DSLR Feature to be shot, finished, and released in 23 days.

For the love of god, tell me he's using like a rode VM, or a couple of VM pros. Bump the budget up to a grand, and get some "decent sound." (From the way I'm understanding it he's talking on camera audio?)

EDIT- Forgot the air quotes around decent sound that I made in my head while typing.
 
Azmyth said:
I was in the music industry for years before moving to video. Its much the same. Technology made it so that anybody with a few bucks to spare and a computer could record a "record". Which in turn caused there to be an over population of artists and content, which was good for the consumer but bad because most of it was crap. Luckily for us, at the end of the day a "good film" is a "good film" whether it was shot for 10 bucks or 10 million.
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And luckily, people aren't so slow to realize what GOOD is, either. The more you're flooded with the same old, the easier it is to see through it. It's kinda like a female (or male) who constantly dates the wrong type of person... sooner or later they start to see the obvious signs and avoid it.

Thus, this influx of bad and worse material is actually going to help the real deal people in the long run. You just have to stick it out.
 
he just announced that the film is completed in 4 and half days its shooting.
I saw some production pics last week, they look mediocre. Hope the final product won't resemble the same.
 
Looked like DSLR footage. Not necessarily a bad thing. The only thing that bothers me is the audio dubbing. It sounded like it was in a studio.
 
Before ranging on the audio too much, consider that the is from a completely foreign film community where dubbing is the norm. The 35mm productions are always done mos. Life would be much easier if we were more forgiving of dubbing. Getting usable location audio is often the biggest hurdle in no budget productions is often the biggest give-away of no budget in the finished product.
 
dop16mm said:
Before ranging on the audio too much, consider that the is from a completely foreign film community where dubbing is the norm. The 35mm productions are always done mos. Life would be much easier if we were more forgiving of dubbing. Getting usable location audio is often the biggest hurdle in no budget productions is often the biggest give-away of no budget in the finished product.
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Yes, that's true, many people outside the U.S. are accustomed to listening to dubbed sound in all their films, even the ones in their own language. When I read that they were using the camera audio, I figured they were just going to dub in the end.
 
James0b57 said:
Yes, that's true, many people outside the U.S. are accustomed to listening to dubbed sound in all their films, even the ones in their own language. When I read that they were using the camera audio, I figured they were just going to dub in the end.
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It is very common to dub the audio. Almost all the films use this. Its quite hard in a country like India to get locations that suitable for on location recording. The major problem is crowd controlling. No matter where you shoot the news will spread and spectators will be there. There was only once I know a film with on location sound, but that was shot in a studio :)

PS: RGV's latest film released last week and it was a disaster. The actual theatrical release postponed for certain reasons for one week and he finished this DSLR film in that week and released the trailer with the film ;)
 
Does anyone else think the footage looks kinda video-y? Maybe something about the gamma. I feel like there might even be a few shots that broke 180 degree shutter.
 
I'll at least say this: props for trying. Regardless of how it turns out, I can definitely give the filmmaker(s) some credit for attempting and (hopefully) finishing.
 
My 2 cents.

A few shots had overexposed backgrounds and stuff imo, not a huge deal and not super distracting, understandable given your time frame but still an area that can be improved.

The "handheld" cam look probably works for this film (although I don't really know what is going on as it is in a language I do not speak) however some shots the shake looked very amateur, possibly actually handheld with no sort of rig? the ones that really stand out to me are at :08, :20, and :30 seconds

Your framing is an odd choice to me. It may be a foreign cinema thing, and it may be because I do not fully understand the story, but aside from OTS shots, your subject(s) seem to be almost entirely framed in the center. Not that this cannot serve a purpose in some situations but to have it be a constant thing can sometimes take away.


Anyways it is hard to judge on a lot of it as I don't know the story, will there be English subtitles added at any point?
 
I thought it was pretty decent given the time frame. No better than most other stuff I've seen done though.
 
"My primary intention of doing the film "Dongala Mutha" in just 5 days was to first learn for myself how it is actually practically possible to use present day technology with a crew of just 8 people including me and then through that, to drastically cut time lines and costs in production of films

Like I mentioned before, no one in this film has been paid. It has been made only with those actors and technicians who were excited to be a part of this project. All the people who worked for this project will only be paid after the release of the film that is, if and only if the film makes profits."

I suppose paying your crew on a cash break, deferment or other profit-based scenario is a lot more promising when you've published your budget as effectively zero? Okay, let's say that it has now been proven, once and for all, that a film can be shot for nothing and move on. Should we all be expected to work this way now? I'll pay you Tuesday if you kindly make my movie today?
 
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