Mathieu Ghekiere |
September 9th, 2005 03:17 PM |
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Originally Posted by Brian Andrews
Mathieu,
How many days did it take you to shoot your 28 minute short? Do you know how many script pages you got through in an average day?
Thanks,
Brian.
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Sorry to respond this late, Brian. We shot for 6 days, but it were more half days, not that many hours a day (4-6 maybe). It was a school project. A friend of mine, had the same assignment (but another script, you got the assignment, but had to write your own script, mine was bigger than his) and he had many problems, and eventually was forced to shoot the whole movie in one daty, and it was ultimately a 15-minute short!!! But that was lots of stress, but he did it. We worked in the vacation, and we didn't had so much stress, because we actually had lots of time. I cannot really tell you how much we got in one day, because it realle depended on the scene, and if it was dialogue-driven, if it was technical more difficult. It's also almost 2 years ago.
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Originally Posted by Dylan Couper
Sorry, that advice isn't applicable once you have to start working within a budget. If you only have the money for a two day shoot, you can't spend twenty takes getting a shot just right. I forget who said "directing is all about comprimise," but it is true.
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Very true, I was indeed commenting about a non-budget movie. The project I tried after that 28 minute short was with a kind of budget (hard to explain) and with much more responsibality. You indeed have very less chance to be able to do everything the way you want it.
But what I also meant with my quote was: don't be happy TOO early, because in your editing process, you'll blame yourself for it.
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