{"id":74,"date":"2008-05-12T22:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T04:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coryedwards.com\/?p=74"},"modified":"2008-05-12T22:14:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T04:14:00","slug":"remember-the-customer-the-power-of-fans-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coryedwards.com\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"Remember The Customer (The Power of Fans 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"frame-outer  \" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\"><span><span><span><span><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_NJAdsOv7uNo\/SCkhX6UC2WI\/AAAAAAAAAKU\/VgrA4FvxvBQ\/s1600-h\/Line+of+Fists.jpg\"><img  src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_NJAdsOv7uNo\/SCkhX6UC2WI\/AAAAAAAAAKU\/VgrA4FvxvBQ\/s400\/Line+of+Fists.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5199723939449985378\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>So this is the flip side of my previous rants, where I must admit something: while I stand on my instincts as a filmmaker, I am dead if I stop listening to my audience. \u00a0If I think a screenplay of mine is clear on a story point, and then a reader tells me they didn&#8217;t get it at all, whose fault is that? The reader? Nope. It&#8217;s up to me to rewrite that script until my reader fully understands the story. I can get frustrated that nobody caught the first version &#8212; <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">my<\/span> version &#8212; but the common man is the guy who is buying (or not buying) the tickets. My art is not only what I intend it to be. Ultimately, my art is <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">also<\/span> what my audience perceives it to be.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I have every intention of driving a project with the fuel of my personal vision, but I am not above tailoring that vision to be better received. Nobody wants a smaller audience for their films. Nobody. I don&#8217;t care how much of an indie autuer they claim to be, if they say they don&#8217;t care about getting a larger audience, they&#8217;re lying. Film is a popular medium. And as a filmmaker, my work will only thrive as my audience grows.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Filmmaking is a constant learning process. And the best way an artist can learn is to swallow his or her pride and fully absorb the audience&#8217;s honest reactions, good and bad. But it ain&#8217;t easy.\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this is the flip side of my previous rants, where I must admit something: while I stand on my instincts as a filmmaker, I am dead if I stop listening to my audience. \u00a0If I think a screenplay of mine is clear on a story point, and then a reader tells me they didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coryedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coryedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coryedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coryedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coryedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coryedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coryedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coryedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coryedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}