The Art of the Reshoot: How the 'It Ends' Team Saved Their Indie Horror Feature
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The episode discusses the unconventional journey of the 'It Ends' team in creating their indie horror feature, focusing on financing, production challenges, and the importance of reshoots.
Writer-director Alex Ullom and producers Carrie Carusone and Evan Barber break down the unconventional path behind It Ends, their micro-budget indie horror feature about four friends trapped on an endless road. They explain how they raised their initial financing, leaned on their filmmaking community, turned production limitations into creative advantages, and used multiple rounds of strategic reshoots to transform an early cut that wasn’t working. The team also shares how they cut a Jeep in half to shoot on an LED volume stage, navigated an expensive and complicated post-production process, premiered at SXSW, and generated enough grassroots momentum through the online horror community and Letterboxd to ultimately land a theatrical release with Neon. In this episode, No Film School's GG Hawkins and guests Alex Ullom, Carrie Carusone, and Evan Barber discuss… How graduating from film school during the pandemic pushed the team toward making an independent feature Raising the initial micro-budget through unconventional investors, personal connections, and community support How Florida State University’s alumni equipment package made a $30,000 feature possible Why paying crew…
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