[Frameworks] query for those who teach filmmaking

[Aaron F. Ross]

Damn you kids, get off my lawn!!

This argument has been going on ever since the Sony Porta-pak video 
system became available in the late 60s. Lower cost and instant 
gratification has supposedly killed creativity. But of course, now 
there is an entire historical catalog of long form video art that is 
now in the experimental cinema canon, preserved in museums, part of 
the "establishment".

Technology is not making things too easy, it's enabling people who 
previously couldn't make movies to be creative. They often do need 
guidance, and that guidance has to come from mentors who understand 
the art of cinema as well as its technological developments.

Rejecting the technology is a losing strategy. You can't put the 
genie back in the bottle. To stay relevant, instructors must adapt to 
the changing times. This is the fundamental issue with education 
across the board.

Aaron



At 4/23/2014, you wrote:
>But with our students it actually is "speed" that's killing 
>creativity, as they become more and more acclimated to working 
>"fast"--digital cameras, digital editing systems, etc. Ah, it's just 
>terrible--so much junk.
>
>Shoot slow, edit slow, experience slow. ;]
>
>Tim
>
>
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>From: flick at flickharrison.com
>Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 12:29:52 -0700
>To: frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com
>Subject: Re: [Frameworks] query for those who teach filmmaking
>
>On Apr 18, 2014, at 15:26 , Tim Halloran 
><<mailto:televisual at hotmail.com>televisual at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>Slow=bad?!
>
>Bah.
>
>Tim
>
>
>It's nice to work slowly if you are trying to do so; it's insanely 
>annoying if you are not.
>
>Imagine if a painter put a stroke on the canvas and couldn't see it 
>for 30 seconds afterwards.  Not too many painters are striving to 
>achieve that workflow.
>
>;-)
>
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>On Apr 18, 2014, at 1:16 PM, "Flick Harrison" 
><<mailto:flick at flickharrison.com>flick at flickharrison.com> wrote:
>
>...will sloooooow you down, and that's bad creatively...
>
>- Flick
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