“D.R.U.G.S” is a short film which is made by Fiction Pictures
is an example as to the type of short film you can make with a standard budget.
In comparison to my short film, I will not have the skilled actors,
professional editing facilities and high quality equipment that would be
willing to work around my time schedule and for free of charge. This therefore
means that I will have to settle with standard equipment and inexperienced
actors.
Considering that my talent has agreed to act in my short film
for free, I can also request to use the school’s filming equipment and editing
facilities which will greatly help my budget.
However, seeing that my talent is unknown, it will help
emphasise the fact that my short film’s theme is based on social realism due to
most social realism films having characters who are unknown actors. When hiring
a crew, professional media productions often look for large crews including
As I would only be
requiring a small skeleton crew which consist of 5 people or under the only
crew I will be looking for is a camera man, lighting operator, sound recordist,
hair/makeup artist and an editor. This means that I can ask fellow classmates
to do these roles, therefore I would not have costs for hiring crew.
“Seahorse” is a short film based on drug abuse which is
made by Double Key Pictures. This short film can be slightly similar to mine as
the beginning of the short film has exterior shots which I am capable of
getting for my short film as well as the shots of the man being on the sofa.
However, the short film looks as if its budget is slightly
higher than mine due to having the props and rooms to look as if he is situated
in a hospital, which is something that may be difficult for me to achieve. The
actors are unknown which is common in social realism films in order to
emphasise the genre, therefore the lack of experience in my unknown actors will
not be an issue.
Despite having a much lower budget than this short
film I will still have access to editing and filming equipment, however I must
be able to find actors who are willing to be unpaid in my short film.
