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FCPX cutting a hundred million dollar feature right this minute.
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[shawn Bockoven] ” My 24-year-old enjoys FreddieW’s work more than most things produced by the networks or studios.”
What movies does he own on DVD/Blu-ray?
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[Clint Wardlow] ” And with today’s software and equipment, you can make it look pretty damned good.”
Do you have any examples of which movies shot for no more than $6,000 look pretty good?
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[James Ewart] “But just because we all have keyboards and word processing software that does not mean we can write best sellers.”
Exactly, yet there are still plenty of “novelists” out there not selling their Kindle versions.
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[Gary Huff] “Do you have any examples of which movies shot for no more than $6,000 look pretty good?”
Local Utah filmmaker Trent Harris made two films (both shot with an HDV camera) for under $6,000. The Delightful Water Universe and Luna Mesa. They are his latest feature-length films.
I am pretty sure his movie the Beaver Trilogy cost less than that also — but that is not a fair assessment as he used footage he had shot over a couple of decades and already had made into short films.
Trent did get his shot at Hollywood with the Working Title funded Rubin and Ed (starring Crispin Glover) but it didn’t really make any money on its initial run, becoming kind of a cult favorite. He also created a local favorite; Plan 10 From Outer Space shot on 16mm for about $60,000.
Also the “looking pretty good” is a relative term. For someone like me that started on soundless super8 and 16mm, moved into VHS and highspeed Betacam cut on a double deck JVC editing suite — what micro budget filmmakers can produce now-a-days seems pretty good.
Jay and Mark Duplass also created Baghead for a couple of thousand bucks.
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Now I am probably being setup for something here …
I have a home theater with a 110′ screen and only own 2 Blu-ray discs that were given to me as gifts. Both of my oldest own no physical media with the exception of Pacific Rim. He fell in love with the movie and wanted the extras on the physical media. Most of my younger staff don’t have cable or terrestrial television in their homes.
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We put this together for about $60,000. There are four parts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYsqzl52wQg
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Jesus, I hate accidentally liking my own post. It makes me look like such a tool. So I unliked it.
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[shawn Bockoven] ” Both of my oldest own no physical media with the exception of Pacific Rim. He fell in love with the movie and wanted the extras on the physical media.”
Okay, so Pacific Rim, an old-media megabudget production, inspired enough love from him that they were able to monetize his enjoyment of the film.
Did he at least contribute to some of the lower tiers of the Kickstarter campaigns for FreddieW’s attempt to monetize his Call of Duty and Mario FX videos into something more along the lines of original content?
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The Delightful Universe Trailer
Luna Mesa Trailer
I would term “looking pretty good” as something that’s, at least, cheap network/basic cable narrative TV show. Maybe something from the 90s, like X-Files in its earliest seasons. Or is that too much to ask?
Baghead was $60,000 to shoot and $200,000 to deliver, according to this.
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Had to call him to find out. He is finishing his Masters in multimedia and a starving student, however his answer was yes. He supports FreddieW and Adam Warrock.
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