Creating a Short Film 101: Intro

As you may have noticed by the other posts in this blog, I have been making some films, short films. At the moment they're in various stages of production, the shelf, ADR, script development, the film festival circuit or casting.

With my current short, that's in casting, tentatively titled "The Nightmare Trilogies", working title only, I have decided to document the process and create a "making of" book. I enjoy these books, you can usually pick them up at amazon and they are generally quite informative. They'll have a full shooting script, production notes, director notes, story boards, sketches etc.

So with print on demand publishing and the low cost per book, if you don't get too extravagant, it seemed like a great way to show off/share the way I make films. Then I thought, why don't I tell people the way I make films through my blog, when the film is done the book will  be available to buy.

So we have; "Creating a Short Film 101" blog series. In the series I will share the film making process for a short film, which isn't really any different to a feature, there area just less scenes to organise.

Posts to expect:
The Idea
The script
Pre-production
Casting
VFX
Location
Crew
Production
Shooting
Post-production
Now What?
The Festival Circuit

There may others in between, things I forget or think of to share, short clips from a shoot or bits of dialogue from the script maybe.

The idea is that you guys read a comment on the post, let me know if it sounds good, bad, like, hate etc.

So come back in a couple of days for the first installment. "Creating a Short Film: The Idea" soon!

P.S. The pic above for a short, Sweet Farewell I produced and directed Iurgi Urrutia a very talented Film maker from Basque, who lives in Australia now. Check out the FaceBook page for the film and we'll keep you updated as to when there will be more screenings.