Brother, so happy to hear you shot it! CONGRATS. We just got off a short that took 3 days and had a similar budget to our feature, lol. Every Project is different. I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOUR FILM!

@@ZachRamelan True! And thank you! Hopefully post production goes well and I can share it soon!

Much appreciated! Good luck on the shoot!

He is a man though! Just use appropriate identifiers! smh!

Awesome! Thank you so much! You can check it out here: www.cinematicacademy.ca/

Unfortunately I can't share the budget of our film until we sell it. That said, our DOP legend Chris, lent us a lot of his gear because he believed in the film and will get compensated after/if the movie sells.

@@ZachRamelan Ah I gotchq. Relationship currency in this business will go further than cash. Always. Congrats on the successful shoot!

I’d say focus on aesthetics and a good film like you said. If it’s good it’s good, I mean go watch tubi !

YES!!!! Do SHORTS! make lots and lots of short films before features.

Glad it was helpful!

That's why we have a taste. Everyone's is different.

@@ZachRamelan Yep, but I mean: that's the overall industry trend, the tone and saturation; anyways I guess the 'vibrancy' is so anti-naturalistic

I dislike the clickbait title too. However anyone that watches this, seeing the gear / people / locations involved, and thinks it was “no budget”, has bigger issues than being deceived by a KZfaq video.

@@utooboobnoobTotally agree. He is just luring people into paying for his course thinking they can make these films with THAT many crew/cast, locations expensive equipment etc for no money. Don't forget there are a lot of gullible people out there, but it is really this guy's DUTY and responsibility to be open and up front about exactly what he spent or didn't spend.

Hey, unfortunately, I can't share the budget until we sell the film, but I promise this was for a fraction of what typical Hollywood features get made for. And yes, the price was close to what these big productions pay for craft services AKA lunch.

@@ZachRamelan That's kinda vague, because a big movie can have $300,000 set aside for lunch, but lunch for most people sounds like $20 or for a group of people $100 and we both know you didn't spend $100 making this film, with over 5 production companies listed on IMDB, including . "a fraction of what typical Hollywood features get made for." That could mean 2 million dollars as a typical Hollywood film is made for 40-150 million.

You could say that, but technically speaking from the other content on his channel, he really does a great job at showing the possibilities of making a great short film or a film in general for a little to nothing. It really comes down to preproduction and planning and building a story around resources that you have a story can be made anywhere, it’s up to you to figure out how to use a simple location like your apartment to make a film. I think what he is trying to do is show us that it’s not impossible and we don’t need to wait for a big budget or approval to create something filmmakers with the Camera, are waiting for an opportunity to get a budget, or investor to make their first film. The point here is that you should go outside and make something no matter the budget.

Thanks for watching the video. Unfortunately, I can't share the budget of the film until we sell it. To recoup my cost/time spent on this video (which was days), I'm plugging my own course. Sorry if it felt like an ad.

Thank you for sharing this @RonaldReidJr

@@RonaldReidJrYou can literally take an iPhone and make a film in your apartment. That was not my point. He made this seem like they made it for nothing, or as he said for the price of lunch, which is just ridiculous, when they have 5 production companies listed on IMDB, but he is making it appear it can be done for nothing at that scale.

@@ZachRamelandon’t listen to that frickin weirdo OP - i thought this video was super informative. I’m brand new at shooting short films and I think this was great

YES! Hate on him all you want, there's lots we can learn from the Bay style of filmmaking

@@ZachRamelanagreed I'm also learning from you. Keep it up bro.

Thanks!

YEAH!!!!! I'll see if I can get our colourist Walt on!

@ZachRamelan literally waiting right here until he arrives!!

Absolutely! our next film is heavily rooted in sound

YES!!!! HAPPY to have you on it!

GO ask! Find a local business, tell them about what you're doing, and maybe even offer your services to shoot a promo for them if it's a location you really like.

Thanks for the response Ill be sure to do that! @@ZachRamelan

Not yet but we're in the middle of finding a home for it on a streamer

@@ZachRamelan dope, I’m definitely going to watch it when it does come out

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I agree! We got to this point by shooting hundreds of bad-quality videos with good stories. Eventually the quality of video meets the quality of content.