Once you've watched an exciting detective story, you may decide to create something similar. Of course, you are not a professional yet, but every director needs to start somewhere. After all, it's not for nothing that they say that success is 99% hard work and 1% luck.
It is necessary
- - script;
- - estimate of the project;
- - finance;
- - film crew;
- - digital camera;
- - Scenery;
- - costumes;
- - props;
- - actors;
- - a computer program.
Instructions
Step 1
Find the right scenario. For searches, use the sites www.ezhe.ru/vgik and www.screenwriter.ru. If none of the finished works suits you, take your favorite detective story as a basis and act as a screenwriter yourself. Bet on a movie that takes place where you have the opportunity to shoot, for example, in your place of residence. This will insure you against astronomical expenses on decorations. In addition to the artistic scenario, you will also need its technical version, in which each scene will be painted in terms of the required props.
Step 2
Make a cost estimate for the project. Think about how to cover the shortfall, if any. In "big cinema" there are producers for this. At the amateur level, you can try to find a wealthy like-minded person.
Step 3
Put together a team of technical staff. At a minimum, you will need an operator, decorator, dresser, make-up artist, and illuminator. When a movie is shot in an amateur mini-format, one person can combine several functions.
Step 4
Stock up on the necessary equipment, inventory, materials. Shoot with a digital camera is the cheapest quality option. You will also need lighting equipment, at least the simplest. To save on scenery, shoot on location and in residential apartments. The detective genre is very suitable for a modest budget, since its action can be fit into the existing reality.
Step 5
Select actors for the main and secondary roles. Conduct samples. Discuss royalties with the actors. If your relatives and friends intend to act in film, they will surely be happy to work not out of mercantile reasons, but out of pure enthusiasm. Distribute copies of the script to the actors, talk to each of them, discussing the image that needs to be embodied on the screen.
Step 6
Start your shooting day with rehearsals. If you are in doubt about how best to play a scene, remove several options - then you will edit the desired one.
Step 7
When the footage is shot, edit the movie on your computer. To do this, you can use free programs from the Internet: Windows Movie Maker, Corel VideoStudio Pro X4 and others.
Step 8
Demonstrate the result of your work to an accessible audience, and ask viewers to say what they think worked and what should be improved. Submit your detective story to www.youtube.com or try your luck by participating in an amateur film competition.
