Unfortunately this post isn't exactly about how to go about being a millionaire, but more so the short film I've been working on for the last week. The story is fairly simple, which large similarities to Requiem for a Dream but without so much cool montages. In fact, it's sort of like Requiem for a Dream mixed with Mr. Deeds, except the main characters don't really end up with anything at the end. The film is aiming to be around 30 minutes in length, and I'm doing the camera work for it, last shooting day is meant to be this coming Monday.
It's quite refreshing working in a different group and not really having to worry so much about how it's going to turn out. Of course I try to make sure it does look good etc, but a lot of the stress is removed when it is someone elses project you're working on. The film probably has the biggest crew I've worked with since first year, and it's not even that big - around 4 main people as crew - a Director, Camera, 1st A.D. and Sound/Lighting. Pretty much only one more person than I'm used to, but that can make a big difference, especially when the Camera and Lighting people are removed from the Director, and the Director is just commenting whether she likes it or not.
The days shooting have been pretty long and I think we have about 5 hours worth of footage so far.. still seems like there is quite a bit more to shoot, but with only one shooting day things must be almost completed. I may have to wait sometime to grab ahold of some stills from the film, or better yet the completed product once its finished, but I'll definately post them up as soon as I can get my hands on them.
A Month of Reflection
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2 comments:
"it's sort of like Requiem for a Dream mixed with Mr. Deeds"
The mind boggles.
Working on other peoples films is, for me, a mixed experience. If I'm really into the film it's really fun, if the film is drab as hell it's not so fun. Anything with zombies, gun fights or nonsensical dream sequences is fun, anything with uninteresting characters exchanging drab dialogue whilst in uninteresting locations is not so much fun.
Yup, definately sounds like a weird mix, I'll give you a brief description of what happens in the story - Basically a couple decide to try and kill the guy's millionaire mother by getting her addicted to diet pills, the exact kind prevalent in Requiem for Dream. After much deliberation about the effects of the drugs on the old mother, and dialogues from the couple about how much they're going to enjoy the huge mansion and all the money, the mother ends up gambling away her millions leaving the couple with nothing, not even the mansion as it is left to some Historic Buildings society. Bit of a twist at the end there, and yes I seem to have given away the ending but its pretty obvious whats going to happen through the movie.
And yeah, drab dialogue scenes in uninteresting locations are always good.
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