Putting the Pieces Together of the Quality of Life
So we've this rather fun new book about to come out and some of you might have even inadvertently come upon a reference to it in last Sunday's New York Times piece on graffiti movies, called Graffiti Cinema Turns Moody" The book—Putting the Pieces Together—is a behind-the-scenes/screenplay tie-in to the film Quality of Life (now out on DVD, though still having theatrical screenings here and htere), and it also has a big section on DIY movie-making.
The punchline of all this though is that they've a great video podcast. Click here to watch the first installment, and here to add the RSS feed and this is a little bit of what Ben, the director, has to say about this vodcast:
Making Quality of Life was sheer hell. Our lead actor dropped out. We lost our jobs. Personalities clashed. We were always worried about the cops shutting us down. We never had the money to do anything we wanted to do. Every fricking step was a struggle.But we adopted The Graffiti Model to get the shite done. And in the
process, proved that money doesn't mean anything, and passion means
everything.This vodcast series will pull back the curtain and tell the
compelling, behind-the-scenes story of how we made (and distributed)
this film with no money, against all odds.As you know, we have no ad budget to speak of, so we live or die on
guerilla marketing and word-of-mouth. Every person you share this with
is another link to proving you don't need money to be heard. It's all
about you, the grassroots.