9/3/2023 0 Comments Lights out short film festivalThat made it very hard to light on set though because she couldn’t be hit by light! It was also important to stick to the rules of the protagonist in the original piece and that she couldn’t be in the light. For me it was just liberating because when you make these super short shorts you don’t really have time for characters or much of a story so that was the fun part for me, to be able to expand on what I had and go into these character’s backstories. It felt that as long as we stayed true to that concept, the film could be anything really. Did you have concerns about turning it into a feature and possibly losing some of that?ĭS: I wasn’t actually that concerned because the short doesn’t have that much of a story, it was just a concept we played with for two and half minutes. Theatre on July 19, 2016, in Hollywood, California. Sandberg attends the premiere of New Line Cinema's 'Lights Out' at the TCL Chinese. As we got to know each other they saw that I did know a thing or two and it got a lot better.ĭirector David F. I got the impression that they felt they were doing me a favor and they were wondering who was this guy who didn’t know anything. ST: How did the crew and the talent react to the fact that they were working with a director who had never been on a movie set before?ĭS: At the start, there was a little bit of friction. At times I felt like I just wanted them to give me the camera because I knew what I wanted but I had to learn how to give my vision to people and explain to them what I wanted. I had never worked with a crew before, it had just been me shooting and editing myself so it was quite an adjustment. How have things changed for you as a filmmaker?ĭS: For me, the biggest change is the fact that I had never been on a film set before so this was the first time and I was the director and that was scary. Jon Watts turned his short, Clown, into a film with the help of Eli Roth and $1 million - he's now directing Spider-Man: Homecoming. ST: You’re not the only director who has come up through this route in recent years where an online short has led to a Hollywood movie. I had no idea that a two and half minute short could turn into something like this. ST: At the time did you think of it as something that you could expand into a full-length film?ĭS: Not at all because we originally just made it for online for a film contest.
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