Robert Rodriguez shot his first feature film, El Mariachi, on an old borrowed 16mm camera with two borrowed lenses. He lit it with practicals (light bulbs), he recorded the sound on a Marantz tape deck, he cut it and mastered it on Video tape.
It cost him a total of $7.000. Everythiung included.
From a technical (theoretical) standpoint it would have been considered total crap, yet it was a major success. He went from a nobody to one of the hottest, highest paid directors in Hollywood because of that $7.000 technically crappy movie.
Photography is childsplay compared to making a major feature film.
That industry is cut throat, cold hearted, do or die, put up or shut up business driven, cover your *** or lose it territory...and nobody cared what camera he used, how he made the film or where he learned to do it. The film was brilliant, period; and a hoard of no risk, cut throat, hollywood studios were begging him to take millions of their hands for anything he wanted to shoot.
Just food for thought.
Happy new year
It cost him a total of $7.000. Everythiung included.
From a technical (theoretical) standpoint it would have been considered total crap, yet it was a major success. He went from a nobody to one of the hottest, highest paid directors in Hollywood because of that $7.000 technically crappy movie.
Photography is childsplay compared to making a major feature film.
That industry is cut throat, cold hearted, do or die, put up or shut up business driven, cover your *** or lose it territory...and nobody cared what camera he used, how he made the film or where he learned to do it. The film was brilliant, period; and a hoard of no risk, cut throat, hollywood studios were begging him to take millions of their hands for anything he wanted to shoot.
Just food for thought.
Happy new year