After a week of hush, hush knitting I have completed my order for the film company. Working for the film was an amazing and somewhat stressful experience. Everything is to deadline for shooting and when deadlines aren’t met, money is lost–so chop, chop.
I realize that this does not fit into my fun –hey let’s knit on the mountains–style, but you need to shake things up once in a while and in THIS case, I did enjoy the challenge of knitting to someone else’s vision.
What I can say…..
I knit 5 hats.
It is a feature film.
I had to deliberately knit mistakes into the hat.
I will be doing more film and costume work as a result of this commission. It is amazing what different directions your business and life can take if you are open to them. Last year I posted that under no circumstances would I take on custom work and that I was only going to do what I wanted.
Putting that statement in writing almost had the fibre universe challenging me.
Universe – “under no circumstances, Carmen?
Me- “definitely not, I’m doing my own thing universe”.
Universe- “so if I told you that Jesus needed a custom shroud for his return to earth you would not knit it?”
Me- “not a chance, universe, I work for myself”
Universe- “okay then, so you don’t want to meet this film industry heavy who can put your work on the map?”
Me -” umm, err, well, one commission can’t hurt—-feature film you say, with handsome star who I adore….umm, err…..okay, just this once”.
So, I have broken my own rule, buckled under, and basically have whored myself out for the potential fibre fame. I would be ashamed, if I wasn’t so star struck and exhilarated right now.
Sandi picked up the hats last night and said they were bang on to the director’s vision. I am thrilled.
Back to production for next months show (wherein Pearl and I will probably be knitting on a mountain or at Prospect Point. The view is fantastic.
Sorry guys, still under wraps for a while…I will definitely let you know.
Ya let us know what the film is so we can _SHARE_ it. 🙂
Super cool! How exciting. Congrats!
When can you tell me what the film is called so I can tell all my friends to go see the film with my mentors beautiful handiwork in it? Perhaps that was a run-on sentence.
How cool is that?!!
Carmen wrote:
"I had to deliberately knit mistakes into the hat."
Happy new year (;) sci-fi fan, speaking of mistakes, and the genre, have you seen/downloaded the upcoming 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' workprint leak yet?
I have, and it has all kinds of amusing unfinished workprint-style qualities to it. I wonder if the leak was deliberate.
"So, I have broken my own rule… and… whored myself… I would be ashamed, if I wasn't so star struck…"
Oh dear…
Well… knock yourself out.
There's an information-war going on that includes the film industry. Science fiction turned fact. Turned inside out.
BTW, I arrived from overseas Jan 31st, and, lo and behold, what did I see from my taxi window, but you, ostensibly knitting yourself into a frenzied trance at Blendz on Granville and Broadway.
Holli wrote:
> I can't wait to see your hats on
> the big screen, so I can say, 'I
> know whose knitting that is!"
This kind of reality is changing pretty fast.
Perhaps Carmen's film is a sci-fi about a woman and her friends torn and snared between changing forms of digital realities and fictions.
Can’t come up with words to describe how incredibly cool I think that is!!! I will go see the movie just to see your name in the credits at the end (and yes, I actually do stay and read the credits!)
Yes. Details. We need to know what movie to look for!!
Ok, so what is the movie? 🙂
I can’t wait to see your hats on the big screen, so I can say, “I know whose knitting that is!”
I’m very curious about the ‘mistakes’ you had to knit in too.
I’ll go see the movie.