Director Mark AC Brown and actor David Whitney talk about how they made their new indie film Guardians.
We also chat about how Mark made a film for his degree but it was a great experiment and not to be seen again. How he wrote a feature script for Nu Image but the 'Expendables' ruined it and how it is best to write something to make yourself for free or on a micro budget with what you have available to you.
How when making an indie film, continuity is not as important as the story. How the establishing scene of a character is so important. But don’t waste time on drone shots. Then get the most amount of permissions you can get. And if not shoot anyway.
Suzanne Smith - their DoP was a runner on a Brainehound short and worked her way up. Made short film Beard with David and Mark and proved herself as a brilliant DoP and How having great all rounders like Fred Fournier and Joe Starrs as editor and 1st AD respectively is vital as is keeping your ‘team’ from your shorts/music videos and bringing them with you.
With low budget movies you have to juggle and workaround peoples schedules and how 'Withnails' - Richard E Grant's marvelous book was an inspiration (as was The Wah Wah Diaries)
When you are supposed to be doing he scene in 4 shots but end up doing it in one due to time constraints but it’s one of the best moments in the film so it's not always best to stick to your shot lists.
Why post can take so long when you are asking for favours on a micro budget film.
How they learned from other filmmakers on how they distributed their films - Ben Cookson, Fizz and Ginger's Two Down and James Rumsey's Drunk on Love.
Mark wanted to have a cinema run so chose Our Screen to have a theatrical release. Then the release got extended as it sold out for the second night.
And how they opened a festival in a double bill with recent horror film IT.
Links:
The Film: www.guardiansfilm.co.uk/
Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq25LXWmsps&t=10s
Twitter twitter.com/guardiansbhf
Facebook www.facebook.com/guardiansfilm/
Mark AC Brown www.markacbrown.com/ Twitter : twitter.com/Brainehowndfilm
David Whitney www.davidwhitney.org/ Twitter: twitter.com/DWhitney
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Recorded at Just Voices Studios in London
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Ep 38 DIRECTING 'THE CROWN' TV SERIES with Director Ben Caron
Ep 37 HOW TO GO FROM DIRECTING WEBSERIES TO DIRECTING SHERLOCK with director Ben Caron
Ep 36 HOW TO DIRECT FIGHT SCENES & DIRECTING STREET FIGHTER Part 2 with Joey Ansah
Ep 35 DIRECTING STREET FIGHTER & ACTING IN BOURNE ULTIMATUM with Joey Ansah PART 1
Ep 34 CASTING NAMED TALENT IN YOUR FILMS & MAKING SHORTS with Nev Pierce and Jim Page
Ep 33 HOW TO PRODUCE BAFTA NOMM’D GOD’S OWN COUNTRY with Jack Tarling
Ep 32 NEVER GIVE UP! PART 2 OF HOW A BLOCKBUSTER TAX SCAM DIDN’T STOP FILMMAKER PAUL KNIGHT
Ep 31 LANDSCAPE OF LIES – THE INSIDE STORY OF HOW A BLOCKBUSTER TAX SCAM WOULDN’T STOP FILMMAKER Paul Knight – Pt 1
Ep 30 ‘TWO DOWN’ SPECIAL Pt2 with Tori & Matthew Butler-Hart, Giles Alderson & Christian James
Ep 29 TWO DOWN Part 1 with Matthew & Tori Butler-Hart
Ep 28 HOW TO MAKE A £1K PERIOD FEATURE FILM with George Popov & Harry Young
Ep 27 SIX IMPORTANT LESSONS WE LEARNT MAKING OUR FEATURE FILMS
Ep 26. HOW TO MAKE INDIE FILM WINTER RIDGE with Dom Lenoir and Matt Hookings
Ep 25 HOW TO GET NOTICED AS A FILMMAKER & CROWDSOURCING YOUR FILM with Rich Botto
Ep 24 HOW TO SHOOT, DIRECT & DOP A MICRO BUDGET INDIE FILM AND GET A CINEMA RELEASE – with Helier Bissell-Thomas
Ep 23 HOW TO DISTRIBUTE YOUR INDIE FILM with JASON BRUBAKER
Ep 22 PRODUCING & CINEMATOGRAPHY for FILM & TV with Sam Care & Julian Kostov
Ep 21 HOW TO MAKE A LOW BUDGET INDIE FEATURE with director James Kermack
Ep 20 LIVE at the LSF – Director’s CUT with JON SEN, JOHN STRICKLAND, JONATHAN NEWMAN & GILES ALDERSON
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