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Here are some interesting highlights of this format of film making: Just like Guerilla Film Making, Fly Film Making is another interesting form of film making.
Spike Lee's - She's Gotta Have it - has received continuous critical acclaim for the efforts.
This was a film made in the guerrilla film making format.
Here you literally use all that comes to your stride in the shortest span of time possible.
The concept of fly film making was conceived by the organizers of Seattle International Film Festival around 10 years back.
As the name suggests, here you make films while you are on the fly.
This challenge is taken up by three teams every year in the Seattle International Film Festival, showcasing Seattle's film making community.
The challenge is to conceive and make the film within 10 days.
Fly film making is a concept that has been borrowed by the other festivals in the current years.
It is actually a great crowd pleaser.
Though it seems just alike the latest Fox show- On the Lot - some differences are yet there.
The basic model never-the-less is similar to that of SIFF's Fly Film making.
Here some interesting facts of this challenge: 1.
3 separate teams are made to gather all that they may need to make a fly film.
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The time frame given to them is about 10 days.
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Within these 10 days, you will have to conceive & create the film.
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The film's run time can be any thing between 5 minutes and 22 minutes.
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Judges view the films and announce the results at the festival.
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The teams start preparing themselves almost 3 weeks before the festival starts, that is the arrangement part.
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The team comprises of director, producer, director of photography, sound engineers & actors.
Further it involves the post-production facilities.
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Finally the entire team meets and works out the final details.
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The last ten days that is the actual period for making the film, all the three crews are left free to work out their own way.
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Even the music is done while flying by the local composers & recorded by some professional musicians.
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This challenge does not consideration the cost factor and avoid unnecessary politics that often comes up as a hurdle in creativity for the normal film making processes.
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This challenge anyhow, becomes difficult due to the fixed time frame.
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At the end, the participants get amazed with their own efforts.
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The final results of their efforts make it hard to believe that the film was made in merely 10 days.
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Actually film making becomes time consuming due to the time taken in decision making.
With the time constraint coming in to the scene, the participants carry on with whatever they get on hand first and this saves the time spend in making decisions and discussing the ideas.
In case you would like to experiment fly film making, it is a great experience, but you would have to arrange for your own camera & work out the post-production procedures.
This experiment might be easier for a film making student.
As a student, you can make use of the school's equipment loan program.
You can also avail the post production facilities free of costs.
It would be a challenge for you on the individual front as it would teach you how to economize your time & resources for a short film.
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