From the course: Creating a Short Film: 01 Producing
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Creating artificial limitations
From the course: Creating a Short Film: 01 Producing
Creating artificial limitations
- Our short film, The Assurance, was created specifically for this training series on Lynda.com. So in creating the film I had two choices, I could do what I've always done, put all my familiar tricks and make a pretty decent movie. That would definitely help make me look like more of the expert on the subject. But I found that I actually learn way more on film projects that don't go according to plan, but we never get to see that. We never get to see the first drafts, the rehearsals, the rough cuts. All we see is the final polished versions of movies. So I decided to put some limitations for myself on this films that would make it impossible to do well and while this was kind of tough on my pride, I knew that it would make much better training. So, what were the limitations I put on myself? Well, pretty much everything I've ever done has been comedy, that's where I feel comfortable. In my personal life, in my career, comedy. So, for this project I knew that comedy was then out of the…
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