It’s rather insane to expect two shorts from a group of five students in their last semester and on top of that expect quality work. Time is everything in this medium of cinema – but that’s not what has been created.
It was more about trying to find a balance of “shot-gunning it”, work to insane time constraints and at the same time not to fail nor put our names to shame.
The first shoot we did for our second film was rather depressing. There was no time, no location (other than the office next to Paul’s…) and we were barely able to ‘cover’ what we needed to cover.
I was Latch’s gaffer and tried to do as much as I could, however sadly witnessed as his creative vision crumbled in front of his eyes. “No time to do this – just light it.” Not necessarily the words I want to hear from a creative DP.
Sacrifice WILL show on screen, there is just no way around that, not with any post-production measures (if there was substantial time for those).
Now, this may sound a little bitter, it is not. I am merely disappointed that great things were promised in first year that we will get to make an almost constraint-less film over the course of one year, with people we chose. We started to plan our project then and there.
SPLASH!
Lionel
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