Take a low-budget lesson from Tom Pike's Personal Space, where a single shot inside one room pulls off a spaceship on a budget. Pining to create something magnificently sci-fi, but stymied by your lack of funds? Tom Pike and his frequent collaborators Dana Shaw and Zach Wallnau had always wanted to make a science fiction show in space. The only thing stopping them? The money! Compiling a budget for a 500-person spaceship with multiple locations and space battles was out of the question. Instead, they got creative with what they had available. “Making one set look really good is doable,” Pike told No Film School. With the limit of filming in one room, he got an idea from the preposterous real-life Mars One campaign, which stated it would raise the funds for an actual mission to Mars by way of reality TV show taped during the trip. The story for his one-room-sci-fi? Astronauts on a deep space mission (played by the late Richard Hatch and Nicki Clyne of Battlestar Galactica fame) have their therapy sessions unknowingly broadcast as reality TV. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Tuesday, 3 April, 2018