Dreaming about shooting a feature? Or want to get more bang for your buck on your next short? Try these tricks! Many filmmakers suffer from what I call Citizen Kane Syndrome: thinking their first feature film MUST be their magnum opus, the essence of perfection, or else it’s not worth making. The problem is, this line of thinking is creatively paralyzing. I avoided even thinking about a feature for years because smart-filmy-people told me that if I wasn’t shooting with Zeiss CP2’s on an Alexa (or antique anamorphics on 35mm), then I wasn’t a “real filmmaker,” and I might as well quit now. One crazy, oversimplified notion broke me out of that way of thinking—a hypothesis that goes as follows. A short is just a short feature. Think about it... think about it... yep, that checks out. I didn’t have a filmmaking problem. I’d made about 30 shorts—well over 120 minutes of content. I had a problem with the way I was thinking about features. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Thursday, 19 November, 2020