Making Blanc de Blanc in Two Weeks

29Jan/100

Making Blanc de Blanc in Two Weeks

Filmmaker Lucas McNelly is up to part 3 in his chronicle of the production of his feature-length Two Week Film Blanc de Blanc. As with any no-budget production done in two weeks, certain sacrifices had to be made...

4. Equipment. If you've ever edited video before, you know that logging and uploading tapes takes a lot of time. Hours and hours of time. We, of course, do not have this luxury, so it becomes a priority to try and find a tapeless workflow. No one in the crew has this sort of set-up, but my day job (at the time) is with a company that's affiliated with the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. I have an ex who works over there, but I haven't spoken to her in years. But this is no budget filmmaking. We do what we must. She's able to get me in touch with the head of the film and video department, who is kind enough to lend us a Panasonic HVX camera for the first weekend — free of charge. We're pretty sure my five-year-old Mac can handle the editing, so with a few firewire drives, we are more or less in business.

BONUS:
You can see the trailer for Blanc de Blanc as part of Natural Victims