Guerilla Arsenal

18th December 2007, in Video Projects (0 Comments)

Being an amateur/cheapskate/dummy (delete where appropriate), I’m using ordinary household objects as substitutes for professional filmmaking gear.

Inspired by people who think like this.
Some examples:

8,000 bob collapsible reflectors? I’m using the sun-shades they use in cars to protect them from heat. 200 bob each (MPPS or Motor Boutique).

5,436 bob muslin green screen? I’m using bits of violent-green sheets of A3 paper stuck onto a refrigerator carton. Sure, it sucks and it’s fiddly, but it costs 50 bob for 2 sheets of the paper (Nakumatt). And the carton was free.

Gazillion bob wind machine? Two large sufuria (saucepan) covers, operated by enthusiastic friends taking turns on either side of the cast. Free, if you don’t count buying the friends lunch afterwards and apologizing for cheating them that making videos was glamorous.

And so on. Will it show in the final product?

I certainly hope not. Fingers crossed.

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