It's a low-budget action film, and making this film is difficult. In Hollywood, you have action films where production people don't have to worry about money. If a shirt gets soiled, somebody picks up the phone and orders another shirt. For me it's different, if a shirt gets soiled, I have to figure out how to get another one."
Freeman used talent from around the campus area. He has a crew that he works well with, and occasionally stumbles upon an additional person to help. Freeman said that he was out one night in Chapel Hill, started talking with a guy and later found out that he was a musician.
The guy is now writing the musical score for "Thru Yonder Window Breaks."
Freeman's newest film has some dramatic changes from his prior two films, "Shutter" and "Curious George." He received a |
grant from the Carolina [Production] Guild to produce "Shutter." His latest film will run for around an hour, is shot on digital film, and has professional grade computer graphics.
Freeman discovered his love of filmmaking while studying at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. For a final project, he and fellow students made what would have been Freeman's first film.
"It was terrible," Freeman said. "We didn't have a clue what we were doing."
Freeman does have a clue now, and working with the community, he is confident that his latest film will be a success.
"You have to have a lot of cooperation with the community. The hardest thing is to find places like restaurants to donate their buildings for us. Many restaurants do not want to close down for a day so we can shoot. |
But the community has really supported us." |