Bored while showing your movies?

dlevanchuk

dlevanchuk

When you show your films to other people, do you get bored watching your own work?

whenever somebody asks me to show them my short film i get excited, but at the same time i think "f**k! I have to sit through this again!" ....

Is that normal to be sick of your own movies after showing them hundreds of times?



P.S. I'd probably be the worst father ever.. "Ugh, child, leave me alone! So tired of your face!" :rolleyes: :lol:
 
well yea. But when I'm at work or have a couple of friends over - you can't just leave them by themselves and be all weird about it..

Friend: "Oh, you made another short film? Is it on youtube?"
Me: "Sure, i'll email/text you the link because i'm sick of watching it over and over and over."
 
I played with the Del Vikings for seven (7) years. I played Come Go With Me and Whispering Bells approximately 200 times each year - that's playing the same songs One Thousand Four Hundred (1,400) times. The singers have been singing them since 1957.

Okay, now complain... :D :lol: :D
 
Alcove Audio said:
I played with the Del Vikings for seven (7) years. I played Come Go With Me and Whispering Bells approximately 200 times each year - that's playing the same songs One Thousand Four Hundred (1,400) times. The singers have been singing them since 1957.

Okay, now complain... :D :lol: :D
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You're a freaking trooper :lol:
 
I don't have that problem, but I have a healthy ego. I love my work! Every time I listen to something I do, I'm constantly picking it apart...and also enjoying it.

But maybe just focus more on your friends' reactions. You know the beats you were trying to hit. See if they react the way you want them to. MARKET RESEARCH!!!
 
Don't take this personally, but if you're bored of your own movie (and a short one at that), that's a bad sign. You ought to aim for piece YOU can be entertained with over and over again. I wouldn't dare show a film I'm bored of to anyone.
 
JoshL said:
I don't have that problem, but I have a healthy ego. I love my work! Every time I listen to something I do, I'm constantly picking it apart...and also enjoying it.

But maybe just focus more on your friends' reactions. You know the beats you were trying to hit. See if they react the way you want them to. MARKET RESEARCH!!!
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Dude, you took the words out of my mouth! I don't have any problem enjoying the piece I've created, while simultaneously looking for flaws I never noticed before, and gauging the audience reaction. The only time it's not fun is when my audience is obviously not enjoying it (but I still take it as a valuable learning experience).

Guerrilla, your comments would be perfectly valid, if not for the fact that D-Lev is making awesome movies!
 
I feel you, sir!

It's the editing process that really takes the interest out of me and I end up seeing the film at least 100 times. Then once it's done and you're happy enough with the product and what to leave it there, everyone expects you to sit and watch it with them. I agree, I get bored doing this.

@GA: That's nonsense. There is no film ever made that I could watch 100s times within a month and not get bored of. I think if you're not slightly sick of the sight of your own film after the editing process then it perhaps suggests that you're not looking closely enough at its flaws.
 
It depends. I'm not really interested in sitting through a screening with a friend -- would rather socialize with the friend and let him/her watch it him/herself.

Love screening my work for a large group, since I'm watching the audience as much as the film.
 
In a word: no.

I get a little sick of watching the same 3 seconds over and over and over for editing. But once it's done? I always love my babies.
 
Once it's complete and screens in front of an audience, I would rather never have to see it or think about it ever again, BUT that's not how it works.

I can relate to Alcove a little too. I fronted the same band for 20 years. There are songs I have probably sung over 1000 times. It's a little different though because you're driven by the energy of that audience rocking out in front of you.
 
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I know the feeling: after a 100 times you know what happens, you've discovered everything you would have done differently. (The fun part is watching your audience.)
If you are still as exited as the first time you watched it you are a narcist or suffering from dementia ;)
I don't say you can't be proud anymore.
Getting bored of repetition is not the same hating your own work :p

Offcourse you should aim te make something you can watch over and over again.
 
I don't watch my own videos much at all after they're done, maybe once a year or so - except when I'm showing them to other people. When that's the case I'm not really watching the film itself, I'm watching the people I'm showing it to to see how they react to the stuff in the film.

Kholi said:
What is this "Show to other people" you speak of?

You people actually let others see your work!?!?!
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Isn't that the point? And considering you're going to kill them anyway as soon as they've finished watching the film, it's not like they're going to go tell anyone if your movie sucks. Right? I'm not the only one who does that, am I?
 
Yea I get this when I make a film and its not so much im bored of it more that i hate re watching the imperfections of my work! Even tho no one normally notices... the problem with being a perfectionist when it comes to film is im never satisfied with what I have done for more than a week lol. Both a curse and a blessing because im allays improving.
 
I have found after a year or so you become more accepting of your own work. I can go back and look at older stuff and while I cringe at some of it I also find it wasn't as bad as I remembered it.
 
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