First time Burner from Brazil

[ddanielsun]

Hey guys,

Nice to meet you, I'm Daniel from Curitiba-Brazil and this is will be my first time in Burning Man(hopefully). Has been quite a while I have been watching people riding sofa's with wheels and remote controllers, Giant Robotic spiders as well stunning art installations. Sure that's impressive and really creative but what most I am excited to see and talk are burningman people. I have been in some festivals and even after the end, the desire of going to the next one and start sharing experiences always go higher and higher.

Having that in mind, I have decided come and speak with you guys and share some sentiments. I am a DJ, Event planner and I am starting producing independent films too. My desire is to have a DOC covering all the performances from the festivals, hope to accomplish and get my submission accepted by the crew!

Ahh I am planning a performance too, using makeymakey's closing circuit plug'n play USB with bluetooth speakers, will try to connect people with sound samples
Off course, all that will be happening if STEP drops a message in my mailbox. Hope is the big player here and will keep on hoping until making to Burning Man

[Eric]

I am a DJ, Event planner and I am starting producing independent films too. My desire is to have a DOC covering all the performances from the festivals, hope to accomplish and get my submission accepted by the crew!

First, welcome to the eplaya!

Second - slow down! Don't try to make major plans for an event you've never been to.
Those videos you've seen on YouTube? They're less than 1/60,000 of what's going on in any given minute on the playa. The only two times the majority of people are paying attention to the same thing are the Man Burn and the Temple Burn, and lots of people don't attend either of those, the rest of the time it's 60,000+ people doing there own thing: dancing, drinking, talking, fucking, creating, destroying... it's not one thing.

Third - to film out there you need advance permission from the Media Mecca at Burning Man, and you have to show them why your documentary is different than all the other ones that have requested to film (or have already been filmed). Wait until you go once, figure out what you can bring that's new & different, then approach them.

Lastly:

My desire is to have a DOC covering all the performances from the festivals

As stated above, there is so much going on at Burning Man that it is physically impossible for one person to capture more than a small slice of it - there is literally absolutely no way you can capture "all the performances". First, you have to break down what you mean by performances: mega DJs, smaller DJs scattered across the city, live bands, fights in the Thunder Dome, interactive art, performance art, parades... the DJs are the least interesting part of the event to many of us. It's also huge, and there are things going on in almost every camp on every street, and you can actually not find things that you want to see, and that turn out to have only been a block away from you all week (me last year - and I'm an old-timer)

[Capn Crunch]

I am a DJ, Event planner and I am starting producing independent films too. My desire is to have a DOC covering all the performances from the festivals, hope to accomplish and get my submission accepted by the crew!

First, welcome to the eplaya!

Second - slow down! Don't try to make major plans for an event you've never been to.
Those videos you've seen on YouTube? They're less than 1/60,000 of what's going on in any given minute on the playa. The only two times the majority of people are paying attention to the same thing are the Man Burn and the Temple Burn, and lots of people don't attend either of those, the rest of the time it's 60,000+ people doing there own thing: dancing, drinking, talking, fucking, creating, destroying... it's not one thing.

Third - to film out there you need advance permission from the Media Mecca at Burning Man, and you have to show them why your documentary is different than all the other ones that have requested to film (or have already been filmed). Wait until you go once, figure out what you can bring that's new & different, then approach them.

Lastly:

My desire is to have a DOC covering all the performances from the festivals

As stated above, there is so much going on at Burning Man that it is physically impossible for one person to capture more than a small slice of it - there is literally absolutely no way you can capture "all the performances". First, you have to break down what you mean by performances: mega DJs, smaller DJs scattered across the city, live bands, fights in the Thunder Dome, interactive art, performance art, parades... the DJs are the least interesting part of the event to many of us. It's also huge, and there are things going on in almost every camp on every street, and you can actually not find things that you want to see, and that turn out to have only been a block away from you all week (me last year - and I'm an old-timer)

^^^ Couldn't have said it better myself.

[ddanielsun]

Thanks for your message and tips @Capn Crunch and @Eric, I have missed words as english is not my main language, sorry for the misunderstanding.

What I meant by performances are bands and people who uses organic and different instruments within festivals all over the world in one documentary, trying to cover and film as many as I can. I think is a good idea to have a first experience them and see how projects go. I really enjoy participate someway, that's why I have so many plans.

[Aurelia]

Brasiliana !
Yay, your energy will be part of the joy

so many of your countrymen dancing and performing and building art

if you get a tx let me know and I will try to pm you to others

xoA.

[*Kat*]

Welcome to eplaya!

Yay, your energy will be part of the joy

That. Exactly.

Good luck on getting a ticket!

[ddanielsun]

Defo will send a message when I get those tickets!!

Thanks

[Ugly Dougly]

If you can capture LIVE performances, especially with acoustic instruments, then maybe you can help dispel the idea that BM is all about Electronic Dance Music.

[Aurelia]

but UD, there is a great deal of live music

maybe you spend your time with the big sound

I try to mix me up

[Eric]

I think UD knows there's live music out there, most of us do. The problem is that the general population who doesn't actually attend thinks it's all EDM, because that's what's shown in the media & the youtube videos. A documentary showing live music at Burning Man could broaden the spectrum of people who are discovering this, and help it to avoid becoming just another stop on the EDM circuit.

[Aurelia]

Yay ! Eric is gonna teach me

duh ..talking to UD about music
specific Brasiliana music I hope..capoeira ?

[Eric]

Yay ! Eric is gonna teach me

I am not sure how I could fit more knowledge in your head.

[Aurelia]

You are right of course

[ddanielsun]

Hey guys, finally I did at OMG sales. Hope to meet all of you there

[AntiM]

Yay!