Senior VP of Programming at INSP, Doug Butts, breaks down where, how, and why you should shoot a western on a budget. So, you want to make a western. First, you need to know your audience—and not every offering in the genre is going to draw the same crowds. In the indie world, it’s often the revisionist takes on the western—think Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow and Chloé Zhao’s The Rider—that insert themselves into critical conversations and offer fresh perspectives against the backdrop of the genre. But traditional westerns are still getting made all the time, with many of the same high-speed, low-budget methods characteristic of productions outside the studio system. South Carolina-based TV and film outfit INSP specializes in the latter. The network’s Senior VP of Programming, Doug Butts, says its filmmaking formula focuses on what works. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Friday, 25 September, 2020