Friday, October 1, 2010

Pre production saves time AND money

First, watch this video:

The Satin Dollz in "Whatever Lola Wants" from Dan Blank on Vimeo.


Now Watch this video:

The Making of "Whatever Lola Wants" from Dan Blank on Vimeo.

A couple things to watch. 1) The upper left corner is a pre production animation of what the director wanted the video to look like. 2) The bottom left corner is what was actually shot. 3) The right half is the finished product.

While a few of the scenes are easy to tell they were green screened, several of them look seemless. I've tried Green Screening before and frankly I sucked it up. However it was a valuable learning experience and I fully recognize where I went wrong.

The lesson here is to plan everything, literally everything, out so that you don't waste time (and thus money) on the set.

Oh and by the way, the final budget for this music video was around $2,000 - that's pretty darn cheap.

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