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angela_n_hunt) wrote2009-09-16 11:21 am
angela_n_hunt) wrote2009-09-16 11:21 am
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The Finish Line - Production Notes
So.
Here's the thing.
Between the Mad Model and I, the whole thing took less than a day to shoot, less than two months to edit and get on the Internetz, or if I count actual time spent editing, less than two full days to edit and get on the Internetz, *and*...I'm happy with it.
o.O
All that it took was studio rental ($150 for the day), one each Flip Ultra HD Camera ($175), my existing iPod and speakers for sync sound at the studio, one each white backdrop which was also used for that day's photo shoot ($100) for a total of $425, not counting food, drink and taking everyone to the spa at the end of the day.
$425. For a little over four minutes of entertainment.
Ask me how much my short film cost me, that I did in 1998.
Go ahead.
Ask.
Over *$5,000* and over two years to complete *and it never got distributed or seen by more than 20 people*. Five Fucking Thousand Yanqui Dollars.
As of my last peek, the finished dance video has been seen 71 times and in under ten hours of having been posted. It's past that as I speak, according to friends.
o.O
This is it. This. Right here. If you're serious about making film, hell, about making anything anymore? If you're not doing it? Right NOW? Right here? Dayjob or not?
You don't really want it.
The audience is waiting.
What are you going to do about it?
Vaudeville Goes To Hell, here I come.
Here's the thing.
Between the Mad Model and I, the whole thing took less than a day to shoot, less than two months to edit and get on the Internetz, or if I count actual time spent editing, less than two full days to edit and get on the Internetz, *and*...I'm happy with it.
o.O
All that it took was studio rental ($150 for the day), one each Flip Ultra HD Camera ($175), my existing iPod and speakers for sync sound at the studio, one each white backdrop which was also used for that day's photo shoot ($100) for a total of $425, not counting food, drink and taking everyone to the spa at the end of the day.
$425. For a little over four minutes of entertainment.
Ask me how much my short film cost me, that I did in 1998.
Go ahead.
Ask.
Over *$5,000* and over two years to complete *and it never got distributed or seen by more than 20 people*. Five Fucking Thousand Yanqui Dollars.
As of my last peek, the finished dance video has been seen 71 times and in under ten hours of having been posted. It's past that as I speak, according to friends.
o.O
This is it. This. Right here. If you're serious about making film, hell, about making anything anymore? If you're not doing it? Right NOW? Right here? Dayjob or not?
You don't really want it.
The audience is waiting.
What are you going to do about it?
Vaudeville Goes To Hell, here I come.
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Sorry, thought you knew. This has been happening for about 10 years now.
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Some of us have been busy. And it's really only become this cheap, for this level of quality, in the last year. The last time I looked into making a film, the cost had only halved. This is now less than five percent of what it cost.
That's huge.
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Nah, the gear's been out there for at least 8 years. Not quite the quality, but definitely the price point. And it's an inevitable outgrowth of Moore's Law. And, by the way, it's about 9%, not 5%. And you didn't count in the cost of the iPod or speakers. Add that, and you're up to about $600, or 12%. Still, not too shabby. The ability to use a fully-digital production process doesn't hurt, either, as you demonstrated.
BTW, this is the same economics that drove my rendering farm idea under. Everything got too cheap.
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And no, iPod and speakers were free to me. Didn't pay for 'em.
I am just digging the way it's broken out. What had kept me out was that the quality was shit and couldn't compete with film. Sure, you could do crap for dirt cheap, but I wasn't interested.
Now. Now I am very interested.
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