Eric SamulskiWhat Makes It
December 29th 2006 03:11
Thunderbirds Are Go
There is one striking thing I notice in contemporary low-budget film-making.
And that’s; lost opportunity.
Shrouded in the cloud of budgetary restrictions there is so much missed potential. If you truly know your target audience, then you know what they expect. They will happily concede production quality for what they want to see.
Low-budget has an appeal – so use it.
There was a time in film-making when nudity was mandatory in the first three minutes of any film.
I call them; the glory days.
It’s all since gone to shit.
But it’s not just nudity, gory scenes need gore.
Recently one of our crew, Jonny Pineapple, made a short film.
Duke loved it, I haven’t seen it yet.
He asked him;” How did you get that great hand-copping effect?”
“I went to the local butcher and got a pig’s trotter, then…”
And that’s it. Guerilla film-making is all about solving expensive problems cheaply.
Duke and me taught him that.
Although I must say, I hate working with offal.
On a long day’s shoot there’s this smell of death…
Anyway, the concept is solid.
Until next time and happy film-making.
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