This filmmaker takes you through pre-production all the way to the festival circuit. This post was written by Robert Gregson. I recently finished the festival run for my award-winning psychological thriller short, A Good Couple, and it just premiered online over at Film Shortage. From pre-production through post, here are some of the most useful things I learned throughout the process of making this film and my other shorts. Check out the teaser below. Pre-production Workshop the Script & Vision After a few drafts of the script, I shared it with a small circle of friends for feedback. I discovered that there were opportunities to remove exposition, change things about the characters to enhance the conflict, and clarify the logic of the film. I also mapped the story beats against Dan Harmon’s story circle, which helped me restructure the story so that certain beats came earlier, and the ending had more of a sense of calling back to the story’s start while showing a shift in the main character’s world. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Thursday, 6 October, 2022