Tuesday 1 September 2009

Intentionally rubbish

How do you make a trailer for something that doesn't exist yet, with no actors or footage? That's what I'm trying to work out at the moment. The answer seems to be to make it intentionally rubbish. I'm good at intentionally rubbish. I can do it well. If something needs a budget I'll get rid of it and make it for the cost of charging the camera. If something needs special effects I'll see what I can do using mirrors. It's a a principle that has got me this far (so, not far really), I'm not going to change now. I don't want people to expect how to be god to have, you know, expense. That would be false advertisement. The trailer needs to be made though, so I can give some idea of what the thing will be like. At the very least it will have moving images.

So the trailer for how to be god will be in cinemas soon. Yes. And 'cinemas' was a metaphor. It won't be in cinemas.

4 comments:

  1. Hm, people trying to get into or look into a locked room, or through a curtain? burst of light through the curtain implying miracles, but done in such a way as to show it's bollocks? Really crudely done chase scene of some sort?

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  2. These are good ideas. I was considering using puppets, but then I realised I don't have any puppets. I've got something worked out, it involves several dubious 'historical' artifacts.

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  3. If you don't have puppets, you could cut some out of paper and glue them to popsicle sticks. Same with the dubious artifacts. Very low budget, plus you get to eat the popsicles!

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  4. Popsicle puppets might just the limit of my arts and crafts ability.

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