Is Helix A Green(er) Film Production? Will Be Shot In One Take

Writer/Director Aram Rappaport is shooting a movie in Chicago and he’s doing it in one take. His 100 minute thriller Helix, will be filmed in one continuous shot five different times, once a day over five days. I’m guessing they will pick the best take and release it, though if they were smart they’d include all five takes on an ultra lux special edition DVD.

Film sets have pretty large environmental footprints- they suck up energy running lights, equipment, and trailers, burn through diesel running trucks and generators, and pump pollution into the air with explosions and stunts. Limiting shooting time to five days vastly reduces the environmental impact of your standard movie. Post production consists of a few guys in an editing suite running Final Cut Pro on a desktop Mac and will be particularly light on Helix considering there won’t be any cuts in the movie. They’ll do some color correction, sweeten the sound, and add the titles and credits and export it out ready to rock.

I hope the movie doesn’t suck, I’d like to see more like this.

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