The Creative Cycle and the Filmmaker's Brain

Is filmmaking art, technology, or business? The answer is, yes. Film is an art form, but it's also a very technical and very expensive art form. You can think of filmmaking as a three-legged stool of art, technology and money. And if one of those three is weak, the process suffers.Our brain has two ways of working. We have a creative, imaginative mind, and we also have an analytical mind. So how do we get the analytical left brain and the intuitive right brain to work together to make a movie? The easiest way to describe it is as a back and forth: you have an impulse and you create something, then you examine and analyze it, then you re-create it, but on a different level with the insight from the analysis that you did.Writers, poets, mystics, philosophers, even scientists create and discover through what I call the creative cycle or creative spiral. And you'll find it permeating the process of human creation in widely varying fields.The key to powerful creative stories lies in the unconscious mind. The creative cycle is the process of drawing the best material into consciousness.This is foundational to all creative work and especially to filmmaking. I'll be referring back to these principles in other videos because it's always part of the process.🎬 Deep Dive episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/ProfessionalFilmAnalysis ✉️ Newsletter on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/professionalfilmanalysis/p/the-creative-spiral-and-the-filmmakers?