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Producing A Low Budget Short Film: Pre-Production

June 3rd, 2010 | Posted by jasonmckinnon in 17 West | Featured Posts | Filmmaking | Producing | Screenwriting | The Climb

Producing Short Films

17 West Productions, recently wrapped another low budget short film called The Climb.

We started pre-production right around the time I began this blog.  As a result, there are a ton of posts on this site dealing with virtually every aspect of the production process.

Click here to catch up on The Climb

Right now, I’m just about finished rolling out a series of posts on our 3 day shoot and I’m planning a recap as soon as the final post is published.

I also thought it would be a good idea to collect all of the posts I’d written leading up to the shoot.

Many of them deal with the challenges of producing a short film on a low budget.  It certainly wasn’t easy…

Click here for a detailed look at how much the movie cost us to make.

  1. 17 West’s Newest Short Film Is…
  2. The Climb’s 1st Location Scout
  3. Screenwriting: Rewriting The Climb
  4. I Like Working
  5. I Like Working: The Follow Up
  6. Meet The Cast Of The Climb
  7. Storyboarding When You Can’t Draw
  8. Designing The Tattoos
  9. 17 West Productions’ Brass Meeting
  10. What A Busy Week
  11. The Director Of Photography
  12. First Tattoo Sketches And Tests
  13. No Budget Filmmaking: Producing A Short Film
  14. The Need To Edit A Movie
  15. Improving The Screenplay
  16. Pre-Production Day
  17. Final Make-Up Tests
  18. Wardrobe And Props
  19. Rehearsing A Short Film
  20. Tweaking Your Screenplay
  21. Directing Short Films: The Calm Before The Storm
  22. Making Progress
  23. Making A Short Film: The Little Details
  24. Final Location Scouts
  25. It Begins!

Hopefully, this gives you a look at how we pulled off our latest short film.

The Climb will probably be our last low budget short for a while as we are now actively planning some bigger and more ambitious films.  However, it was definitely a fantastic experience!

Stay tuned for more on The Climb’s production process including more on the actual production as well as in depth details on the post-production process.

The Climb Short Film Toronto

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