Potential Ideas For A Potential Film
I've been thinking a lot lately about what kind of movie I'd make if I ever did get the opportunity to actually make one. Since I don't know the first thing about filmmaking, it'd have to be something low-key that wouldn't require some sort of Spielbergian effort or anything like that. Something simple.
Last time I posted about this, one of the peanut gallery suggested I film a play. And truth be told, I've actually been thinking about that lately. I've entertained the idea of doing a movie version of something by William Shakespeare, but with modern dialogue. Kinda like West Side Story without all the singing and dancing, or the Leonardo DiCaprio/Claire Danes version of Romeo and Juliet with a 21st-century vocabulary. I don't know if I'd make it like 10 Things I Hate About You or anything like that, but if I could come up with something that I feel could work and that I would be personally satisfied with, I'd go for it.
That isn't the only project I'd like to take a shot at, though. If I can think something up, I'd like to take a shot at something akin to Broken Lizard's movies, and I had the idea that I believe could make an entertaining movie if I could pull it off right. The movie would basicially be similar to the very awesome documentary American Movie. It would a comedy centering around a guy trying to make a movie and how it affects him and his loved ones. Depending on how I chose to do it and if it was any kind of success, I'd probably end up drawing lots of comparisons to American Movie and perhaps to a far lesser extent Christopher Guest's mockumentary For Your Consideration, but I believe it'd be a fun movie to make.
As I've said previously, we'll have to see how it goes. Any ideas or suggestions from the peanut gallery are, as always, greatly appreciated.
Last time I posted about this, one of the peanut gallery suggested I film a play. And truth be told, I've actually been thinking about that lately. I've entertained the idea of doing a movie version of something by William Shakespeare, but with modern dialogue. Kinda like West Side Story without all the singing and dancing, or the Leonardo DiCaprio/Claire Danes version of Romeo and Juliet with a 21st-century vocabulary. I don't know if I'd make it like 10 Things I Hate About You or anything like that, but if I could come up with something that I feel could work and that I would be personally satisfied with, I'd go for it.
That isn't the only project I'd like to take a shot at, though. If I can think something up, I'd like to take a shot at something akin to Broken Lizard's movies, and I had the idea that I believe could make an entertaining movie if I could pull it off right. The movie would basicially be similar to the very awesome documentary American Movie. It would a comedy centering around a guy trying to make a movie and how it affects him and his loved ones. Depending on how I chose to do it and if it was any kind of success, I'd probably end up drawing lots of comparisons to American Movie and perhaps to a far lesser extent Christopher Guest's mockumentary For Your Consideration, but I believe it'd be a fun movie to make.
As I've said previously, we'll have to see how it goes. Any ideas or suggestions from the peanut gallery are, as always, greatly appreciated.
posted by Matt Sutton at
4:23 PM
5 Comments:
I meant you could cut costs by filming a play rather than trying to find locations and stuff. Just pick a spot, put on an original play, film it, call it a movie. I don't know where you're getting this $150,000 figure- be cheap, man.
$150,000 is cheap, considering that most "low budget" movies cost upwards of a million dollars.
An updated Shakespearean idea sounds like fun to me. If I were to try that myself it would prolly be Macbeth...because it's violent and stuff.
I still think your "Clerks at Wal-Mart" idea is well worth pursuing, too.
Pardon me if this posted twice.
My movie idea- the crime-on-home-video idea- I estimate would cost $5000 at the very most, and that's mostly because I'd need to purchase some equipment. I really think it could be successfully done for $1500-2000. I had it actually figured out at one point, and it was alarmingly inexpensive.
The script, unfortunately, is a bitch, and not something I want to tackle alone at all.
If you're going to do it with just a regular everyday camcorder, then you could probably spend no more than 5000 bucks to cover PC editing software and the camera itself.
Shooting a traditional movie, on the other hand... I'm doing the research, and the cameras alone can cost between $15,000-$30,000 for ultra high-end camcorders and $85,000-$100,000 for professional video cameras used on television shows.
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