37' comedy-drama movie + 72' film production documentary
2021 independent Romanian film in English language
The Locationist is a 37-minute dramedy in the English language created by filmmaker Georgia Mihalcea with Romanian crew and cast .
It a proof of concept for a digital series that was designed to be also a stand-alone long short. The film is complemented by a 72-minute making-of documentary made in reality-show style. Both can be watched as a package on vimeo VoD (click the title). The Locationist reviews on IMDB here, I'll leave some headlines below:
"An exceptional dramedy that will leave no one unaffected."
"Original and ....it makes you think"
"A dramedy that makes you breathe life and live it to its fullest!"
"Smart, fresh and crazily genuine!"
"A film of feelings."
"Funny, fresh and feminine."
The film was an official selection in the 15th edition of the Film Festival of Indie Producers in Romania (IPIFF 2021) organized by UPFAR-ARGOA (Union of Romanian Film and Audiovisual Producers and the Romanian Association of Audiovisual Works Management).
The Locationist production in numbers:
4 days of production
11-15 team members, depending on the day
21 pages script
5 script versions
2 cameras (Sony FX9, Cooke lenses), used only on complicated scenes
3 characters on screen, 2 characters off-screen
2 picture vehicles
22 scenes: 20 exterior, 2 interior, 6 dialogue
2 locations
5 shooting settings
444 takes
15 hours of raw footage
1,5 T storage
25.000 Euros budget (film only)
55.000 Euros production value (film only)
1,5 months of pre-production
Start Project: July 2020
End post-production: film - January 2021, production documentary - August 2021, teaser web series December 2021 (work in progress)
Financing (film only): co-producers contributions (I, as main producer, apx. 68% + apx.20% three co-producers) + sponsors & friends and services contributions apx.12%. Promotion and distribution related expenses not included.
The Locationist scorecard in the Shore Film Fund 2020 screenwriting contest (for the original version of the script that had 15 pages and lacked the first 3 scenes and another 3 in between):
Plot: 8.50/10
Characters: 8.00/10
Format: 9.00/10
Originality: 8.50/10
Style: 8.50/10
Dialogue: 8.50/10
Pacing: 8.00/10
Current Market Potential: 7.00/10
Hook: 7.50/10
Characters: 8.00/10
Format: 9.00/10
Originality: 8.50/10
Style: 8.50/10
Dialogue: 8.50/10
Pacing: 8.00/10
Current Market Potential: 7.00/10
Hook: 7.50/10
Total Score: 8.20/10
Trailer (The Locationist, 2021)
Film production documentary - an 8-minute excerpt
The first three vids from the teaser series about how we did various scenes of the movie - wrapped in a edu-entertaining format to help the film's promotion across social media platforms.
Stills and a photo with us from the set
