The Rough Theatre

Brooke discusses the theatre art form in an interesting way. His perspective shows that theatre has a rough edge to it and art can be created and appreciated regardless of its polished quality.  It seemed that Brooke's was sort of favoring the side of creativity with limited resources and favors that quality over any planned architectural framework with sharp edges and fine points well paid for.  I recently had discussion with a friend of mine, today in fact, and my friend was saying how one-hundred dollars is plenty to do a good music video with if you have the right crew and creative input for the final product.  I agree and disagree with this statement.  I agree with the fact that a good film needs to have good content, but that is normally with any film.  There are definitely examples of big budget films where the special effects received more attention than the character and story development.  Content is absolutely critical, and the creative input and level of improvising to meet a creative goal is a skill heavily desired and appreciated in the film world.  But, the big problem I had with the statement is that, no matter how creative you may be, if you do not have the budget to achieve the look or shot you are trying to achieve, then there is a degree to which how far creativity can take you before budget will tell the film maker that they cannot do what they intended and must re-evaluate their creative decisions and settle for less.  I do not like the idea for settling for less, and James Cameron also did not like this idea when he decided to wait ten years to make Avatar until technology caught up to provide the look he intended.  Because even Cameron knew that no matter how creative you are, and even in this case no matter how much money as well, the technology was not available at the time to complete the look he wanted, and when it became available he did not mind spending the money to make his dream come true which paid off greatly in the end.  I understand the article describes to us that you cannot recreate creativity and hard work, nor can you just buy it, but there is potential to make it happen with less resources.  This definitely translates well for this class' activities.  In the end, I like knowing what I can create with my imagination, but I prefer to also have the budget to pay for the pretty look I might desire at times if I want the polished look.  Because no matter how much creativity you have, you may be remembered for that creativity and the final product's quality with consideration to a meager budget, but nobody can say it will look as good as a two-hundred million dollar film.  The way I see it, give that creative person two-hundred million dollars worth of a budget and the may use only one-hundred million and create an amazing product that their usual fifty-thousand would not have been able to make.  We may not have seen the same shots on the lower budget because they would have decided to trash the idea because it isn't affordable, but in this case, they can use their creative sense and combine it with their capital assets and create a masterpiece.