We tried various angles, from posting old films and trailers and even attempting to gain traction with travel videos while living as digital nomads. When that didn’t work, we began incorporating creative educational talk with those travel videos, in the hope of trying to reach a more engaged audience.
Soon it became clear to us that our channel was unfocused and our lack of consistency in posting new videos was not helping either. I had a good chuckle when I saw the banner I had created for the Nexus Production Group YouTube channel. On the right hand corner it states ‘fresh videos every Sunday’. We haven’t posted a new video on a Sunday in over a year.
Read MoreNoam Kroll is an LA-based filmmaker and a well-known proponent of micro-budget filmmaking. Ivan Malekin was lucky enough to interview Noam about his new feature, “Disappearing Boy”, which he filmed with no crew. In this interview Noam reveals exactly how and why he made a film this way, but also talks about the benefits of micro-budget filmmaking and his creative and work philosophies in general.
IM
I'm amazed that you pulled this off as a one person crew, I think it's a little crazy, to tell you the truth. We shot a feature late last year, and for most of it was myself and my partner Sarah were the only crew. Some days we had an production assistant as an extra pair of hands, but we were absolutely exhausted at the end of each day. When it was done, we were pretty much burnt out. So the fact you would have done this all by yourself is just amazing to me. Would you do this again?
NK
I definitely would. And I think it's funny because I totally hear what you're saying and like I've had those experiences too, where I've had small crews or done things just with a friend and then felt exhausted. And I think I've done it enough times that by the time I made this film, one of the intentions I had for it was that it would feel sustainable.
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