{"id":19094,"date":"2015-01-13T10:50:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T15:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mediastorm.com\/blog\/?p=19094"},"modified":"2015-01-13T10:50:43","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T15:50:43","slug":"for-the-sake-of-the-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/13\/for-the-sake-of-the-story\/","title":{"rendered":"For the Sake of the Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019ve been making movies for a while now. Along the way I\u2019ve seen some things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An $800 wireless mic destroyed in a sword fight<\/li>\n<li>Horribly early mornings<\/li>\n<li>Relentless traffic<\/li>\n<li>No vegetarian options except fried cheese, four days in a row<\/li>\n<li>Self-doubt<\/li>\n<li>Lawyers and threats of suits<\/li>\n<li>Layovers and missed flights<\/li>\n<li>Sickness, not limited to: colds, the flu, vomiting and food poison<\/li>\n<li>Exhaustion<\/li>\n<li>Yelling and screaming and hurt feelings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I say this not because I believe myself to be some kind of martyr. I am certainly not. For the most part, I sit at a desk these days, going home each night to my wife and dogs. Others have given far more.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I write this because in the end, your production problems are hurdles. Unless of course you\u2019re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ze9-ARjL-ZA\" target=\"_blank\">Warner Herzog<\/a> and you\u2019re trying to move a river boat over a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/watch\/166742\" target=\"_blank\">mountain<\/a>. But for the rest of us mortals, these obstacles are a footnote. They are obstacles we endure to get the job done. And there will always be obstacles.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">At the end of the day, there is really only one question worth asking\u2013only one that your audience cares about\u2013did you do everything possible for the sake of the story?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been making movies for a while now. Along the way I\u2019ve seen some things: An $800 wireless mic destroyed in a sword fight Horribly early mornings Relentless traffic No vegetarian options except fried cheese, four days in a row Self-doubt Lawyers and threats of suits Layovers and missed flights Sickness, not limited to: colds, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":15742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-storytelling","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}