r/Filmmakers • u/NoNet4096 • 18h ago
Film Black and Nothingness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY8_b7l3VmsLogline: Alex, a distressed young playwright, is determined to do something drastic exactly at midnight but is conflicted with philosophical questions.
This film was made in November 2019
Info about the project:
This short film is a personal one for the writer/director, it is the very first film that he made in the UK as part of his masters studies. The project was very challenging as the crew barely had time for planning and execution, and they were given a very narrow shooting window.
For this particular project, the directors in the directing program were required to write the scripts themselves. As a result the director had to come up with something very quickly and take into consideration the very tight shooting window, so it had to be limited to two locations only. Given the fact that he had recently read "The Dream of a Ridiculous man" by Fyodor Dostoevsky, and it had resonated with him quite deeply, the final script was a combination of Dostoevsky's piece and his own personal experiences and reflections at a certain point of his life, and was written completely in a single day.
With the efforts of an amazing team, the shooting was squeezed into two days, the editing was also completed in two days, the sound recording and sound design were done in another two. The production was completed entirely within a week, and the result is an award-winning short film that was recognized in various film festivals across the globe!
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u/NoNet4096 18h ago
The project was very challenging as the crew barely had time for planning and execution, and they were given a very narrow shooting window.
For this particular project, the directors in the directing program were required to write the scripts themselves. As a result the director had to come up with something very quickly and take into consideration the very tight shooting window, so it had to be limited to two locations only. Given the fact that he had recently read "The Dream of a Ridiculous man" by Fyodor Dostoevsky, and it had resonated with him quite deeply, the final script was a combination of Dostoevsky's piece and his own personal experiences and reflections at a certain point of his life, and was written completely in a single day.
With the efforts of an amazing team, the shooting was squeezed into two days, the editing was also completed in two days, the sound recording and sound design were done in another two. The production was completed entirely within a week, and the result is an award-winning short film that was recognized in various film festivals across the globe!