Art and craft are just words and what you think of those words is your own thoughts. I could say the exact opposite and it could be true. Example. Craft is fleeting. Art is the unexplainable talent to convey and share true emotions with pictures and sound. You can practice your craft and be technical perfect results and it still can suck. I would watch or listen to something made by someone with true vision then someone who spent years working on proper colour and sound techniques or playing the notes as fast as they can. So how's that?
This is a hilarious thread. But as I still laugh, I want to tell you that I do agree with your sentiment. Nothing is what anybody really says it is. It is what you can make your audience feel is all that really counts.
Here's how I feel about your film. If my mother watches a video clip by that dude, Philip Bloom, she'll think it's art. She'll think "oh look at that beautiful sunset, etc." To me it's just a bunch of sliding shots.
So is your film art to my mother? I don't know. But when I saw it, all I know is that I saw no real effort. Probably the most amount of time was spent on the song. But your film as a whole didn't have any meaning for me. So you couldn't connect to me. If you connected with it yourself, that's great, but I'm assuming you want to make a film where some other people will feel it's the greatest thing they've ever watched. I'm not sure your film comes off like that. It looks like a film anybody on youtube could have made.
I'm not trying to discourage you. I'm trying to say you should be self critical. Your style is your style. But to a lot of people on this board, it's not a new style. It just looks unrefined. It looks like my style when I started out. It looks like something we've all seen and done already when we were new. The audience is sophisticated. They've seen a lot of stuff. They've seen a lot of youtube. Your stuff looks youtube-y, not something I'd catch at a theater.
I'm still amused by this thread.
Edit: If I come off like a di*k, I promise it's not my intention. I'm just trying to say that you should be self-critical. You don't have to listen to everything people say on these boards. But most of them are trying to help.
