How To Get Creative On A Budget - Commercial Filmmaking 

I’ll do my best, I always go in with the best of intentions, but normally I’m pretty strapped for time when on a shoot so struggle to get much BTS when we actually get going.

Thanks so much Richard, really kind of you to say mate.

That’s very kind of your to say Mirko, thank you :)

Thanks Alex! Yeah, I should have mentioned that we did pre-interview the ‘real people’ that’s what narrowed it down a bit. I think the disconnect perhaps came from the budget not allowing for the creatives to spend much time on it. But the sort of thing I had in mind for example was based around something Richard said about how he loves grass and then goes on to talk about the soil, however, he didn’t say this in the pre-interviews, and when he did immediately I had an idea I thought would have been cool shooting a cross section into the soil so when he digs the dirt you see it break apart and his hand come down into. I ideally needed a fish tank and lots of black out to shoot this though, tried rigging some bits from scrap with the farmer that we did shoot, but it wasn’t quite working and we couldn’t afford to spend any more time on it. Yay for Suzi and Cam :)

@@ScottPetersFilms Ah got it. That makes a lot of sense. The 'love growing grass' line is such a great line, I can see how an extra day to cut the interview first would have helped.

On the to do list for asap 👍🏻

Thanks Richard! You know what… I actually bit the bullet on a RED V-Raptor in September, already been on a few jobs with me. I love the look and ergonomics of ARRI more, but don’t shoot enough days of the year to warrant taking out a loan for the price of what could be a house to buy the new ALEXA 35.

Hey Samuel, yeah you could shoot this on either of those cameras for sure. There would be discrepancies in the image, but not noticeable to the average viewer if you exposed correctly and had a decent colourist working on the final product.

@@ScottPetersFilms thanks legend