Here’s the Price of Fame: $218.32
"Tarnation is a very strong statement for low-budget filmmaking,” she said. “It’s a testament to what someone can accomplish with simple desktop tools, and exciting and encouraging to see how much can be done with so little.”
Van Sant described Tarnation as “amazingly original,” and the kind of film he’d been waiting to see since the 1970s.
“People assumed that one day film would be as accessible and inexpensive as writing, and now it practically is,” Van Sant said. “For the price of a typewriter, you can make films with sound and burn them on a DVD…. Filmmakers can afford to work now. No more excuses, or filmmakers’ block, or procrastination. Either they start shooting, or they are waiting for the vanity crew, or they aren’t filmmakers.”
Thanks to David Bryant for the heads up on this article from Wired. It illustrates my belief that digital technology is freeing the visual storyteller to focus on the story and not the hoops required to get a film made.
