Useful!: Writing For A Low Budget: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALICE CREED

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Notes from writer/director J. Blakeson:

Excerpt:

"When I wrote the script for “The Disappearance of Alice Creed”, I assumed that if I wanted to direct it myself, I would probably have to pay for it myself. So I knew I had to keep it small and contained. Even before I had a story, I had a set of rules…

Use 1 location for 90% of the film.
Only have 3 characters
Don’t write anything that I couldn’t achieve myself on my own money.
If you use a prop, keep using it over and over (because why source and pay for something that will be only screen for just under 2 seconds?)
Keep it simple. But make that “simple” as complex and difficult as possible.
But why these rules? Purely practical reasons: There are only three actors (and not, say, 4 actors) in my film because I happened to know 3 actors who might agree to be in the film. The reason I wrote most of the film’s action in an apartment is because I live in an apartment. So I had a free location. No expense. You get the idea…"

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