MARRAS - Award-Winning Medieval Short Film

Some background: The preproduction and production phase of MARRAS was self-funded, and for a typical indiestyle I had to handle all aspects from location scouting to storyboards, costumes, production design, and prop making. Among other things, the main character’s costume is almost completely parsed by me and the trap pit was dug into the forest just for the one day and then filled. My wife taught me to drive sewing machine, a friend to use chainsaw. Actors and other crew were found from the family and next door neighbour. We filmed through the fall, now and then. Five person crew included me as a director and DoP, two main actors, make-up artist and my wife as a production assistant/catering person etc etc. Shot the film with Sony A7III Batis 25. There is maybe 1-2 shots where I used Sony kit lens 24-70mm. Ronis S gimbal was used 95% of the time. Haze machine was always with us and tried to use haze everytime it was possible. It wasnt the most plesent job to carry generator into the woods but I’m glad we