4.66:42The Understudy
An actress discovers her replacement has been rehearsing her life, not just her lines.
Preview
Cold Open
A woman sits in the back of an ambulance she called herself, and will not say what happened.
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Notes from the maker
One shot, one performance, no cutaways. The whole film is the four minutes before she decides whether to speak.
The rain is real and the light bar is real; everything behind them is generated. Matching the generated ambulance interior to a practical foil blanket took more passes than the rest of the film combined, because foil is the one surface that shows you every mistake in your lighting.
The graze on her cheek is in the first frame. Nobody has ever asked me about it.
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Restraint is so rare in this format. Thank you for not putting a drone shot in it.