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April 22, 2005
Home made Films score big
Technology turns average Joes into mini-Spielbergs
The pinnacle of do-it-yourself financial success: the hit movie Open Water, produced by Chris Kentis and Laura Lau for $120,000. To make the shark thriller, the New York City-based husband and wife team invested $6,000 on two Sony "pro-sumer" digital camcorders, aimed at serious hobbyists, and $10,000 on an Apple Power Mac G5 dual processor computer, with Final Cut Pro editing and special-effects software.
Kentis and Lau did all of the camera work, and Kentis did all of the editing at home on his Mac G5. The film earned $31 million in U.S. theatrical release last fall, and is expected to more than double that in DVD sales and foreign screenings.
Posted by roymond at April 22, 2005 11:44 AM
Comments
Have you seen Tarnation? Not necessarily a breakthrough film in terms of creativity, but was edited using imovie on an imac. I think it had some critical success, and possibly made a buck or two.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390538/
Posted by: Hans at May 27, 2005 01:18 AM