Shared Creation Projects

There comes a point in many creative projects when everything seems to come to a halt. It is a totally languid time. We’ve hit it a few times in the making of Consumed and we’re in such a time at the moment. It seems to go a little like this.

When things take a long time it is impossible to keep everyone involved busy all the time, without being busy over aspects of life take over from the project you are involved. The habit of doing what you were doing is lost and so getting back into the zone of doing what you were doing.

So if a break occurs galvanizing everyone back to work can be hard. Its not a question of commitment, its a question of trying to make time to do something different. Remember once you stop doing something it stops being what you are doing and then becomes something to add onto your life.

In a sense I think it means this - manically working on something of a creative nature is great. Pausing is ok, but the longer you pause the harder it is get going again. Its like Newtons First Law of Motion - a creative project keeps running unless an external force is applied. The external force can be anything that causes a pause.

Pauses are the enemy. You have to keep moving.

So if you are embarking on a long and large endeavour make sure that you can keep people busy. That increases your chance of success.

This may leave you wondering where that leaves Consumed. Well we are in pause, but all the signs are that it will take off again. The plan is to hire a location that we now well for all exterior and some interior shots. Its all a matter of agreeing on dates to work to.

In the meantime we are in a lull a sort of creative conservation of energy, but one that is the calm before the storm.

Tags: Creative, Inertia, Consumed, Film