1) This was around April 20. You could start your film at any point in May, as long as your two weeks finished by the end of May. This gave people up to three weeks of pre-production. Or, if you're me, time to find a story and write it.2) Final cut got switched to fine cut. As I pointed out, color correction and sound mixing can make a film substantially more watchable without really affecting content, so we might as well allow for that.3) The final film had to be at least 60 minutes long, which is the minimum length for a feature. If that meant a 15-minute shot of a tree, so be it.4) There was no competition. It was more a friendly, 'I'll do this if you do it too' sort of thing.In the end, three of us decided to do this. Reid, myself, and Mike Peter Reed, a filmmaker in the UK whose film Crooked Features I once reviewed. None of us had a script or a treatment or anything beyond a few random ideas floating around our heads, but filmmakers always have that. And with less than a month to prep, there wasn't much time to find funding. This was going to be no-budget filmmaking in the purest form.Up next: Anyone got an idea for a film?
"A sinister cabal of superior writers."
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Article comments
1 - Dave Nalle
Cut to the chase. Where can we see the brilliant output of this project?
BTW, a 2-week shooting schedule is not impossible. They shoot hour long TV episodes in less and at high quality, and there are plenty of straight-to-video indie films shot in 2 weeks. Most suck, but every once in a while the result is something pretty cool.
I'd argue that this is more of a challenge to your expectations than to what is possible.
Dave
2 - Lucas McNelly
Dave,
a 2-week shooting schedule is certainly doable.
This is not that. This is 2 weeks to shoot and edit. We shot it in 4 days.
Thanks for reading and stay tuned!
3 - Reid Gershbein
You can see the other #2wkfilm for free online here:
The Dabbler...
The Original Soundtrack
Natural Victims (from the second round)
4 - Bryan
The most difficult part of a two-week no-budget shoot is finding cast and crew who are willing and able to give up two full weeks of their lives for no money.
As someone who worked on a two week shoot of a feature in September, I'm looking forward to the rest of this series!