Movie News | Movies.com: Before screenwriter Thunder Levin wrote about Tara Reid and Ian Ziering battling killer sharks during a freak hurricane in Los Angeles in Sharknado, he was scribbling Mutant Vampire Zombies from the Hood (starring C. Thomas Howell, natch) and penning other low-budget indies. The writer talks about his career trajectory in this video we spotted on Filmmaker IQ.
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The point Thunder Levin made about making the best show we can make within a certain scope is something we do everyday at school. Between the different levels of shows it teaches us how to squeeze every penny out of a dollar to do a $250, $350, or bigger show. How do we produce the best show possible within a scope. This ability is something that should be bragged on. When a theatre is looking for a new Production Manager or Technical director or any position to be able to show them what you were able to do and stay relatively in budget is a impressive skill. I can give you this standard of work with this much money. It is also a part of the mindset that the creative team has. How can we as a unit create the best experience we can within this scope and remembering that scope during the process.
Personally, I love Sharknado. I think that it is one of the most hilarious low budget 'Thrillers' of all time, and that cinema will forever be a different place because of it (if only a small niche of cinema). Though I saw him as a little pretentious, I did think that a lot of the main points he discussed about basic professionalism are incredibly worth while to listen to. Everybody wants someone who they can rely on to do good and consistent work for the money they are allotted, someone easy to work with, and someone who gets things done on time. Taken out of the context of Sharknado, all of these things are important skills for anyone who wants to work on a production team. Another really good point that he made is that a very large amount of the population have access to the equipment to make a low budget film, and that the make or break factor can be the creativity of the work, not the production value. Art is about experimenting, trying new things, and getting yourself out there so that someone somewhere might find value in the things you make.
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