>> ^Reefie:

My TV license fee was used to make THAT?? What is THAT??

Don't worry, Attention Scum had a low budget to suit its awful timeslot, and has never been repeated. Personally I think it's one of the shows I'm proudest to have funded.

Interesting, in a slightly disturbing way.

I like the music quite a bit, and the creative means of hiding the moderately-low budget were pretty neat, too.

@Abel_Prisc: Seriously, I don't care how low the budget is, if it's a bad film, it's a bad film... if it's good, then also good. My issue is the CG looks fake, and there's a point where you should go, "You know, our budget can't stretch to this effect, let's do something more creative"... but no... they just fill it with CG that looks like CG.

So, no I won't watch it just because it's all low budget...

El Mariachi was that, was shot for $7K, and it was a blast to watch...

Hey, this film could be awesome, I just don't buy this 'hey, it was done by 1 man and a box of matches, WATCH IT!' malarky, it should stand on its own 2 feet. (You know... if film had feet)

The production budget was reportedly just US$15,000.



So I guess it's become super-cool to say your production budget was tiny now - but that number is just dumb.

You can't make this film on $15,000 actual dollars. How much time went into it? What's that time worth at even half industry rates (for things like editing, CGI, sound work)? Heck, what's it worth at minimum wage? The only way you get the number that low is you get people to delay their pay (ie. you have a percentage later), and you creatively exclude other expenses so that your budget looks smaller coming in (I already had the laptop and camera! We were going on holiday to Mexico anyways!).

I'm happy to hear a film is low budget - low budget movies that make it to me are usually pretty good (thinking of Primer here). But this ridiculous "how long can we go" contest is silly and disingenuous.

If I build a house by chewing down trees and shaping them with my teeth, I don't have a free house - literal dollars parted with aren't the only costs that exist. Similarly, these people don't have a $15,000 movie - and I suspect that they literally spent more than $15,000 as well.

I'm just waiting for M. Night to lose funding so he can make some decent low budget horror/suspense flicks.

Wow, I didn't realize she was so deep in the gutter. Nothing screams, "Restart my career" like a low budget music video. Invoke Cute someone, credit where credit is due.

I really need to get some more sifts, so I can promote other people's videos. This one truly deserves it, too. Ah well, maybe someone will notice it in the recent comments and promote it for me. If so, thanks in advance.

Just finished watching this movie, and I'm extremely impressed. The flick reminds me of Dark City, Lady in the Water, Moon, and even The Dark Tower series by Steven King, although I couldn't say why. It doesn't really have any particular resemblance to any of those, except maybe for the well executed low-budget special effects (which did seem reminiscent of Dark City).

The best part is the world they created...a world hidden just under the flesh of our own, unseen by any of us, yet totally convincing and believable (while the movie was playing anyway). This is the kind of world-building that so many darker films have tried (thinking Underworld and similar flicks), but this time they actually succeeded.

>> ^spoco2:
>> ^Throbbin:
The horses weren't harmed. It's JUST A MOVIE PEOPLE!

Are you truly saying that? You REALLY believe that? You don't watch that and think.... hmm, that looks like horses being tripped up by a wire and being dumped right onto their necks? You don't think that this is such a low budget piece of crap that it doesn't have an effects budget to fake that, so they just did it with real horses?
I really hope you don't see stuff in films like this and go 'hey, it's just a movie'. You don't watch snuff films I hope.


Chill out spoco. That was my attempt at humour.

>> ^Throbbin:
The horses weren't harmed. It's JUST A MOVIE PEOPLE!


Are you truly saying that? You REALLY believe that? You don't watch that and think.... hmm, that looks like horses being tripped up by a wire and being dumped right onto their necks? You don't think that this is such a low budget piece of crap that it doesn't have an effects budget to fake that, so they just did it with real horses?

I really hope you don't see stuff in films like this and go 'hey, it's just a movie'. You don't watch snuff films I hope.

Just the fact that low budget British sci-fi is getting some love is awesome... while some might have seen it as predictable, that could be said about most movies anymore, at least moon had thought, and an amazing performance by SR

Kind of amusing, as I still have a little hope way, way back in my head that one day the Duke will actually be released.

What saddens me is that anyone could think that this is an actual trailer for anything.

And people do and have...

That makes me sad

Do those people not even bother going to the website mentioned and seeing that it's a Finnish Indie film company?

Or... even just from watching it seeing that it's very low budget and doesn't use any voice acting at all?

Really people... I weep for critical thinking once again.

Great video, only he can't really blame armchair scientists for not checking out scientific literature. Because most of that is only accessible at high price or via university subscriptions (at very high cost for the university).
We need science to go into public journals. The high price for articles goes mostly to the publishers of the journals. While the submitting scientists get almost nothing for the paper, only a place in a big journal if he's lucky. And the peer review of the papers is also usually done for free. Therefor all science should be published in big open-source databases. It would give everyone access and also allow much better technological improvements, because even people with low budgets could work on these things if they were open.

Some young girls have no idea what they are getting themselves in for when they turn up to an audition...

They turn up to Hollywood all full of hope, and end up in low budget dirty history flicks.

Look like bad CGI of Bane's transformation for a really low-budget Batman movie.

The magical flashy pants might qualify him as an entirely new supervillian, though.

Sadly, neither. I didn't get accepted to a single law school, and I'm not even close to making a film. I'm actually in pretty much the exact same position I was a year ago, since I'm reapplying to law schools and still working on getting a film made. Though I'm writing a script right now for a film that can be made on a really really low budget, so hopefully that'll happen. A friend of mine (who is younger than I am) recently shot a feature film, and I swear to god I want to punch him in the face.

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So it's September 09'. Which is it? Film or law school?

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>> ^kulpims:
Roman, 34, from Slovenia, ...

How's your cousin Nico doing? Haha, I crack myself up.

Seriously: Michael, 26, from Toronto. I have a BA in political science, and a bit over a year ago I graduated from film school, and have since been struggling (unsuccessfully) to make it in the film industry. I recently decided that it's probably about time to give up on that and go to law school, so I'll probably be doing that in September 2009 unless some miracle happens and I manage to get a feature made. When I'm not wasting time on videosift, I'm wasting time going to the movies or playing video games. And that's pretty much all there is to me, as sad as that is.