Movie magic on a low budget

“We worked under a so-called ‘Digital Flow’ concept, which is truly paperless,” he tells Tenn magazine. “We installed the hardcopy on a cloud service such as Skydrive or Dropbox. We also used Google Doc for all the paperwork involving the shooting schedule, locations and even conversations between our team – it was all digitally based.”
Like his father the veteran director MC Chatrichalerm Yukol, Adam is an Apple fan, and his production team was fully equipped with Macbooks, iPads and iPhones to keep things easy. He also boasts about using a fancy BMCC (Black Magic Cinema Camera), which costs less than Bt200,000, quite a savings from the customary RED camera found on movie sets, which would set you back at least Bt2 million.
Adam says his family knows Peter Jackson well, so he got to watch the Kiwi director experiment with a BMCC while shooting “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit”.
The camera proved a godsend in one scene involving a bird’s-eye view – a regular camera would have been just too heavy. “We shot in a newly built, sterilised room at the Bamrasnaradura Infectious Diseases Institute. The place cost Bt3 million, so they told us not to touch anything.
“But the BMCC is lightweight and requires only 15 minutes to install. That was a big help because they gave us only six hours for the whole set-up and shoot,” he says. Adam admits he was lucky to have the prototype camera. “There are only 70 around the world and just the one in Thailand. I was really lucky to be the first to use it.”
He expects the BMCC to become the next big thing in filmmaking because its low price means student directors can get one. Needless to say, the big studios will certainly welcome the savings too.