Hello Jason. I think the best way to begin is to tell people a little "about yourself, and I am of the opinion that to be the best person to do it but your own good. So ?
Hi Noel, thanks for the invitation. As for me, I make films. Not sure if this is anything of interest to people, but in this case, ask away.
You have a degree. Bioanalytical Sciences, is not it?
Yes.
As the cross came to be on of filmmaking approx. It does not seem that could be called "a natural evolution?"
People are urged to make the film while it is involved in all types of occupations and other areas. My case is far from unusual. I can not remember, think the exact date of Eureka, unfortunately, but I'm looking for movie-watching, at least towards the end of my studies, I think, perhaps through an interest in philosophy, I realized that bridges the sciences and the arts. An interestMovies> would be a number of years later, when I realized people actually do something.
I read somewhere that your award-winning documentary, Ballybough Court, 6 to take us hours to shoot, but almost 3 years. Can you tell us a little "what?
Yes, I will not go down in history as a whole is extremely confusing and boring, but it started out as an effective collaboration with three co-directors. This system really slows downeverything. If I only director I can make creative decisions in a few seconds and move on, but with three affected persons for meetings, debates, discussions, meetings and even more so for the simplest of decisions required. The project was designed to be shot a movie with a lot of other sections, some of whom were, but I have more than 6 hours of direct shoot Ballybough Court, where the old women playing bingo every Wednesday afternoon. Then, during the long post-productionthe other two on the left side. I finally took control of the only bits that really interested me, and ended as a short. But between recording and finishing it, I made ??a film that was more important to me, so that the short took a back seat as I find it difficult to share my attention. But having said all this, I am notoriously fast and notoriously slow when shooting movies in post production. It's something that needs to change, I mean, how many directors can claim to have contributed,their films literally die of old age before they are completed.
[Laughs] At one point she thought that a film is not only possible but also a viable alternative to participation in the competitive world of short films and trying to break through that way. When you reach this point?
Give more or less from start to film in reality, only one question was the right time. I looked at how peopleare directors in Ireland and I'm feeling particularly most people blindly continue to make short films, until someone is, somehow, give them a crack in a feature film. Yes, only very few succeed, but in my opinion is useless after a certain point. Yes, administrators can learn a lot from them in the early days, but you should know when to go forward and take control of their destiny. Also I am not ashamed to say I have little interest as a spectator or a director as a function of something other thanFilm, so that helped the problem.
That's why I'm born again, have yet to make a brief contrast?
Yes, I knew that I knew nothing, so it was very happy on many projects, such as low-and no-budget, to see how other people look at things. Mostly I play, I fell into an area that was, I was always the director, actors and camera people and learned a lot, but not how to do things. In connection with that I began to direct my work, especiallyshort documentaries, and after some time I felt I understood enough to have a stab at a function. So I looked at my bank account and had ? 5,000 or whatever parts, and then through my notebooks for writing stories or see what ideas I had flipped, it could save into a function with the sum of done, money. Eventually I narrowed it's a choice between further and other psychological thriller type movie, and then continue. I was interested in a little more, and I think I have more thanunderstand history.
I think this is a good time to hit one of the many elements that we want to make a movie, so to speak, you ask ? Jason Mehlhorn on the script ?
What to say? I do not know what I perceive as "script-cult" in which a director has to make you feel as perfect as possible to get involved on one side. Of course, a writer, I can take care of the script, but I want to, but I'm feeling pretty hyper-sensitive, if someone else hadwrote to me believe there is not an inherent obligation. But for the moment I try the script as a fine document free use, nearly falling back a bit when things are not improved. The exception is the dialogue as soon as it is locked in the tests, as I keep it right. This is my belief that the film is a visual medium, so that dialogue should be as low as possible and this control must be driven. If the actors improvisetend to talk more. I'm also a little "special to write for the right media, there is little I have more than one feature film script enjoy dialogue brick walls, embedded in a location and in real time. To me this scene is taken I see as totally useless. There are also a lot of scripts that are more similar to typical sitcom.
So the script is finished. And then?
Find real towns, actors and crew. The crew was only 5 peoplethe same number of players in the beginning. And the positions are very few, as you have seen ? a house for about 70% of the film and some scenes around the city to Dublin, for the most part to stop the film is based, and covered too claustrophobic. All pre-production was pretty stressful, because I never have been necessary to make a film like this before and to consider formally how easy everything was, took a toll on produce, especially with my time.
They are theAuthor believes that a director / sometimes no other choice, has its work to produce. So yes, you guessed it, Jason Mehlhorn on the production ?
Well, I need to produce only what I absolutely do not suffer. But if I do not do anything else, and by the time my films are not made. In this sense it is a necessary evil. To see my level of filmmaking [electronic-budget independent film] makers is good very difficult, but I think there's a way to alleviatethe difficulty of it. I made a series of one-day courses on legal and technical tasks involved in the production correctly.
I recommend a little "people who like to know the kind of thing, unless you know you can not be made aware by chance -. You know why someone is informed, or do not know the direction is something where there is a Personal learning curve, it is the opposite in a way, I do not think that can be taught. is, however, if someone forced to directsimultaneously and produce. I recommend you keep the script and then work to produce the simplest, because when things are too complex, you will be spending more time in the organization and the creative side suffer.
It 'from the social media and films clearly show your passion lies in European cinema. Who, if anyone, influenced your work?
Well, probably my three favorite directors Tarkovsky, Bresson andKieslowski, but there's none of their kind in my work, I'm not thinking. On the other hand, are heavily influenced by Jacques Tati, but probably would not even be in my top fifteen favorite directors. But I think I on the nature of the use of the composition of his recordings, editing very easy, am very visual storytelling, slow pace and the use of sound in movies influences. Although told that my first short film done before I was ever heard of some of these properties has TatiStill, I'm not sure.
Here's a question I want to have some "fun with the series, so please forgive me. As I sit here I imagine a lot of chin stroking, because the extent of asking the question, what kind of amused me. Describe yourself in one word?
Alive!
Backfire ? [laughs] Tell us about directing? What is your opinion means include special role, and if you are proposing is a good time to take the plunge? If there is aTime.
I think a good time to do the big step when you feel the time is right, but sometimes ignorance is a blessing. If I had known I would find it difficult I'm not sure if I continued when I did it. But, I have learned so much, that now makes a second aspect not scare me. As for the role ? I see a director try creative as the coordinator of the various sectors of the gel film.
She has workedStarofash / Tveitan Heidi Solberg, a Norwegian singer / musician, the music continues. This is a great result, I found more perfect? How could this happen?
Thank you. I was to hear written an album for them and I had only bought a few and when a song came on, the atmosphere and mood of what the movie so I was her record company sent. It was the first person on board, because I was not looking for someone in that moment I was still writing theScript into reality. Heidi is very versatile, but still a lot of paternity or the style and that was important for me. I wanted the music with a little "character I really did not very conventional thriller score that you are in the majority of low-budget movies a lot, you know, terrible things that sound good with the violin -. Held only very general and sound in bad taste. I also do not think it is source music or CD music library know crowbarred into scenes. I was actually going to gowithout music in the movie when I was not that the album got.
So, here is another opportunity for us to choose your own reason. Jason Mehlhorn on music (guess a controversial approach, so you should keep the feeling)
I'm not a musician and was my first time working with a composer, so I'm not sure the best person to answer a question in some philosophical way. I would recommend using the emotional level of every type of music at the same level ofthe emotions of the scenes, it seems obvious, but I see only very rarely in low-budget films. I think that is because the directors who find their characters more understanding for an audience to believe it.
You are sitting at home with your first feature film in the hard disk. They embark on post-production immediately or directors tend to take breaks between the three main areas of production?
Yes, I think it would break, but I have not, maybe one day of rest orsomething. There were cracks in the film is planned and forced on the road. It is a process of two years, so that full-time would madness.
Take us through the process of post-production? How do you approach? It is a standard path to follow or directors are all different in the approach road to this area?
I personally hate post production, so they would not willingly or voluntarily for other directors, which they do speak. But, I thinkThe process should be fairly similar. Modifies seen a rough cut, to stay put [in a state that is, if they changing stations], working all the sounds and color corrections. In theory it is simple enough. For me it was cutting blocks vision in the last year and I've walked some more noise and color as I walk. Sometimes these things are informed of the changes experienced.
Jason Mehlhorn edit.
I think if a director is also the editing is a good idea to get feedbackProceeding. The last thing a director can do to watch is how their films with any kind of objectivity.
Ok, let's go off film for a moment and refer to an earlier observation about your interest in philosophy. When I get you condense your life philosophy in three sets, depending on where your current beliefs were, what would you write? It's ok if the last sentence: "Noel shoot 'words in it.
My only philosophy of life is not a philosophy Life. Yes, to answer some other excuse, I fear ? I do not like talking about myself!
What was the hardest so far in the movie for you? She took some of the idea of a physical state of being, if it was something that you want to avoid next time, what would it be?
I want to avoid financing the next movie of mine! But that may not be possible. Seriously, I think that the need to manufactureFilm, "as I had before it a toll-free takes on the creative side of things said. I'll look to try to find someone though. As for the hardest, I'd probably still say, post-production.
Ballybough Court premiered the short documentary film at the underground cinema before collecting the award for Best Documentary of the month of September. There must be a proud moment when he has been recognized by others working in the fields of film production in Ireland?
It wasThe first award I have so yes, it was pretty exciting. Although I think the price was more with the theme of the film than anything necessarily have made ??as a director. It was simply a case of directing the camera in the right direction indeed. I've seen most of the other films in this category [Best Documentary] and was very surprised because they were all very good and at least two were funded.
Ireland facts for a moment. How do you think that the currenteconomic chaos here have an impact on the world of cinema in this country in the coming years?
Now, on the one hand, there is less money to spare, so this makes it difficult to film, but which are cheaper and more people are free to work on it! It's a double edged sword, but I think for any filmmaker to create your product with a very small budget is a good thing. I suspect that people who suffer the most, the directors of the higher chain uses the familiar to the luxury of many of their balance sheets. In my eyes it seems more independent films in the past two years that I never noticed before.
I was lucky enough to have seen again a few weeks. It was only after a few visions I could really appreciate the effort, but not what you do with the budget he had limited himself. He meant this kind of cinema, the micro-budget, a place in the wider> Cinemas practice, as is currently the case in Ireland?
Well, to be honest I think low-budget independent film is far better and more interesting, at least compared to the finances of the Irish Film Board. I think the general budget of less force managers to think more creatively to tell a story and I feel even more passionate about them. I've seen some amazing low-budget independent films last year by Ivan Kavanagh, Colin Downey, Donnacha Coffey, RouzbehRashidi and Michael Higgins, to name a few.
What again? Additional copies are available yet for the general public?
I'm going to get into the movie theaters for about a year and see what happens. They are still talking, but outside of film festivals I hope it is at least two public performances in Dublin in 2011. After a year I can see either approach to distributors, which make or distribute the filmI'm working on some traditional style, if not bigger. So, no matter what happens people will see in 12 months if you do not get anywhere else.
I know you have work in this area, Jason, both shoots and made ??in post production and is an area we pay special attention. You want a bit on the sound field to expand ?
Like I said before I think it was something that fell in and some are away from focusing onand write to stage, as it is primarily its purpose. However, I will continue to do for my projects and I will always be a special interest in the possibilities of sound in film. I also have the priority of the sound recording with the same degree of importance and attention, as the camera, almost unknown. Usually the audio department has all the others to solve and are sometimes treated very disrespectfully, but I take a much higher level. It is veryTo create a subtle and emotionally affects the public in a manner do not think that it can be done with a camera.
What happens next project wise?
The only certain thing is to write the screenplay for the thriller feature would only be selected if I had not chosen to go to continue with. It is just an exercise in writing for the most part, but if something really grabs me during the trial that it alone might want to do. Other than that I have two ideas for two functions, canmake for a very small budget, a thousand dollars or so. Both are quite experimental, but is really exciting for me at the moment. I like using a script much more flexible with more and more work with the flow, but not something to be chance or improvisation. After completing more I realized that many of my favorite things in the movie happy accidents or incidents, or ideas that came from the other were. I would like to see if I can create an environment to use these thingsmore.
Finally, Jason, I saw in the United Kingdom, the study of film into the curriculum occurs at an early stage. And 'seep slowly into the system here in Ireland. Do you have any advice for directors who would be taken into account shorts, crazy enough, in fact, felt to be a function?
I always follow your instinct, one of the only director is, in my opinion.
Good advice. Jason, it was a pleasure. I hope that next yearprovides both the Court and other Ballybough the attention they deserve.
Well thank you very much and thanks for Noel took the time to interview me.
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