Yes, we are hard on him, but we keep telling him to go out and shoot something.
He finally does post an actual, recent project which gives us more than a hypothetical on which to base feedback and it gives Ryan a firm place to start learning by examining his own mistakes.
You did say the most important part of what he needs. "He needs to start learning" and "examining his own mistakes".
A little more after this one.
Let's get back to being supportive of each other
Lets say he's addicted to drugs. Would it be supportive of others to tell him, "It's ok, you keep on using drugs" ??? No of course not. It's enabling.
You guys are a good chunk of his problem. It's clear to virtually everyone here that he needs to stop with the questions, go out and make films to learn. If you stopped answered his mostly stupid, time wasting, excuse ridden questions, he'd be forced to either shoot or if he's trolling, give up.
I work a few weeks here, a few weeks there over the last year and a half dealing with groups of disadvantaged people who are down on their luck and we use our filming work as part of a method to help them get back on their feet.
So while I do appreciate you saying we need to be supportive of each other, what you're doing is the exact opposite of what he needs. You need to stop supporting his addiction which has him in the hole he has dug. You need to start thinking about what he needs to get out of his hole. He needs a routine of doing the hard work, the routine of working out problems for himself and a routine of self analysis. Support in the form of enabling is the last thing he needs.
Back to parts of what he needs. He also needs to listen to others with more experience and learn to filter out the rubbish. These BS imaginary fiends in which he guides his forum questions needs to stop if he has any chance.
He needs to shoot. He needs the light bulb moments to start dropping.
Honestly, I thought is was decent, especially for the amount of experience you have.
Good for 6 years of experience?
This is enabling. Encouraging him to the point that it's ok to spend so much time on film making and only have 2 projects in 6 years.
Have you considered that part of the reason he's only completed 2 projects in those 6 years is due to the enabling on this forum?
The client wants to see the building process and may not want to hurry it up.
If anything, in its current form, it needed to breathe more. Unless this is a piece of a bigger picture, deciding to only edit as a montage was the error. That was the failing decision point. Every decision after that point becomes moot.
As a draft and he's looking for opinions. He relies on the forum for every move
That's pretty much it in a nutshell.
