2. The Production | Creative Process | 10.05.2017
The Production
10.05.2017
I wrote a post about concepts a while back (you can find that here). To follow that up, I wanted to make a post about production.
I can only write about what my personal experience is, and I am painfully aware that my knowledge is limited. I wanted to write this prerequisite to the actual post as a proof of acknowledgement of this fact.
So, after days, weeks, months of chewing over the idea, letting it simmer down to its bare essentials, grinding it, questioning it’s every move and making itself as itself as it can be, you come to a point where you need to do the scary task of production.
Production will never be easy; I don’t think. To me, it’s one of the more exciting and yet terrifying parts of the creative process. Up to this point, it has been you and your concept, all alone, no one to judge or hurt it but you. It feels warm and safe, but you just can’t stay like that forever.
At some point, you have to let the birds leave the nest, let the concept, the script the…whatever, be seen. It’s immensely vulnerable. After all, that is a bit of you that you are showcasing to the world.
After being that close to a concept for so long, it can be incredibly hard to look at it with sober eyes. That’s why it’s so immensely crucial to get different perspectives on it. They weave out its flaws, make you see it’s imperfections and give you a more dimensional look on your work.
You have to put your brave face on, let other people touch the concept and sculpt it into what it was ultimately meant to be. Your idea will change, it will look different from what it did in your head. It’ll never be able to uphold the standard that you have.
That’s the curse of creation; it’ll never be good enough.
