{"id":479,"date":"2009-10-15T21:03:04","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T10:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rachaelturk.com\/?p=479"},"modified":"2009-10-15T21:03:04","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T10:03:04","slug":"uks-mia-bays-talks-micro-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rachaelturk.com\/?p=479","title":{"rendered":"UK\u2019s Mia Bays talks micro-budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_494\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rachaelturk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Mia-Bays-1_lores-1-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-494\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rachaelturk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Mia-Bays-1_lores-1-300x300.png\" alt=\"Window of opportunity: Mia Bays in Sydney\" title=\"Mia Bays\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-494\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-494\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Window of opportunity: Mia Bays in Sydney<\/p><\/div>\n<p>From small budgets, great things can come.<\/p>\n<p>It worked for Kieslowski, who believed that technical and budgetary constraints always forced a simple and often more ingenious type of creativity. <\/p>\n<p>Mia Bays, the marketing consultant for micro-studio Film London Microwave, agrees, giving here an anecdote about how budgetary limitations on the \u00a3100,000 <em>Shifty<\/em> forced even better solutions:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a great scene where Shifty is doing a regular drop to an older woman. As written, the woman has lots of cats. In pre-production, the production designer and producers said \u2018we can\u2019t afford real cats, and there\u2019s a risk they won\u2019t behave and you won\u2019t get the shot.&#8217; They pushed the director Eran Creevy to think about stuffed cats instead, to show her obsession. Soon, the flat became filled with cat trinkets; it followed right through the production design. Then one of the lead actors reacted spontaneously to the stuffed cat. Now it\u2019s now a really, really funny scene. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s happened several times on <em>Shifty<\/em> and on <em>Freestyle<\/em>, which is coming out in UK cinemas in February.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mia Bays will present the keynote address at 9.30am this Saturday at <a href=\"http:\/\/fringe.spaa.org.au\/\">SPAA Fringe<\/a>. Curious Film&#8217;s Michael Wrenn will talk about the Australian release strategy on Friday, 5-6pm at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rachaelturk.com\/2009\/10\/11\/this-week-at-fomm-shooting-micro-budget\/\">Friday On My Mind<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From small budgets, great things can come. It worked for Kieslowski, who believed that technical and budgetary constraints always forced a simple and often more ingenious type of creativity. Mia Bays, the marketing consultant for micro-studio Film London Microwave, agrees, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rachaelturk.com\/?p=479\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[110,109,111],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-articles","tag-british-independent-film-awards","tag-mia-bays","tag-micro-budget-filmmaking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rachaelturk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rachaelturk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rachaelturk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rachaelturk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rachaelturk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rachaelturk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rachaelturk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rachaelturk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rachaelturk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}