JOSÉ M ª Jesús López ESPARZA The caravaqueño Melgares,'Susi', has embarked on recording his first short, 25 minutes, based on a torturer of the dictatorship.
The production has been made on a shoestring, with a budget of 400 euros and among several friends who have worked selflessly to bring up noise scissors.
The idea was born of a young Hispanic student of 26 years starting this course and a Master of'Guion cine' in Salamanca, passionate about literature and cinema, which claims to find a great source of inspiration for writing news events works.
To develop this script, Susi noticed the story of a torturer Franco called Billy the Kid.
Initially developed a micro-theater work in three scenes, with two monologues and dialogue has finished adapting to film.
Hence "having both the short dialogue," admits the director and writer of the project.
The script took to produce it more than five months, approximately October last year, and says the idea would not have gone ahead without the efforts of Juan Antonio Ros, director of the project, read the script, believed in the work and convinced him to film.
Both recognize that would not have been possible without the help of a team in which all are essential.
The pre-production began in April and filming began in early August;
four days were over fifteen hours, the director categorized as, although very hard "a very enlightening experience," and that "until you do not get, do not know what is."
He is currently in post-production, specifically assembly so confident that by the end of the year you can be ready and submitted to festivals to arrive on time.
The music is also made between Susi, Ros and Leticia, pianist sister first.
In the project have turned altruistically two professional actors who live theater, Javier Soto and Fernando Ripoll, plus several friends and some of Caravaca Murcia.
In total, they have worked together about twelve people, that through own team favors and have managed to bring the material out.
Budget shortfalls, contributed largely by the precursors of the project, has launched his imagination, to the point of self-manufactured equipment such as a crane and a holder with pvc sleeves to perform certain planes.
Ros acknowledges that, despite being a very low budget project, "makes you want more than can 'internet and there are plenty of videos and information they rely.
Moreover, because the short has two locations in a single stage, that the City got cede them the key of the old school Our Lady of Consolation, in the center of Caravaca, which has been closed for fifteen years.
Survivability
'Prometeo', Codenamed with the foreign torturer'Jesse James' baptizes prey awakens in a ruined, bruised and tied hand and foot room.
The torturer lays the foundation of the game, opening a briefcase full of scissors and begins the interrogation.
'Prometeo' Will have to delve into his past and measure their ability to survive in order to escape alive.
The work mixes references to Greek mythology, with references to the fire which Prometheus stole the gods to give to mankind and which was castigado- along with the American western to end up getting an atmosphere of black film and the thriller It features 80 photographic influence of symmetries of Kubrick, visual references of minimalism in Hunger, Steve McQueen, and the idea of ​​a long script and few spaces to Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs, although "far removed from its peculiar way of understanding violence, "says the director, who, despite his influence, tried to get a short 'pretentious'.
Hence it has been rolled into a single space and the interpretation of only two actors.
Source: Agencias