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Rice Paddy Field
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Rice Paddy Field

My original script, written in my AFTRS Screenwriting class as an exercise, opened in a rice paddy field. I never imagined, when I first wrote it, that I would ever get the chance to film it ANYWHERE, let alone in the exact location I’d chosen.

Down the line, when I began to question if it was possible to be rewritten as a short film and actually made somewhere, I began to think of budget locations I could use to simulate an asian rice paddy field.

Somewhere in Cairns might be tropical enough, but do they grow rice there? Yes, but differently – not wet paddies. How about Bali? I’d never been to Ubud/central Bali where the paddy fields are, but suspected it would end up being not very budget to get cast & crew there.

In the end, it wasn’t as “budget” as I’d have liked, getting cast and crew to Siem Reap – but I stumbled on an ingenious plan to make it much cheaper than it otherwise would’ve been.  This involved the discovery of “Filmmaker Abroad” – but if you’d like to read more about how I got it all organised, please read the post on The Morning After short film, from my Trashtastika blog.

Anyway, this is a pic from our recce day (checking out the location that our on-the-ground fixers had arranged for us). Ticketty-boo!

I’m not sure if those magnificent cows will end up in the final cut, but we sure filmed them. More than once we had to leap out of the way with our gear, to let the enormous creatures through. More on production problems resulting from using a wet rice paddy field to come in another blog post too 🙂

DATE November 11, 2016 CATEGORY Design, Production TAGS landscape, location, rice paddy, Siem Reap
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TRASHTASTIC PRODUCTIONS presents, in association with FILMMAKER ABROAD, THE MORNING AFTER with LUKE MIDDLEBROOK TEP RINDARO and marie kvaløsæter director of photography ROCCO FASANO camera assist BEN FRIESEN sound recordist FELIX PARNELL music by CAMBODIAN SPACE PROJECT sound mix by TRISTAN MEREDITH edited by LUCY PAPLINSKA produced by LEANNE MANGAN and SEAN COUSINS screenplay by LEANNE MANGAN directed by LEANNE MANGAN director mentor SEAN COUSINS
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