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DEVIANT PERSPECTIVES: If Looks Could Kill…

“But this is indie action cinema, Nick, no one has any money. You need money for those things, right?” Wrong. You don’t need money to make a good action short film nor a good looking one. It’s really a matter of being particular on what you want to present visually. Two weeks ago I released my newest short film, Black Betty. The film required a very specific location as it was written to be a “NightClub” run by Sergei, a Russian gangster. For the final film we managed to get a restaurant location as a special favor for the planned two day shoot, we then adjusted our plan to fit the space since we didn’t want to look a gift horse in the mouth.

DEVIANT PERSPECTIVES: A Constructive Analysis Of Independent Action Cinema

In the world of action cinema, quality certainly reigns over quantity; A single well choreographed, well shot action sequence can excite more than two and a half hours of “lights and noise”. However even in action films both large and small, not much is mentioned of the things that had to come before that DVD started spinning in your player. Action filmmaking is highly technical, more so than most other genres that tend to offer more creative interpretations of on screen physicality. Being an indie filmmaker is already tough, but indie action filmmaking takes those challenges and complicates them even further.