Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Blog, page 258
February 7, 2012
RE: FEATURE FILM
Some pretty big news was announced today — I'm...
Some pretty big news was announced today — I'm gonna direct a movie I wrote! It may be the biggest announcement of my life and I'm super excited about it. :oD
I wanted to take a minute and discuss what this news means for us at hitRECord. This feature project is going to be a traditionally produced film. One day I aspire to do an entire feature film using hitRECord.org's open-collaborative creative process. However, I think it is important to have experience directing a feature in the traditional way. I do hope the hitRECord.org community will be involved in this project some how, and I'll discuss that soon when the time comes…
But, what does this mean for hitRECord while I'm directing this feature? Well, we've been planning for this internally for quite a while. hitRECord has grown a lot as a production company. And we've outgrown the infrastructure we built two years ago for hitRECord to operate with. We've proven ourselves — creatively and businesss-wise. So, IT IS TIME TO EXPAND! Wheras it has been a mostly full-time job for our team, it'll now be a very full-time full time job for our team. I'm going to be hiring more people (we're job creators!) and I think we're going to be able to operate more efficiently.
In the past, hitRECord has had more opportunity than we've been capable of taking on - and that's a good thing. It's time to expand to help realize our full potential. We've been planning hitRECord's growth for a while now to coincide with my feature film project. What we're doing here at hitRECord won't falter, it will accelerate. In the coming weeks, we'll get into the specifics about how everything will work. I can't wait to share some of this stuff with you.
I was telling Jared yesterday that the work we've been doing here at hitRECord — the constant collaboration and creative output — makes me feel like I'm trained and ready for the marathon that is directing a feature film. Thank you for that.
And, thanks again.
The best is yet to come…
J
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS — The Song!
We made this little KNOW YOUR...
We made this little KNOW YOUR RIGHTS 'Schoolhouse Rock-style' video with our friends the Gregory Brothers in collaboration with the ACLU.
The ACLU wrote this nice little post about the video here. CHECK IT OUT!
The video played nicely at Sundance, now let's take it to the masses! Please share with your friends! :oD
J
banksystreetart:
WARNING: 1 in 5 teenagers will experiment with...
"I found this in your room. We need to talk."
February 5, 2012
Sharp cartoon pointing out how the principles of socialism (in...
Sharp cartoon pointing out how the principles of socialism (in other words, sharing) benefit the NFL.
leftcoastjane: In honor of Superbowl Sunday.
zooeydeschanel:
Look who else @tennesseebunny and I ran into...
Look who else @tennesseebunny and I ran into last night! @hitRECordjoe ! (Taken with instagram)
Life is good :oD
February 4, 2012
My boy's gonna kill it, watch!! #SNL
My boy's gonna kill it, watch!! #SNL
Engagement Chicken? #evilbooks
Engagement Chicken? #evilbooks
February 3, 2012
THE REGULARITY #58 (02/03/12)
The Regularity is here! And I...
The Regularity is here! And I wanna give a huge bravo and congratulations to all of us for a successful Sundance 2012! We did it and they loved it. But most importantly, I am very proud of all the records that we made, they are all wonderful they make a great evening of short movies.
Now, as we always do, let's start remixing all the live records from the show! And let's keep the ball rolling on our RE: INDEPENDENCE collab. Use the discussions from the show and combine it with other work in the collab and let's keep making art regarding independence.
I also want to spotlight a couple new Collaborations.
JELLY BABIES is a great fucking idea guys! Composers, hop on board and write some music to Day Glo's incredible VO of Metaphorest'stext. Illustrators, keep up the good work so animators can come along and start making a short film with your characters. And Screenwriters, let's begin adapting Metaphorest's text into a screenplay.
CITY AUTOPSY - check wirrow's new collab! Walk around your city and find treasure, as he says, it's open to interpretation!
And finally, it's a new year and I feel that this is the first time in a while where we have the breathing room to focus on improving our company. We have grown, in fact, we have out grown what we use to be and I am making plan for HITRECORD to accommodate that growth.
If 2011 was as killer as it was, just imagine what 2012 has in store for us.
Thank you all for being a part of it.
Thanks again.
J
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