Due to the fact that the quicktime file is only about 3" by 3" in size, I could not tell whether this was shot on 16mm or 35mm. If anyone knows, I would greatly appreciate it if they could pass along the information.

I think it was shot on 16mm. It gets hard to tell when watching little .mov files.

Nota "Tipped off by the Duart credit" Mono

Hi, I'm the director of "The Old Man Who Cried Shark!"

we shot on 16mm. 35mm was waaaaay out of my budget. even 16 was a stretch, but we did it anyway.

any more questions, let me know. thanks for the interest.

matt white

Where'd you find all actors and actress's ?

If you don't look I'll force you to _=_

Yeah, seriously! You are really lucky, you know that?

"Don't breathe or I'll kill you!"

hey sorry it took me so long to write back. hope you guys still check this out...

anyhow, the old man answered my add in Backstage Magazine, a popular magazine here in NYC to advertise roles for theater/film/TV etc. Mim was a friend of mine from church who i knew was a great actress. Lou the husband was a local Pennsylvania real estate agent who liked to do theater on the side. and Tommy was a friend's younger brother.

and yes, luck played a HUGE part in it. especially with the old man.

thanks for asking...

matt

Thanks for making great films, got any projects on the go? Can we expect more stuff from you on studentfilms?

If you don't look I'll force you to _=_

well...i've got a ton of credit card debt i'm still trying to pay off thanks to shooting and finishing "shark!" on 16mm. so financially, i'm in no state to make another short film...yet. and since i'm not a student anymore, i guess it wouldn't qualify. i could put some of my smaller projects up from film school, but they're not as "professional" as this last one. but we'll see.

thanks for the interest though.

matt, we need a www.no_longer_a_student_but_too_broke_to_do_any_better_films.com website.

I know plenty of people who'll join.

joren

BTW, while we're on the subject, would you mind terribly giving a brief budget breakdown for your film?

Sure thing...

the bulk of the budget went to the 16mm film.

buying it cost $1700. developing it and transfering it to beta so we could edit on avid cost $3000. then to take it BACK to film, i had to pay a negative cutter ($3500), get titles made ($2500), and have a couple prints made before they got the colors right ($1500).

To save time, i hired a professional to do my sound design and mix ($2400 with discount). Chuck in some video copies ($500) and posters ($600) and it starts adding up real quick.

I saved myself a lot of money though. All the actors worked for free, as well as the crew. I got all my locations for free. It was a 10-day shoot, my parents paid for food and housed my crew and a friend housed my actors for free. My friend is a commercial editor so he cut my film on Avid for free (saving me thousands!!!) My composer worked for free. so i did save a lot.

I got 95% of the equipment from NYU (for free...kinda), and only spent about $300 on other lenses and equipment rentals. renting a U-haul for all the stuff cost about $400.

The grand total came out to just over $19,000. I know, that's a lot. but at NYU they taught us that as a general rule, expect to pay $1000 for every page of script or every minute of finished film. My script was 25 pages long and my movie is 28 minutes long. and i spent $19,000. so i did pretty well.

unfortunately, a lot of this money came from my credit cards. i did manage to raise several thousand dollars, but i still have yet to pay off a large chunk. it'll probably take me a year to pay it off completely. but i've got a film i'm happy with, so to me it's worth it. and when it's projected on a big screen it looks GREAT.

but i won't be financing any more short films by myself for a looong time.

sorry for writing a novel.

thanks for the info regarding your film, i enjoyed watching it and it was nice to hear the behind the scenes story, thanks again, BSPEED