You as a filmmaker; an Artist or Entertainer?

[xsanmdanx]

As a filmmaker, are your films more art or are they entertainment? I think myself more as an entertainer than as artist, but I still like to go to the details. I'm like 75% entertainer and 25% artist.

How about you?

[nooneimportant77]

Lots and lots of times I find myself saying 'Well... as long as it looks cool I don't really care'. Which I think lands me in entertainment, but lately I've been trying to find ways to be more expressive.

[atomic9studios]

I believe im 60% entertainer and 40% Artist. I want to keep the audience focusing on the film's plot and backstory as much as possible. But at the same time, i also want it to look good to people who aren't concerned about the movie's plot, but its camera work and other itty bitty details.

Like noone said, Im an entertainer, but in the past few months, ive been trying to be more "fluent" in the art form of film :D

[Griffmo]

I'm an entertainer with class. I want people to enjoy my stuff, but if it's not well done, and has some kind of meaning, it's not worth making too me. I hate snobby art films, they bore me, and seem to me just a way to show off your "superiority"

[xsanmdanx]

I have a great DP, who is the artist in our group. But as a writer I still like to stick my finger on the artistic sides also. I've been lately interested in prop-making, but I don't think that as a aspect on filmmaking.

[Blaman]

I like to think the two do not have to be separated. I think the entertainment comes from the artistry. My films may be art, but they are not experimental. That stuff drives me mad sometimes

[bubblefax]

25 percent artist 40 percent entertainer and 50 percent film maker.

Yeah I went past 100 what you gonna do about it... Tee Hee

[atomic9studios]

WHAT AM I GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?!

Im gonna go geocaching, thats what im gonna do about it :D

[Todd]

when i was studying Game Development/Engineering in school, we always brought up the art vs entertainment argument.

ART > ENTERTAINMENT.

[Indymoguler]

entertainer. although im more interested in artistic parts of the film, society is more drawn to entertainment than anything else nowadays.

[Nonsensical studios]

I make films to tell a story. If you find them entertaining, then that's just a plus.

[Citrus]

I make films to tell a story. If you find them entertaining, then that's just a plus.
This.

[Ladri.]

I make films to tell a story. If you find them entertaining, then that's just a plus.

Nonsensical knows his shit.

[Nonsensical studios]

Nonsensical knows his shit.

:D

[insane12]

i see my self as 70% artist 30% entertainer. Although my short films never made it to the finish product, they are probably more original then what you see most out of Hollywood.

[Fisherking]

1% artist, 1% entertainer, 100% wanker.

[WesScog]

But that's 102%.

[Steelersk36]

I would have to say I'm an entertainer.
No shame attached whatsoever.
Yes, I like to put my art into my films, but entertainment is
completely necessary. Not much good to express your art
if no one is there to watch it.

[Fisherking]

But that's 102%.

I always go one better.

[trspballer7]

I would rather call myself an artist than an entertainer, so I put more artistic measurements into my films.

[WesScog]

I always go one better.

But, isn't that two better?

[nolan]

I make films to tell a story. If you find them entertaining, then that's just a plus.

I think thats a main goal for a lot of filmmakers, but then you can express yourself through art all you want but if it's not entertaining you will be the only one watching the film to get your message.so to a point a goal must be to make it entertaining enough for an audience to watch so that your message/story can get through.so I see it as a compromise between the filmmaker and his art and the audience and their entertainment

[Fisherking]

But, isn't that two better?

I also go one better than one.

[Indymoguler]

ah but i go 103%

[stikyfingas]

I'd call myself neither, I'm a amateur.

[WesScog]

I also go one better than one.

Touche.

[Brainstrained]

Good art is entertaining, good entertainment is art.

[thorni52]

I have yet to make a film that expresses true meaning. So I guess I would fall under the entertainer category. I do concentrate on the look of my films a lot though.

[loosechange]

artist.

filmmaking is a craft.

[GhostOfAllie]

Good art is entertaining, good entertainment is art.

This says it all.