Darren is an independent film maker and is known for his editing, directing and producing a variety of short films. As he is a step-dad to a fellow classmate we were fortunate to be able to have him come in as a guest speaker to share his knowledge about creating short films.
Whilst Darren was in our class, we watched a number of short films he had been involved with whether it be producing it or directing it. He inspired us all by saying 'this job is a passion, what I do day-to-day enables me to challenge my creativity and that anything is achievable, the only thing stopping something coming to life is you'.
All the films Darren has worked on has had a low budget but it was not obvious at all. He told us that in order to succesfull on a low budget 'you have to be a person that people want to work with for free.' Darren explained that he often ended up working with friends, co-workers and family to reduce the budgets of projects he has completed. Furthermore, he tends to re-vamp old props in order to make them look new as well as simply going to charity shops to find low costing props and even costumes.
One aspect he spoke about was the editing and he told us about the story where he was editing part of a advert I believe for a company and the producers and directors shot the footage they wanted and gave Darren a short amount of time to edit it all together. He said ''it takes 1 hour for every 1 minute of filming to edit'' therefore say if he was editing a movie, it would take him over 100 hours to edit the film together therefore the editing is the most time consuming process as a whole.
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