The main point of Indie-Film making is the fact that it's cheap. Most people who make them, their only budget was what they spent on their camera. But some do take it seriously, but it's all about saving dinero.
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There are a few computer programs one might want to get familiar with, like Flash.
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Flash MX can be used to make scenery for movies in the blue screen effect. You can design figures and make them move with this technology. You can go to their website and download a three month trial, or you can get a student I.D. and buy the educational version.
One thing you must keep in mind is to keep your movies isolated around a certain area. Because in Indie-Film making you will have little or no access to places you will need to film at. Like a bank or a grocery store. You have to ahead of time to arrange when you'll be there. You can't just barge in.
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It's important to know what your limitations are in your scenery. Here we have a forest. It's availability is very good, mainly because no one will mind you using it. This is the free scenery, nature.
Some sets you make will cost money, and trash picking, and finding cardboard. Of course, you can't really make any thing to professional looking.
Scene from 2001: A Space Oddyssey |
Another example of a space set. |
Here we see a set from the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" made in 1968 and directed by Stanley Kubrick. This movie has a lot of high-tech looking scenery, which costs a lot to make. But what makes this movie interesting is Stanley uses the scenery as a symbol. In the movie, there's the Black Monolith of Logic and Reason. It's part of the scenery, but it represents something, in this case, the dawning of man and the rebirth of the universe.
Sets like that are quite unachievable to indie-film makers. Another type of set is a war set.
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we see a Vietnam War scene. Sets like these are hard to achieve because of
their general appearance. Like the debris and the tank. |
Alot of movies can use miniature props. Like space ships, or skeletons.
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These skeletons in the movie "Jason and the Argonnuants" are placed there by the blue screen effect. Props like these are expensive. So I usually like to use lego pieces in mini-models. |
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Your scenery can add to the effect of the time era in your movie. Like this old car, it creates a feeling of the 30's, being a 1930 Ford car. |
