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By Benjamin Piñeros / July 6, 2011 / in Pre-production / 2 Comments
Costume design in
Servicios Públicos was an enormous undertaking for such an inexperienced crew like ours. We had the huge challenge of designing and creating garments for 25 extras for under $800 dollars. Money was scarce, coffee was strong. How on Earth were we going to pull off a black & white
Blade Runner with so little money?
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By Benjamin Piñeros / June 15, 2011 / in Principal photography / 2 Comments
We didn't know how the Sony Cinealta was going to handle the blue screen, and I was clueless about how to block the scenes in that huge blue sea with very little physical reference. So we made many cinematography tests before our definitive HD shoot in order to lock a lighting scheme and have every single shot nailed and rehearsed.
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By Benjamin Piñeros / June 10, 2011 / in Pre-production / 14 Comments
Servicios Públicos is a science fiction short film along the lines of Orwell and Huxley, that depicts a day in the life of Angel Samsa, a petty thief that dares to defy the authoritarian government of a stylized and gritty version of Bogota, Colombia.
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