96 of 90 : further planning...
So the short film plan goes like this.
For those late arrivals I wrote a script for a short film for a film competition, the original plan was to shoot it in time for a short film competition but I hit a couple of technical hitches, mostly the location I wanted to shoot at wasn't available, so it has been delayed and put back a few times.I was going to borrow a friend camera that shoots in high definition but now he is probably going to sell it on and it isn't the most up to date resolution anyways.
To rent a camera that shoots high definition quality video (as in what a lot of short films are coming in on nowadays) is about £50 a day. My short film production would be about 2 days of shooting.
To buy such a camera (a digital SLR to be precise) is between £650 and £700.
If was planning on buying on it seems a waste to spend a £100 on borrowing one.
So if I put a bit aside after each payday for it, I could have one in say 6 to 8 months.
Now I want one now now now.
But really what would I do other than look at it? Truth is that what I am thinking is a bit beyond my skills at the moment, having expensive kit is nice but it isn't the be all and end all, and as I have covered in a previous post I have things I can use now.
So if I start saving after the next payday that gives me 6 to 8 months (an academic year more or less) to get my skills up to scratch for when I get my eager mits on it and IMMEDIATELY start putting it to good use.
So production will be put back until then, which allows more time to prepare (get people organised, shots, tests etc) and while I save up I shall :
- learn to use my editing software on my computer
- full come to terms with all the settings, and tricks on my current digital SLR so I can transfer them to new one when it arrives (plus it REALLY won't hurt to get as much out of snapping away with it as possible in terms of photography)
- plus I can snap out a storyboard on my slr.
- have a good nose around a few online film making tutorials (a lot of people who make digital shorts often post a behind the scenes accompanying video)
- go back through my filmmaking books from uni to get back up too speed on some of the lessons there.
- use my camera phone, iPod touch and mini dv camcorder to shoot some other things (maybe tests, maybe some actual shorts)
- also figure out a way to get some good quality sound recorded
This is my new additional plan, I've planned additionally to the writing one.