I worked as a PSM on someone else's short film. We all worked for free and were payed with food pretty much. The director then sent that short film into some production companies, wanting to make the short film into a feature, and was using the short showcase.
He got offered 10 million dollars from a company, but he turned it down. The company wanted him to use a cast and crew of their choice, and he would be out of the loop and picking his cast and crew. So he went to a different company and got a hundred thousand dollars instead, with the freedom to cast and crew whoever he wanted pretty much.
I wasn't invited back to the feature, so I do not know much more than that. I went to see the movie though, at a premiere at a film festival, where I live. But I was surprised at how incredibly microbudget it all seemed, even for a hundred thousand dollars, like he said it was... I was wondering where all the money went. The cinematography and sets were all very well done though. But the sound was poor, and it's not like there was a lot of complicated things going on, in front of the camera, that required a lot of money. There was a burn victim, so maybe a lot of the money went to the special effects for that one shot maybe. The movie was heavily advertised, and the filmmakers did travel to the U.S. and went on talk show though, so maybe that is were a lot of it went though.
But I was just surprised, and thought maybe they just said it was a million when it wasn't. But I was just simply curious, since I am into filmmaking, and want to learn more about how it all works. What do you think?
He got offered 10 million dollars from a company, but he turned it down. The company wanted him to use a cast and crew of their choice, and he would be out of the loop and picking his cast and crew. So he went to a different company and got a hundred thousand dollars instead, with the freedom to cast and crew whoever he wanted pretty much.
I wasn't invited back to the feature, so I do not know much more than that. I went to see the movie though, at a premiere at a film festival, where I live. But I was surprised at how incredibly microbudget it all seemed, even for a hundred thousand dollars, like he said it was... I was wondering where all the money went. The cinematography and sets were all very well done though. But the sound was poor, and it's not like there was a lot of complicated things going on, in front of the camera, that required a lot of money. There was a burn victim, so maybe a lot of the money went to the special effects for that one shot maybe. The movie was heavily advertised, and the filmmakers did travel to the U.S. and went on talk show though, so maybe that is were a lot of it went though.
But I was just surprised, and thought maybe they just said it was a million when it wasn't. But I was just simply curious, since I am into filmmaking, and want to learn more about how it all works. What do you think?
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