So, what do you do when you have non-professional actors and not the budget? They include the docudrama / neo-realist film making philosophy. If you can not afford special effects and fancy camera that does not strain your budget. Do your minimalism special effects and blurring the boundaries between fiction and reality. Church for a movie, I'd suggest a mission of docudrama in black and white. We have a successful docudrama film (The Blair Witch Project), sitcoms have seen (The Office) and realityTV (Jersey Shore). This paper explores the philosophy behind the creation of this hybrid genre.
Pre-production and neo-realism
Rossellini, the father of Italian neorealism movement was not the intention of creating a movement. He basically said this was not enough money to do something else. This pre-production accounts for less complicated for independent filmmakers. Behind all the quantities rhetorical tropes neo-realism to recordings on the spot, and then write aScript to adapt to the real people / non-commercial actors that are available. In many ways, the script is performed at 50% and 50% improvisation culminates this with a very strong sense of reality on the screen.
When Roberto Rossellini released its first feature film Open City, as people said it seemed unrealistic, hence the term neo-realism. Andre Bazin, film theorist, was a big fan of neo-realism of Rossellini and, in particular. The goal, according to Bazin, the whole of life is to achieveBecause of its simplicity.
Rossellini was able to bring the reality of the new world of entertainment at a time when movies were always larger and more fantastic. Instead of escaping the reality that Rossellini made us be honest. Instead of flooding us with stunning sets and special effects, they gave us, "fragments of reality" and invited us to join together to reconstruct the meaning.
At the time of the war, believed to Rossellini's a desperate desire for the truth was in the movie. This isSo he wrote a moral to his cinema. He was not referring to what really happened during the war, and wanted to know the people. He used cinematic narrative, to expose this truth. There have been dramatic stories really happened in the world around him and wanted to catch them. It is debatable whether you put it Hurt Locker and Precious was in a neo-realist hybrid.
Bazin argued real continuity: the depth of field, long shots and a lack of assembly. This would make the interpretation ofa scene, the audience. To keep today's neo-realist, not necessarily all of these standards a little 'tired of objectivity, but the current docu-drama approach has urged an interpretation similar to the name of the spectators.
One of the best parts of the life of Richard Linklater's film Waking, is when the protagonist is only a movie, the director Caveh Zahedi and discussed poet David Jewell Bazin theory on realism. They emphasize Christian BazinBelief that every shot is a representation of God manifested creation. So we are essentially a movie in a movie that is to talk about film theory. What is waking up even more, when they say his theories employ the above is: ". Let's take a holy moment" What follows is a very creative looking for a brief cinematic claim to grasp the truth.
Production - Success stories
Some argue that science fiction cinema embraced more than ever, non-fiction aesthetic.Some directors are there to simplify the language of film.
Blair Witch Project
Myrick and Sanchez Blair Witch Project, which was published in 1999, is one of the most successful hybrid. They range from art and artificial life. One of the techniques that I use in our film would be, with the properties of something like a Hi8 (shaky cam). This technique, like the original neo-realist creates fragments of reality and invites the public together for peace. ForExample: shaky cam shakes his subjects in and out of the frame, focus is shifting in and out, and uses long, unbroken shots handheld. This style relies heavily on the immediacy and intimacy.
In This World
Michael Winterbottom has been called a film about an immigrant to the RoadTrip In This World (2002). They took a digital camera with portability and stroke adjustment. Even if half of the film was staged, the street scenes, crowds and market places were not on stage. Visual effectsReal-time helped us in the drama scripts and human travel that has been at the center of the film to drag. You will then return to the mode of documentary with the cards at the end of the title.
Five
Kiarostami, director of the five, take five takes a long time to make his film. This film uses long that Bazin identified as part of the neo-realist. There have been several "holy moments", where the director Kiarostami captures 15 minutes of the sea or the moon in a pond. Kiarostamicontinue to avoid unnecessary complex plot structure and artifices in the film Ten.
Dogma 95
The Dogma 95 group is made up of several people, including Thomas Vinterberg, Lars von Trier, and Kristen Levring. This group disbanded neo-realist films in different positions depleted. This was a return to the naturalness of the film. Idiots undermines not only big-budget Hollywood movies, but also documentary in question. The opening scene is drawnin this merger now.
Ford Transit
Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad has made a film called hybrid Ford Transit (2002). With a 16 mm camera, Abu-Assad tells the story of a Palestinian driver named Rajai transit. Local Rajai must complete military checkpoints Ford minivan. Hold the camera mounted on the car for most of the film, Abu-Assad manages to maintain tension in an all time high. In 2003 the film won Best DocumentaryPrize at the Jerusalem Festival.
When Abu - Assad's film was accused of being fraudulent, responded by saying that his film is both a documentary and fiction. Valuable as the film, this movie could happen or not. Just because the events we observe can be traded, does not mean that they are fictitious.
Like Bazin, we are able to transition into this cinematic style, simply because the neo-realism does not conflict with the Christian message. According to Bazin, encouragesthe Christian message.
Low Budget Marketing - Post Production
Ok, now we have a product that needs some changes, but the big question is how in the world, we must have this movie in the living room? We did go through all this for nothing? If only straight to DVD? Even then, as we get out there in bookstores and on Netflix? Directly on DVD is definitely an option. I would like to use to change a short version of the film and the rest of the budget for one orAll three choices: formats, book, film festivals or network.
Investing in your fans
One of the most time-consuming methods of marketing your film is the first to market as a novel and gain a strong fan base reading. Documented the success of the novel, the adaptation of the novel into a film, for a large corporation, much easier. I know you might think, this process also includes the financing, but if you have posted, it costs you nothing. If you self publish, nor costsmuch less which is a function of the distribution and financing. At least, keeping in this way you will have the opportunity to distribute the product more easily and avoid burdening your budget. This also allows the value of production of the film to achieve a high level of quality, whether it is a feature film. Here are some examples:
The refuge
William P. Young has worked with director Brad Cummings and Bobby Downes for the original purpose of the testimony, in addition to the glory of God;But in the end want to Downes and the wind blew the media, make this album in the film. How did they turn this turn history into a bestseller? After sending the book to 20 publishers and received 20 different waste, they decided to print the same book. They sold his book with a $ 300-podcast, and sold the first million copies of their garage.
A Time to Kill
Christian author John Grisham had 15 agents and 30 publishers rejected his first novel. Aftertired of the process, he decided to publish the same book with Wynwood Press in 1989. In 1996 it was turned into a thriller starring Samuel Jackson, Matthew McConaughey, Kevin Spacey and Sandra Bullock. It took in nearly $ 110 million at the box office and was nominated for several MTV awards.
Networking
The creators of facing the Giants admit they are lucky if they have called Sony and asked for the rights of some of their music. Sony Pictures has confirmed the end of the film andhelped to finance and sales. There are several stories like this, where departments to try Christian companies that collect network with Hollywood filmmakers Christian to Christian audiences.
For example, Sony also has a production deal with Bishop TD Jakes has signed after his woman, Thou art film resolved, drew theatergoers through grass - roots marketing in black churches. Jakes is also part of the "Investing in your fan" category, because he first published a car-Book version of the film. Lions - Gate is the funding Tyler Perry, who wrote several successful feature films: Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Madea Family Reunion, why I married one and two. Tyler Perry has recently contributed to approve Precious independent cinema. This film has been passed directly to DVD, but was nominated for several Oscars, including Best Picture went.
Film Festival
A short film and transfer to the film festival is a good waysales and financing for a full-length - version. Several filmmakers have done this, come to present their films in theaters.
Sling Blade
Billy Bob Thornton and director George Hickenlooper have considered that this film was originally a short film. But the facts are these: Sling Blade Thornton says it was originally a 1986 one-man play called Pearls Before Swine flu. Hickenlooper has recordings of the short film titled Sling Blade Some People Call It. It 'was filmed in a veryneo-realist way. It 'was also shot in black and white. It 'a shame that they had a fall, because he went to Thornton an Oscar for best original screenplay win.
It 'was also nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Since then he has in several successful films in Hollywood: Armageddon, Astronaut Farmer, the Apostle. Strangely, some people, was shot in the same Simi Valley Hospital, where he was shot the second Terminator
Napoleon Dynamite
This was originally a shortMovie called wig. Writer and director Jared Hess Jon Heder were college students at BYU on less than $ 500. They took some black and white 16mm film, which he accidentally overexposed, and went to Idaho to give the film 9 minutes. Even if accidentally exposed to the film, was his brief artistic look. Wig has been a success at Slamdance in 2003. A year later Napoleon Dynamite Hit Sundance.
This film had a total of a loyal following and win moreAwards: In 2005 the film won three MTV Movie Awards, the film breakthrough performance Male, Best Musical Performance, and Best. This film was ranked number 14 on Bravo's "100 funniest movies." In addition, four awards at the Teen Choice Awards: Best Movie Breakout - Female for Haylie Duff Dance Scene Best Picture, Best Film of Jon Heder gets hysterical and Best Comedy.
Half Nelson
Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden have completed the entire length of the script, Half Nelson, before being shotshorter version of it. He did it on purpose and spent their time jobs short of money, convince the financiers and traders would take to support their Full length scripts to shoot. They have put together $ 800 and asked for help to their friends. The 19-minute short film premiered at the Sundance Festival and the Aspen Short Film Festival in 2004. Two years after the film was released and distributed won an Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Wonnumerous film festival awards for acting and screenwriting.
Completion
With the advent of technology we can produce and market the films better than ever. Francis Ford Coppola predicted democratization of film. We hear this at the end of Hearts of Darkness (1991) video. He saw the future of cinema in the form of "some little girls in Ohio", and set a new apparatus, as a girl, his vision would have allowed to get on the screen: "For me the great hope is thatnow these little video recorders are around and people who normally would not be doing his films to make them.
And suddenly, one day, it's a little girl in Ohio go to the Mozart again and have a good film to be destroyed by her father's camcorder and for once the so-called professionalism about movies forever, and it's really become a form art "(Heart of Darkness). I say this day would come.
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