Filming a script table reading is not a new idea. They use it on Amazon Studios. I thought it would be a good way to publicise script and help get movie made. So we can use it in festivals, it is aimed at niche filmmaker market.
The above YouTube video was shout on my iMac using Photobooth, iSight Camera and edited in Final Cut.
I want to include small interviews with cast and crew in the reading and some how to’s about how we shoot it and what limited equipment we used to do it.
I still have Canon XHA1 from shooting Pub Crawl, which uses Mini-DV tapes. So that will be main camera on a tripod and it will record the sound too.
I now have a Canon 550D with an 18mm to 55mm lense and some Nikkor prime lenses 24mm, 35mm, 85mm and 180mm.
The 85mm is F1.4 I used to use it for taking pictures of bands on push B&W film at 1600 ASA in small London clubs back in the 80’s. Lenses tend to stick around and I still haven’t sold my Nikon F3 or F4 even though 35mm for photography is pretty much dead.
We used The Hawley Arms in our last movie Pub Crawl and you can see the results with the Canon XHA1 in available light by looking at Pub Crawl episode 3.
I would like to use the new Apple Final Cut Pro X to edit movie and maybe try and include some editing screen shoots in the Movie.
Hopefully if we can get some funding on Sponsume, a UK based crowd funding website I would recommend. They even help out by improving what you write. I can do this once I figure out how do do movies of Apple screens using software. There is a link to our Sponsome project here.
If you are in London email me at harry@megachrist.com and come along I want to make it into an event filmmakers can attend. Audience will be included in film credits as extra’s.
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