An improvised short about a bickering couple on a holiday in the Caribbean; storied, shot, edited and directed by Simon Fraser; dialog and performance by Dave Pearce and Jennine Profeta; produced by Diana Galligan; music by Jim Clayton.
This short was the impetus for creating the IMPROVideo Project.
If you’re going to cheat labels away from camera and you have multiple labels in the scene, make sure that the labels are not all facing the same direction. It is a highly uncommon experience to see all beer labels at a party (for instance) all facing the same direction. It destroys the reality of the image you’re trying to pass off as real.
Auteur is the lowest common denominator.
An actor rises to stardom and falls from grace over the course of one night. Produced by Paul Andrew. Written by Simon Fraser. Directed by P.A. Castel. Starring Simon Fraser, Lisa Burling, Peter Ivaskiv, Mick Southon.
I think it’s possible to let your problems work for you. They can affect how you tell a story, but any story can be told any way.
The simplest possible method to tell the story is for you yourself to deliver the story directly to camera. And there’s even different ways of doing that – video/film diary, home video/movies, various styles of news report, documentary/mockumentary, etc.
That’s the simplest. Everything else is an expansion of that.