A Film in Two Weeks: Assembling the Team  By    |   Thursday,
January 28, 2010 Filed under: Film Tags: , , ,  This is a series
documenting the making of Blanc de Blanc, a feature-length film
shot and edited in two weeks. The finished product is screening
around Pittsburgh. Or, you can pre-order a DVD from the webpage.
Part III: Pre-production  You know how when you watch the bonus
features on a DVD and they show those pre-production meetings
where everyone's sitting around a big table in a big room?
Everyone's got a copy of the script they've broken down, a big
pile of notes, and a Starbucks to-go cup. They all seem so
organized. You know the ones I mean? I've never sat at one of
those tables. In the no-budget film world, that scene doesn't
exist. We have our meetings in someone's living room or at a
Starbucks or, if you work on one of my films, at a bar.
Actually, if you want to get people to work on a film without a
budget, buying beer goes a long, long way.  Of course, we don't
have a script to break dow