If you were suddenly offered a space to film in, with little time to prepare (say 24-48 hours) and little time to use it ( another day or two), would you be able to make something happen on camera to take advantage of the freebie?
This type of thing, free or cheap locations, can happen. They come around seasonally when businesses are slow, or if friends travel. A prop, actor or some other thing you'd really like to work may suddenly present itself and you want to be ready.
I recently had this happen. As filmmakers, most of us are ready on the "lights, camera" side of thing and we may even have the "action" down in terms of having a dozen script ideas sitting in a file or swimming around in our heads at any given time, but what else will we need?
Well, I found that having props on hand, having a knowledge of what could be bought cheaply and quickly, who I may or may not be able to work with locally (I need to work on this one more) and having a few basic costumes to choose from really helped pull it all together.
Here is a video about how this sort of came about.
This type of thing, free or cheap locations, can happen. They come around seasonally when businesses are slow, or if friends travel. A prop, actor or some other thing you'd really like to work may suddenly present itself and you want to be ready.
I recently had this happen. As filmmakers, most of us are ready on the "lights, camera" side of thing and we may even have the "action" down in terms of having a dozen script ideas sitting in a file or swimming around in our heads at any given time, but what else will we need?
Well, I found that having props on hand, having a knowledge of what could be bought cheaply and quickly, who I may or may not be able to work with locally (I need to work on this one more) and having a few basic costumes to choose from really helped pull it all together.
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