We may be able to take a lot of ideas from Travis Bains story. Cairns-based Travis Bain made Throwback with just $4000 of his own money. In his own words: “Throwback” was shot for a ludicrously low budget of only $4000 yet it has racked up ten international film festival screenings (plus numerous awards), and is set to be released on DVD across Australia, the UK, the US and New Zealand in 2015. The movie harks back to classic “creature features” and adventure serials and guest-stars Vernon Wells from “Mad Max 2” and “Commando.” I financed the movie myself - not a dollar of taxpayers’ money from any of the film funding bodies was spent on it! I know it sounds impossible to make a feature film with such a tiny amount of money, but it can be done. None of the actors got paid, except for Vernon Wells, but he was happy to accept a nominal amount. I was the entire crew, with some help from my lead actor and his 13-year-old son. I shot the movie on a 2007 Canon camcorder and edited it on my home computer. The fake blood we used was chocolate syrup and red food colouring. And the beautiful Far North QLD locations we used helped add to the production value. By begging and borrowing and calling in a lot of favours, we got it done. youtu.be/2akmz-IRZf8
Posted on: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 10:15:36 +0000