From the files of “lazing around vaguely ill watching things on the internet”:
One of the reasons I wanted to start this blog thing in the first place was so that I, the independent filmmaker, could share my experiences in the wide world of movie production, and hopefully let others learn from my triumphs and mistakes.
Hasn’t panned out so well. Writing screenplays is hard, yo.
That doesn’t mean that I can’t point out important lessons for all of us, and that we can’t all learn from other people’s mistakes together. In this case, I have an important lesson for anyone who is thinking about directing music videos:
Do precisely none of the things they did in Toto’s “Africa” video.