Today, I’m excited to finally share the first trailer for our new feature film The missing boy.
This is a feature I’ve been writing for the past year – with next to no budget and no crew.
It begins as a comprehensive creative experiment with a simple thesis: narrowing things down to their most essential elements will yield the most innovative creative process and the best end product.
While I could have made the film bigger, raised money through investors, and taken a more traditional route, I did the opposite. I shot the film without a crew, using equipment I already owned, and with actors I already knew or worked with.
Making the film this way allowed us to shoot it in an unconventional way, spreading the schedule over the course of a year. We shoot for days at a time and then it takes weeks or months to edit and rewrite.
This allowed the story and characters to develop beyond what a typical feature film could achieve, and created a depth and texture to the finished film that couldn’t be achieved any other way.
disappearing boy It quickly became my favorite project to date, both in terms of the finished film and the process we developed along the way.
As I prepare for my next film (which was recently funded by a distributor and will be shot this summer), I will definitely take a lot of lessons from this experience.
I’ll be sure to share more about the process for both of these features soon.
But now… watch the first official trailer for Gone Boy below!
It just launched, so if you like it and leave a comment on the YouTube link above that would be really helpful.
Thank you for watching this film and I hope this film continues to serve as a case study in how anything is possible when you accept limitations.
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