Since I was a child I have always dreamt of shooting films that demonstrate how amazing my country and my people are. Creating a film from nothing is something I have always admired about the great directors like Tim Burton or Martin Scorsese
When I came into The USA I realized that I need to learn how to produce a film. For me it is incredible how an idea can become a beautiful story in which a lot of people may believe in magic for 90 minutes. However, I know that It is not a simple task.
I watched for this discussion:
Robert Rodriguez - Ten More Minutes: The Anatomy of a Shoot Out
Planet Terror - 10 Minute Film School
The first video I loved the way that Robert Rodriguez makes his rehearsals with the actors. An excellent idea is to recording them just as he does to realize after what can be changed or improved. This works especially when you have a storyboard and you imagine something as a director, and then realize that in reality can not make that shoot and you have to look solutions.
In my country, I learned in my university how to take a perfect photo, how to create a TV show, how to edit a video and how to write a script. However, they never tough me how to put together all of these tools and build a movie; beginning from an idea to the end with my final product: a surprising film.
As a producer and director I understood that the most difficult challenge is to deal with the budget. They not always have huge amounts of money to record and we should find solutions to make the film. I had seen the movie "Planet Terror", and from a beginning I believed that the production had a lot of money for all the special effects. We know that The special effects are often carried a significant amount of money from the budget.
As Roberto Rodriguez explain in his videos we need to know how to manage our money and determinate what is important and what not. If we know how to improve our shooting techniques and we have creativity, we can save and time. First of all, we need to have very clear that in post - production we can do a lot of things. For example, use the green leg with the protagonist was a simple and inexpensive idea to create her “weapon leg”. After in edition they create the perfect montage in her leg. Like this he saved makeup, props and time.
Other thing that we should put attention is the actors that we want. They are a major contribution when we shooting the scenes. For me, there has to be a rapport between the director and actors, they must to understand each other and listen respectfully. My best example was Antonio Banderas and Roberto: they worked together like a team.
The film industry is about doing incredible things in a short time. As directors we have the time playing against. Playing with the camera, do tricks to complete the scenes, solve situations, among others, they are the things that make us great as directors. For example, in the scene Mariachi Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek, if Roberto not explained that he recorded first Antonio and then the actress, because she had not arrived, no one had noticed. A camera cut was enough to add her into the scene.
Working as the producer with The Wanderers I realized that although the budget is tight you can find ways to have everything you need on set. A few days ago I went with my art department several places looking for the best prices to create all the scenery that is required. For example, sometimes it is easier and cheaper to create a room to rent a house.
At the beginning we wanted to rent a house for the scenes that we need a room, however after a few discussions we realized that will be simple if we use the sound stage and create the room that we want. In this way, we could do as we wanted without fear of ruining absolutely nothing in the location.
Remember that everything is possible if we fight for it with our best, I learned a long time ago. As directors we need to work a lot with our creativity. Amazing things can be created on a tight budget.
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