Seven hours of footage, ten days to cut it, and proxies shipped nightly
A three-day guerrilla shoot in Benidorm with a crew of three and a £2,000 budget. The saving on the shoot turned straight into a problem in the edit, and they solved it by cutting during the shoot.
Colin Peppard's video for Makeshift Art Bar's "Discipline" is the clearest low-budget account we found this year, because he states every number.
Schedule 3-day shoot in Benidorm, about a month from pitch to delivered grade
Crew three
Camera Sony FX6 and "a huge bag full of vintage lenses" (models not stated)
Footage 7 hours, cut to 5 minutes
Post a week and a half
So we pitched the idea, flew to Benidorm, shot 7 hours of footage, edited it, graded it within the space of a month, all with only a £2k budget.
The whole shoot was extremely guerrilla; Oisín carried the camera (Sony FX6) and a huge bag full of vintage lenses varying in sizes.
The trade nobody warns you about
No permits: permission was asked on the spot, at each location. That is what makes three days affordable. It is also what produces seven hours of material for a five-minute cut, because when you cannot control a location you cover it from every angle you can get.
The fix was to stop treating post as a separate phase. Proxies were shipped to the editor every night so she could cut while the shoot was still running.
Crew named: Oisín McFarland Smith (DP), Annie Walsh (editor), Jake White (colourist), Claudia McCormick (producer). Subject: Sean McNicholas, a Harry Styles tribute performer.
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