What is your intent to achieve with these just over eight pages/minutes?
(Link to the related technical thread:
http://www.indietalk.com/showthread.php?t=33742 )
- Single actor, yourself I'm guessing.
- Single setting
- Found objects and regular clothes for costumes.
- (You don't... require any make up, right?)
- No After Effects-like SFX required, you could probably do it 50's B&W old school, a la Hitchcock, lotta
Dutch angles and distortion.
- Dialog and acting don't require big emotional stretches, could ask a thespian-ish friend to do it. Role could actually be mildly modified for a female.
- You MIGHT not need separate audio record for this. Y'can probably do the bulk of it with the on-cam mic.
- Simple cut editing and audio. Keep the soundtrack waaaaay in the background. A little post-prod
foley.
I don't think you'll win any shorts competitions with this, but it'll be simple enough to produce either all by yourself or with an actor and yourself behind the camera. The movement will help a lot.
Video cameras really benefit from some STEADY handheld documentary style work.
A lot of the exclusive tripod work looks pretty... dead. Stale. Dessicated. Even the pan shots.
You doing this just for youtube/vimeo?
Know what resolution and frame rate you wanna use?
Any special lenses (wide angle or fish eye)?
Using in situ "natural" lighting or gonna get some shop lights?
Gonna build a track?
I see from the other thread you have editing software that'll allow superimposition. Coool. Should make some of this easier.
Don't forget to try in-camera effects as often as possible, like over the shoulder shots into the mirror.
In fact, just to be a possible PITA, you could shoot for both exclusive in-camera old school - AND - material for superimposition. Edit both (in all of your spare time) and see what audiences think of the difference.
What did you have in mind for altering the screenplay?
What did you want more or less of, or
"feeeeeeling".