Rough Theatre Response

As I understood Rough Theatre, it is simply using what is given to you, and making the best of it. Maybe a little cliche of a description, but in essence that is what I gathered to be the lesson. It's funny that we talked about this in class. My group for out 3D project went through a little bit of an argument dealing with similar notions. We kept getting more and more collocated with our ideas and set-up, that I finally had to say "Look, instead of trying to add more stuff in all this, why don't we just make the best film we can with out spending any more money, and any more time than necessary." I am all for making a product you can be proud of, but there comes a certain time when you have to step away from the "possibilities", and focus on what you have in front of your own two eyes. In fact, just as this article suggests, using the simplest of materials can actually create a more meaningful product. No, it may not be a hollywood summer blockbuster, but in the end that is what makes it so amazing. It gives the product character. many times the film industry is bogged down with many individuals forgetting that there is a certain romanticism in the independent film. It is so easy to get caught in the wonders of thousands of dollars worth of gear, that we forget how film started. The very root of this art form is the avant-guard experimentalist, the one who created something never seen before. Sure people pay good money to produce and see a popular movie, just as they to produce and listen to a popular song, but the one that stick out in history are the ones that set the bar a little higher. The ones that history preserves are the ones that took what they had, no matter how little and showed the world just how much that little bit could make.