of things into perspective and I learned how much better a film can be if it's personal. It is about something, it's about me in only ways that I can understand. Cameron Crowe once said that "it's funny how the personal moments are what affect people" and in the future, that's all I can hope to do and I think this was a fair start. Granted, there's A LOT of things I would have liked to have done differently with this, but hopefully in the future when I need to, I can come back to it. But for now, it simply is...

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