To anyone considering building a beautiful faerie-like city for a short film they might be in the process of making, I would like to offer the following advice:
* It's probably a good idea to build the city before you start filming, not the other way around.
* If working outside, bring in the washing before you start filming, even if it is a nice drying day.
* Your treasures, spread on the ground in your garden, will tend to look like one of those piles of junk that old men used to display for sale on pocket handkerchiefs at the scuzzy end of Brick Lane before it got trendy - no matter how artily you assemble them, or which angle you photograph them from or how desperately you want them, collectively, to look like a skyline in Shanghai.
* It doesn't matter if you have been to Shanghai. A toast rack is a toast rack is a toast rack, whether upside down or right side up.
* Think twice before using Christmas baubles to bring a futuristic feel to your city - their shiny surfaces may reflect your face and camera in them during filming.
* Although it is cheap and plentiful, remember that tinfoil always looks like tinfoil even when it is out of the packet - what else could it be?
* You can't make a city out of jelly unless you know what you're doing.
* Show business is hell.
8 hours ago
4 comments:
'If working outside, bring in the washing before you start filming, even if it is a nice drying day.'
This should be in every film maker's handbook. Perfect.
Thanks, Josie!
Hope you've made a "Making of" video for this film. Which, by the way, your public awaits eagerly.
Thanks, Tom. Actually we do have a 'making of' film as a back-up in an Echo Beach/Moving Wallpaper kind of a way, in case the film itself should turn out to be rubbish.
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