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Creative Corner => Filmmakers' Workshop => Topic started by: Spike on October 12, 2003, 04:44:52 AM

Title: Guerilla Filmmaking
Post by: Spike on October 12, 2003, 04:44:52 AM
Can anyody explain what Guerilla Filmmaking actually is?
Are there rules for it? Is it something like the Dogma-rules?
Title: Guerilla Filmmaking
Post by: kotte on October 12, 2003, 05:50:17 AM
Shoot withour permits...steal shots...minimum crew...often really lowbudget (doesn't have to be though)...

These are not rules like Dogme has rules...it's not the same thing.
Title: Guerilla Filmmaking
Post by: Newtron on October 12, 2003, 05:55:33 AM
First you must kill el presidente.
Title: Guerilla Filmmaking
Post by: Cecil on October 12, 2003, 10:59:38 AM
watch "cecil b. demented"

listen to the commentary track on "maniac"
Title: Guerilla Filmmaking
Post by: Redlum on October 12, 2003, 12:35:18 PM
Yes, see Cecil B Demented.
"Hey, hey M-P-A-A, how many movies did you cut today."


This books pretty usefl from the Guerilla aspect of things, if you're that interested.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0879305754/ref=sr_aps_books_1_1/202-0932472-6007062
Title: Guerilla Filmmaking
Post by: Cecil on October 12, 2003, 12:37:42 PM
Quote from: ®edlumcut

actually, its "censor" which is much more appropriate
Title: Guerilla Filmmaking
Post by: mutinyco on October 14, 2003, 09:01:32 AM
If you gave 100 gorillas a movie camera odds suggest one of them should be able to make a movie like Orson Welles.

Wait a second...gorilla...guerilla...oh never mind...
Title: Guerilla Filmmaking
Post by: SoNowThen on October 14, 2003, 09:41:48 AM
Quote from: mutinycoIf you gave 100 gorillas a movie camera odds suggest one of them should be able to make a movie like Orson Welles.

Wait a second...gorilla...guerilla...oh never mind...


Hehehe, Muty's best post ever.
Title: Guerilla Filmmaking
Post by: Stefen on December 29, 2003, 12:34:01 AM
Guerilla Filmmaking is just rocking a camera and crew like a video game. In and out, worrying more about getting busted without a permit than you are about checking lighting. Using that bar brawl you caught on camera as the basis of your whole film when 1/4th of the film has already been shot. Practice, Practice, Practice.
Title: Guerilla Filmmaking
Post by: prophet on March 09, 2004, 08:24:39 PM
whats gonna happen if you get caught without a permit?
Title: Guerilla Filmmaking
Post by: kotte on March 10, 2004, 01:06:55 AM
Quote from: prophetwhats gonna happen if you get caught without a permit?

Depends...on the size of your crew and equipment and how good an anus licker you are. If it's just you, a couple of actors and like one or two team members I don't think the police would do much...probably just ask you to leave...or they could fine you. I'm sure if the Spider-man 2 crew was caught without a permit they'd get fined :)
Title: Guerilla Filmmaking
Post by: pete on March 26, 2004, 11:31:38 PM
yeah guerilla filmmaking as a term has been cheapened by a bit.  It was first used to describe them persecuted filmmakers in Russia making political films critical of the regime, with no backing whatsoever, so they must just go out in the streets and do their shit before the police catches on.  Now like anyone can just claim to be a guerilla filmmaker--like jane goodall goes into the jungle with a camera and all of a sudden she's made a guerilla film.
Title: Guerilla Filmmaking
Post by: ono on March 26, 2004, 11:38:49 PM
Quote from: peteNow like anyone can just claim to be a guerilla filmmaker--like jane goodall goes into the jungle with a camera and all of a sudden she's made a guerilla film.
No, if Jane Goodall goes into the jungle with a camera, most likely, she's made a gorilla film.  Oh!

(Not to beat a dead gorilla or anything.)
Title: Guerilla Filmmaking
Post by: pete on March 28, 2004, 12:19:40 AM
whoa, you (possibly) got my pun.  Have a gorilla bar.