What do you do if you want to revolutionize film production and cut expenses?

During pre-production site selection and studio selection are very important. This would eventually lead to accurate shot planning , including lighting composition on the shooting spot and shot divisions, camera positions and movements which are included in shot division. This would eventually lead to smooth shot making if actors satisfy the directors quickly.

To decrease budget production has to juggle between usage of state-of-the-art technologies and conventional shot making techniques. More usage of latest technologies will definitely increase budget for small budget productions in both machine and manpower charges, but will be suited to big budget productions. For very dynamic and risky shoots like train top shoots, speeding bike shoots shooting in studios with back projection is a very viable option. Better is the shoot lesser will be the hassles and struggles during post production.

While not everyone's preferred method, there's a whole new burgeoning approach to filmmaking, thanks to generative AI. It vastly empowers 'cinematic authorship' for pennies on the dollar under minutes instead of months. Independent auteurs can now produce cinema with unbounded scope of imagination, from their desks. It is really akin to becoming a manga artist or director of anime, except now your frames can look photoreal or in any style you want and be brought to life with generative voice acting, lip sync, and now emerging full facial and full body generative performances. The tech currently has some ways to go, but its extremely rapid, potent advancements indicate an inevitability for the new filmmaking opportunities this unlocks.

I am totally in favour of usage of digital lights during shoots and locations requiring minimum constructions to fulfil the requirements of shots. Going all digital will eventually require more power battery cells and dumping and scraping of electronics parts which gets discarded due to constant upgradation of technologies and facilities given to humans. So a proper balance has to be met until every digital gadget scrap gets recycled and reused proving unharmful for humans. Going green is always a good option.

While currently experimental, filmmaking alternatively through generative AI is probably the most dramatic way to cut vast costs and increase sustainability of production studios and their projects. While generative AI datacenters do indeed use large amounts of power and water for cooling, these costs are already targeted for reduction with imminent new chip designs optimized as exponentially more powerful and efficient. Eventually the amount of compute at a filmmaker's disposal from their desk or phone and infrastructure efficiency will be so high, that generative filmmaking will collapse budget needs and environmental wear and tear near completely. As such, it may very quickly become the most Green way to create cinema ever.

Director of the movie must be open to accepting cost reducing techniques and ideas without sacrificing the creativity aspect of the shot in the movie.

Better is the shoot lesser will be the Hassel in post production . For VFX part director needs to be in constant touch with the VFX team to get the exact output without incurring excessive cost.

Generative filmmaking is revolutionizing production and post-production / VFX. Often, the entire shot can be generated 'in camera' from AI, requiring no post-production efforts to complete it. AI does this so well, in fact, that manipulating shots manually afterwards often is less desirable because the generations do it better, more coherently, with incredible amounts of detail, all near automagically in unbelievably short amounts of time. What used to be a very tedious, painful, and expensive pipeline is quickly being collapsed into image & text prompts to get the shot. It is still early days with this tech, yet it's advancing so fast that truly competitive quality with manual VFX may arrive not in a decade or two, but in a year or two.

I have learned that most of the successful filmmakers, videographers, content creators are the ones who did things differently. They either wrote differently , shot differently, or edited differently. It is almost impossible to stand out doing everything the same way with everybody else. Breaking the rules and creating something excitingly new is something we should try to do often.

Ignite the spark of innovation by embracing cutting-edge technologies like virtual production and AI-driven editing tools! Dive into the world of collaborative platforms to streamline communication and reduce overhead costs. Consider adopting sustainable practices not only to save money but also to lead the charge towards a greener industry. And remember, every creative challenge is an opportunity—think outside the traditional storyboard to find cost-effective solutions that amplify your artistic vision!