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September 25, 2007

Writing in a vacuum

I haven't been posting much lately for reasons I have stated in other articles, principally that the film is now in the hands of it's audience and has a life of it's own. It no longer really belongs to us but to you instead now, so my job is kind of done on the blogging front so far as this particular endeavour is concerned.

This no better exemplified than by something that happened to me today.

It is a very odd feeling creating all this stuff - photos, videos, witterings etc - and pumping them out into the world for anyone who is interested. This is not a commissioned piece of work with a preordained audience but an experiment to discover if this medium (blogging) has a place in the world so far as our medium of film is concerned and that brings with it certain anxieties.

However, I'm pleased to say that I think this experiment has been vindicated on a number of levels. I always suspected that it would do good things for the film; for example, there has been a sustained buzz about the movie for a long time, longer than I think we anticipated and I think that can be in no small part due to the constant stream of new information about our progress and exploits over the past 18 months. But there are other points of impact that I really never anticipated.

Principally, I have been most surprised by the depth of feeling that has been engendered in some of the followers of the blog and what it has meant to them to be part of the journey of Hallam Foe. A few regular readers have sent me wonderful heart felt messages explaining that this has been a genuinely meaningful experience. I could never have predicted that would be a product of our work here. One hopes that will always be a part of the film itself but I don't think that people would expect that of other aspects of the filmmaking process. This is, after all, a very serious and very cynical, even if very passionate, business.

Today I received a present from a keen follower of our blog and movie, someone who hasn't seen the film yet but that has been keeping a keen eye on our progress. With the present was a card saying 'thank you' for what we have been doing.

In return I'd just like to say a big thank you to him (you know who you are) and that I'm delighted that people have been able to derive so much from what we've been doing. It is those amongst you that take the time and energy to engage that really make this side of things worthwhile and make me realise that I am not writing in vacuum and that people can see that our writing a blog is not a cynical exercise in movie promotion but a real effort to share as much as possible about our beautiful nightmare.

Thank you all for your support, enjoy your film.

All best,

The Family Foe

Posted by colin kennedy at September 25, 2007 2:29 PM

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