Pay As You Go - Full Short Film [2024]
Pay As You Go - Full Short Film [2024]
Pay As You Go follows Stuart, a man unable to connect with the people around him. Unable to talk to women and unappreciated by his friends, he just wants to be seen for once. After a series of rejections, he's forced to seek out the company of a stranger.
This film explores themes of loneliness, social incompatibility and self-soothing escapism.
Due the use of guided improvisation, the majority of the dialogue in this film was devised by the performers. We did our best to create real situations to place the actors in, letting it play out and only guiding where needed. Because of this would to thank and give credit to the performers in this film who brought so much to their roles and really helped shape the tone and reality of the situations shown in the narrative.
Cast
Stuart: Alexander Barker
Jade: Tuhki Halcyon
Alex: Reese Overington
Erin: Madison Macgregor
Sharron: Leah Kirkup
Steve: Situ Feng
David: David Clarke
John: Ted Riley
Mike: Jacob Page-Smith
Girl with Alex in the kitchen: Syeda Tumu (Tam)
Guy at Party: Harry Marshall
Girl at pub: Charlotte Mansfield
Guy at pub: Joseph Knowles
Crew:
Directed by Scott Burchell
Produced by @lipmouth
Music by @ThePaperwaits
Assistant direction: Tom Burchell and Simon Roper
BTS content and transport: Jakob Winterborne
Boom Operator: Josh Liesicke
DOP, Post production and camera operation: Scott Burchell
Additional camera operation: Josh Liesicke
Shot on the Black Magic Pocket Cinema Camera 4k (BMPCC 4k)
After thoughts:
I’ve always gravitated towards art that instead of making strong statements, asks strong questions that allow the audience to participate and bring themselves to the piece. I hope that by showing characters with their flaws on display, the audience can measure themselves against the characters on the screen, find empathy and relate to the people and given circumstances presented to them.
This film is inspired by the work of Derek Cianfrance, John Cassavetes and many naturalistic films that employ an alternative style of direction that focuses on creating real scenarios, placing performers in them and letting it play to find truth. I feel that we are often a reflection of the situations and environments that we find ourselves in so this approach has always be one I have a lot of admiration for.
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