Experience or Ambition?

This thought crossed our minds as we were considering the production of STNL.

People attach to one another from shared experience. Why not bond over mutual ambition?

Shared experience is the past nostalgia, of which you are powerless to change except through a time travel machine, but then that messes up everything in the future (refer to Back to the Future 1, 2, and 3.)

Mutual ambition is the future you imagine. Ambition is a nice word. We focus too much on shared experience at the expense of mutual ambitions. Shared experience is so limiting, and more a situation of timing, luck, and place than the work you do. That's mutual ambition.

Consider it, Orlandont

Starting and Shooting with 1 cast member

This is a simple consideration of the way things are done and why they are done that way and why you don't have to follow that in Orlandont.

Everyplace else, you preproduce a movie for a few weeks to a few years, then cast everyone involved, gather production troops, and then march for 11 to 20 days to compile a feature film.

In Orlandont, things are different. For one, why do you have to cast EVERY role when some characters, actually most characters, don't interact with one another? If actors don't share screen time, why worry? Catch as you, cast as you can.

Next, given that ANYONE can own the means of HD production for $1200, and means of post production for under $2000, the marathon of filmmaking makes no sense.

If you own the gear, you can work with the RIGHT person and accomodate their availability. Everyone expects actors to bow to the production. The production should fit the actors, who have outside lives and pursuits. It can work. The reason why it doesn't work is because that's not how "real" movies are made. However, if you have $2 million to make a movie, do it that way. It's more cost effective I'm sure.

But if you had $2 million you wouldn't be in Orlandont.
Greetings, Orlandont