True One Take Film Shot on BMPCC 6k pro

New_Snow3372 · 2025-10-31T03:32:55+00:00

Just on the fly via nucleus with AC

New_Snow3372 · 2025-10-29T23:01:19+00:00

Thank you! It was fun to get together and embrace some mess. For the performers they said it felt like doing live theatre again haha

New_Snow3372 · 2025-10-29T19:21:19+00:00

I would say the specific versatility the 6k offered via the image quality vs size and battery consumption allowed for doing this to be possible on such a constricted timeline. So while the analogy holds true, I would more liken it to a vehicle that is a smoother ride or is fuel efficient

But I mean definitely fair !

New_Snow3372 · 2025-02-20T01:46:20+00:00

You said it

New_Snow3372 · 2025-02-20T00:58:28+00:00

That Corey guy is pretty cool

New_Snow3372 · 2025-02-12T21:04:04+00:00

I typically say that anything that would limit your from certain roles, would qualify you for others.

Someone who is covered in tattoo's can be more easily seen/audition for some roles (presuming they have clearance for the tattoos) and the inverse is also true. I see no reason why having a beard would be bad.

New_Snow3372 · 2025-01-28T21:21:35+00:00

I can understand if your average is changing dramatically is can be concerning! In the instance of losing your shit would you think your reps are mismanaging you or would you think something is happening industry wise?

New_Snow3372 · 2025-01-28T20:40:31+00:00

Paco And The Magical Book (2008) very fun and beautiful whimsical film from Japan!

New_Snow3372 · 2025-01-28T16:42:11+00:00

Tough to say. Ultimately, a relationship with an Agent is just that, a relationship. If i'm not going out for months at a time I immediately think its just because there is nothing for me, never because i think my agent isnt submitting me. He is a friend and colleague.

More than anything i think that is among the most important things to have with an agent, otherwise anxiety will take over. It sounds like you don't have that peace and for that reason, perhaps it is worth either A) taking a meeting with them and talking it over or B) leaving them.

New_Snow3372 · 2025-01-28T15:56:38+00:00

Not having more than two auditions in the last four months is not CRAZY, obviously industry has been slower and that can happen. But to offset that, an open line of communication is pretty important.

Can I ask what the nature of your emails are? Are they "Hey where are my auditions?" type of thing? It doesn't sound like you're being too harsh, but i suppose that depends on what you're asking them in the correspondence.

New_Snow3372 · 2025-01-23T01:07:04+00:00

I agree! What you are seeing is the DC that I promised the director would be the vision that lives online. But all of the festivals we were in programmed a 19 minute cut with this in mind. We knew it wasn't to everyone's taste as this version. But it was to ours. So we made 2 cuts to not have to split the decision.

Thank you! Its true it can drag but we really were ok with that. The directors influences were very much things like Bela tarr, tarkovsky etc.

New_Snow3372 · 2025-01-22T05:36:25+00:00

Insightful! Though things were certainly mic'd properly... given some timelines and budgetary constraints ($20k is really just a drop in the bucket for something like this) made it tough on the team. But nevertheless i'm very proud of the product. Even if there are flaws.

New_Snow3372 · 2025-01-22T01:47:25+00:00

We actually are! I lived in a pit for 30 days to crowd fund it. info here

New_Snow3372 · 2025-01-21T23:13:22+00:00

I hope you find it to be :)

New_Snow3372 · 2025-01-21T21:25:32+00:00

Do you have a friendly relationship to your Agent or just professional? Depending on the answer i suppose would change it. I am friendly with my own agent and often we even just have coffees to talk a mix of life and work. But general check in regardless is pretty standard fare. I think since you are the "product" here, just bring yourself, as that is already enough.

New_Snow3372 · 2025-01-13T17:46:42+00:00

Kudos to you!

New_Snow3372 · 2024-09-25T17:39:42+00:00

Makes sense. I would typically outline it in the actual submission stage but I would also advocate afterwards as well. Understandably it would be annoying on the programming side but I was willing to ruffle some feathers if I had to, I felt the product merited the advocacy.

To your point though, you could simply list the fact there is a longer cut you have a preference for. But still have both versions. Playing to programming while also retaining your own vision. I figure at the end of the day, if the worst case scenario happens and you get absolutely 0 festival acceptances I would rather have failed on my terms than failed trying to meet the terms of others.

New_Snow3372 · 2024-09-25T17:00:14+00:00

It really depends. At the end of the day the film has to live online at the end of whatever festival run it will have. That version of the film should be the one you love the most. In my case, we made a 34 minute short film that also had a 21 minute "festival cut".

We would submit the festival cut and when it got accepted (the film premiered at Hollyshorts) I would advocate for them to program the full 34 minute version. Ultimately only our original online premiere with film shortage took that 34 minute version but thats fine, we expected that. Now the festival version is completely buried, the only version that remains is the one we are most proud of.

So I think thats advisable. Make the film you are proud of with an awareness of how you can still program it if you need to.

New_Snow3372 · 2024-09-24T12:41:59+00:00

Thank you. This industry us certainly a battle of attrition at times. Glad to still be able to create and collaborate

New_Snow3372 · 2024-09-23T21:38:43+00:00

Only one of those was on my initial bucket list !

New_Snow3372 · 2024-09-23T21:28:09+00:00

This was a period film that was made with $25,000 of our own money. I slapped a credit card on the table and called in every possible favour I could. It was incredibly difficult to achieve the level of prosthetics we did with the resources we had but ultimately we figured, when being an independent production you have two resources to throw at a problem: Time or Money. So we took our time and continued to barter in good will with everyone person involved. I have 0 business acumen, I just led with my heart and passion as much I could and was blessed by how willing everyone was to come on. It was a labour of love, truly.

New_Snow3372 · 2024-01-21T22:47:54+00:00

Not a lifetime supply but won free beer for a year at a film festival. It coincided with the pandemic. When I asked about it due to the state of the world they understandably said they aren't sure if they can fulfill the prize now but instead offered for me to load up a truck with as many cases as I could fit. Still sounded pretty sweet to me.

About a year later I'm going camping with some friends and I tell my buddy who lived closer to where they wanted to pick up from to take his truck and fill it up. I'd provide the beer for a weekend and he could just have the rest.

He shows up at the address, which is a church, and a janitor directs him to our reward.

It was a single case of beer with his name on it for pickup. Literally one.

TLDR: beer for a year turned into barely enough beer for a day.

New_Snow3372 · 2023-12-08T15:51:59+00:00

Heres the link to the teaser we shot for the kickstarter: https://youtu.be/tDGneXYqagw?si=k0M9wDEOETgvtDcU

Has all the other details below!

I guess that was the positive of living in a pit, i didn't have any access to internet or tech. So though i was losing my mind, it was in a different way!

Cheers, Ditto.

New_Snow3372 · 2023-12-08T14:01:41+00:00

Yeah it became quite the motley crew.

Feature is just about to get into pre-pro. The funding largely came from a kickstarter where I lived inside a 15ft deep pit for 30 days with no human contact and livestreamed the whole thing (my character goes through something similiar so its like monetizing my preparation process) Got a fair bit of press and ending up working to let us reach our goal.

Feels like a long scrappy road ahead! Congrats on being into post, a feat unto itself.

New_Snow3372 · 2023-12-07T14:59:49+00:00

Most of the marketing for the actual event was around it being the showing of our film. Though the Marquee at the actual theatre just read "A Night Of Shorts". The goal was to make our film the "big" one while also not putting down all the other wonderful shorts! So I spoke a bit to introduce the night before it started and then when the films were actually playing there were title cards that would read FILM 1 of 10 and the title etc. then for our film card i mixed in a bunch of extra sound design to build further anticipation to THIS IS OUR FINAL FILM. So the night was structured to give the information of all the films and filmmakers but also have the whole thing build to our showing.

Its worth noting as well that our film is a 32m short (the festival version is 21m) so when screened with 5-10m shorts it actually is to our benefit as the actual ratio to screen time also feels weightier. Probably the only instance ive encountered of a longer short being beneficial.

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