Have you ever had something that you were passionate towards with little to no other interest towards it from anyone?
For me, the main proportions of my taste in movies have been with the popular mainstream. The modern blockbusters of spectacular entertainment, if you will. Yet, as of recently, a lot of movies released under some of my favorite genres have not been as well received as the more beloved from back in the day.
As there are so many fictional works to be offered these days, it is becoming more difficult for new works to find an audience. Chances are that most people have already seen movies in that same genre execute the ideas already presented in these newer works. There are only so many stories you can tell, and ideas that you can execute in different ways; the fact remains that through various reasons, people are becoming pickier and pickier by the day.
Another issue lies in the competition that other new movies just simply, for whatever reason, seem to find greater success overall. Word of mouth is much more accessible to people these days through various media sources that report on the movies. Those sources’ prejudged notions are brainwashing people to have a certain perspective on the movie, even months before it is released.
So what then is a guy to do to support his interest in these new movies instead of just seeing them (potentially) fail?
Simple. It’s all up to me! I use my love and interest towards these movies to help them do well in any way that I can!
Among the many things that I do to support my movies is something that is often overlooked by many: simple conversation. It may be me, but it seems like the people of my age and older do not seem to want to talk about things that they are passionate towards because many others perhaps do not share their passion in these interests. The trick with this is to express your love, regardless.
Who knows? Maybe you will help people get interested in these movies when they initially were not. Help is the key word. As I learned from one of these not-so-popular movies (You’re So Cupid!, if you are interested. You’ve probably never even heard of it), you cannot “make” people do things, but you can “help” them to do it. Its not enough to just simply barf all information and opinion on someone. You need to connect to them.
One example of this would be to help them feel the way that you feel. This can be established through use of snappy, but descriptive words, and if applicable, any terms or subjects that specifically relate to the person you are trying to persuade. For example, in order to persuade someone out of the normal interest group to see Fantastic Four, you may wanna mention that it has Miles Teller, Kate Mara or any other actor that they may know or be interested in (that specific example worked for my sister, by the way).
As we live in a digital age, the more common way of “talking” is through social networking posts. There you still have to establish a connection with your audience. As is the norm for moi, I am often communicating to people that I do not really know. A lot of the time I have to make posts to Google+ (follow me here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+SuperMoviemaster21/posts) communities that relate to my topic, as well as on Twitter (https://twitter.com/21Hanks), and pretty much any forum site that will allow discussion of any topic. Whenever I post on these sites I use clear, coherent wording and the snappy but descriptive dialect mentioned earlier. By following this tactic, I get way more success than simply just posting unlively phrases. To use an example of those, you might think of the lame “check it out”, or what I have commonly been criticized as being: rambly, repetitive and wordy without seemingly giving much thought to what I am trying to say. Some (many at times) may not always agree with me, but to quote Michael Arndt (who wrote Toy Story 3, a very important movie in my life by the way), writing with heart and passion “doesn’t guarantee that your writing will be good, but it will be, at the least, emotionally honest and true”.
That last line there is main thing. Whenever you are yourself and perform actions that are true to yourself, you will find success. Doing the opposite is what brings about complete failure. Why would you ever want to be sub-parr?
Whenever you fail to establish heart in what you are trying to do, no one will care. Some may not always agree with you, but they are more likely to listen and give consideration if they see that you are truly committed and compassionate to your goals rather then being desperate and relentless with them.
This method of communication is key to whatever thing I do in my projects, be it when talking to people, digital or not, or more with ambitious creative projects such as video. There is not much on my You Tube Channel now, but if you follow me, there will be a lot up there soon enough at this link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQX605zld2EHcPbUw59jfsw
If you were interested, a lot of the inspiration for the construction of these projects came from a similar one featured on the following You Tube Channel, known as TheKHRP: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheKHRP. Any one person can learn from this guy’s work, regardless of whether they are interested in said project or pursing any sort of ambition.
As such, I encourage anyone who reads this to take these structural ideas into account for their own. In the meantime, stay tuned for more posts on the particular projects coming soon.