r/Moviesinthemaking

Last year I had a bit of a panic because I was turning 35 and still hadn’t made a feature film.

So me and a few friends just decided to stop waiting around and make one ourselves with absolutely no money.

We shot the whole thing in 3 days.

The film is called Outer Heavens. It’s a black and white feature film with masks, long takes, static shots and a lot of improvisation. We made it by basically building rules around our limitations instead of fighting against them.

Our cinematographer Conor English only had 3 days free because of work and family stuff, so we said fuck it, let’s lean into that. One or two takes per scene. Long theatrical shots. Minimal lighting changes. Keep moving no matter what.

What was interesting was that the limitations actually started making the film better. Storylines started appearing while we were shooting. Characters changed. Scenes changed. We had to completely let go of trying to overly control everything and just follow the film where it wanted to go.

I just made a video properly breaking down the whole process because some people online seemed really interested in how we actually pulled this thing off.

Here’s a link if you wanna watch https://youtu.be/zcKrgWaYnu4?si=1z885zlmrJ1n0uCQ

Would genuinely love to hear from anyone else who’s made films under ridiculous limitations because honestly I think constraints can weirdly become the style itself.

What do you guys think and I don't know if this was true in the original script it was meant to show her a bit more in the film, it would have explained where did she go after the toga party and if she was still with Flounder again and she wasn't mentioned again. I wonder why it was all changed, well any suggestions well any suggestions about this?

What happened to the old TV shows format? I really miss when shows used to have like 8 or 9 seasons and 13+ episodes each season...this was the best era of TV shows and I think this is why new shows suck as well...

First off, every single new TV show always ends in their 5th season for some reason, now I get it...for some shows it might start to feel like a drag but if you have more interesting stories to tell then please do.

The current 8 episode format of almost every show airing right now really hurts it's quality because 8 episodes isn't much to end a whole arc or plotline without it feeling rushed...obviously Stranger Things was the biggest victim of this...it doesn't matter if they made every episode over 2 hours, the final episode still felt super rushed and people compare it's ending to the ending of GOT...because they didn't have many episodes...and right now, The Boys is suffering from that too, I wouldn't call season 5 bad but it really hasn't felt like it is the final season...if they had more episodes like 13 or 16, all this build-up would be completely acceptable but look at what happened, they have so many plotpoints they need to address in this final episode alone...

I really wonder why people don't make shows the way they used to be...it was always the better way.

Posting this here because they aren't allowing me to post it in the movies page