My first short film took over a year to make. Here’s why.
I starting writing the script in June 2021 but I properly placed the initial efforts into green lighting my short film onto pre production around early march 2022 with the storyboards as the 1st thing to do.I organised 1st pre prod meeting and hiring my film friends as above the line crew in July 2022. Casting finished in late April 2022. Outside of my group of friends, I externally hired a film armourer to cover the legalities along with supplying the prop weapons on set and a talented hair + make up artist for the femme fatale character. It cost around $5k in total to make. Some expenses covered by the exec producer and a couple of my mates but mostly from me. Equipment purchases Equipment rental costs Paying crew Paying cast Premiere costs. Merch costs Film festival fees I was busy working on other film related projects and other jobs in parallel to the production. The editor and foley artist didn’t start post production until December 2022. The colour grading o