Basically I had to wear all the hats in my film. I had a camera guy in the beginning but he quickly dropped out because he has his own low buddie to start working on. Eventually I did find another camera man, but he lasted only a couple days, and then we was off to another province, but I did manage to keep some of the footage he shot for my film. My actress and me had to fill in the roles, because I couldn't get any actors. Thank goodness for the halloween wigs I saved from last year.
Then one actresses dropped out, an important role in act III of script. So once again with different costumes I got my main actress to play the role, but I did tell her to bring forth her best British accent. It worked. But since these was to be a twin character, I decided to make a pretend sister instead.
And for act III I met up with this supposedly actor, and wanted to fillm a role of half-brother to my main male character. Lo and behold a last second drop out. So then instead I wrote my character as 'ghost of the past.' My main character, formerly an alcoholic, gets drunk and conjures up image of his past self as a mask in the tree. They two characters end up in a conversation. I had to film this myself.
Eventually, I was wearing all the hats, caps, toques, wigs, and whatever else I could put on my head. Is for everyone, and can everyone do it, I say no. Was it difficult? Yes. Was it fun? Sometimes, sometimes not, it was a very challenging endeavour.
Would I do it again, probably not. If I had one more person to help me behind the camera that would of been fantastic, but that didn't happen.
List of hats I know of:
producer
director
actor
costumes
location scouting
script super
writer
cameraman
water (didn't really have to buy any food besides fluids)
editor
I know there are more, and I did them.
marcel