Rough Theatre Blog

I do think that what we do in this class is very similar to the idea of the rough theatre. The rough theatre is still theatre just done in a whole different way, and in class we do film in a whole different way. We create film in more of a spur of the moment way. Most of the things we do are not planned out far in advance. We aren’t making films in a big studio, just like the rough theatre is not performing in a huge amphitheatre. What we do it more for fun than anything else. Most of the things we do would not go over well in any other class or setting. This is because it’s not the normal film techniques, and the things we make in this class could never be shown at a movie theater. People would wonder what they were watching and it gets angry and leaves. We could maybe show our work to other film students who understand that we are doing this for fun and its just kind of random and spontaneous, not to be taken too seriously. That is what is fun about this class, because in four hours we got to create a one minute 16mm film and develop it ourselves. This class reminds me of when I was little running around with my parents video camera, setting it up and having me and my friends improvise a whole scene, for sheer enjoyment. If I showed this to anyone else outside of my friends they would hate it. The reason we enjoy it because we experienced making it, we experienced the spontaneous joy of filmmaking. Not too many people can understand that. It’s called rough because its not straight forward it’s different, we don’t do things the way normal filmmakers do, we are rough filmmakers.