Thursday and The Labsters are making a much bigger sound now. The harmony in SO is now beginning to gel and is starting to sound emotional. Major Tom is leading the way from beyond the stratosphere, the basses too are sounding silky, the tenors are well on the way, the altos are rich and clear, and the sopranos have found the high e and ping it out big time. Everyone is Oohing and Aaahhhing all over the place, and the space ship glides upwards with all the excitement of a NASA launch. There’s a little more harmony to learn yet, but I was really pleased today that at last we have a good blend of commitment and accuracy!
Very impressed today with the level of work going on. It seems dwelling on the impossibility of the tasks has been brushed aside and everyone is going for it.
My own afternoon was divided between two projects, both of which took big, and brave, steps in responses to the work we did together. That is enormously gratifying in itself, but it’s even more rewarding to see the groups at the end of the day buzzing with ideas and questions in response to work they’ve done under their own steam.
I know this intrepid approach extends across all the other projects teams too. So keep going Labsters it won’t be long before the outside world will pressure you all for more conventional “value for money results now!!” Everyone is grabbing the opportunity – provided by FilmLab’s more rarified creative environment – to stretch themselves, go the extra mile, and find those imaginative insights that add depth to the work, but can only be achieved by putting oneself through the mill.
I’m thinking we might attack the Russian National Anthem soon. Pa Rooskiye, Kanyeshna! (In Russian, of course!) I don’t think there’s a challenge I could put before the Labsters that they couldn’t meet just at the moment.
Da Skorova!
