Underplayed Gems

Woodshop (2010)

Woodshop poster
Directed by
Peter Coggan
Genre
comedy, drama
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
NR
Rating
3.3 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A filmmaker repurposes his pre-production crew and new camera technology to shoot a feature over a weekend. The script is based on ideas from his high school woodshop class.

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What happens

Woodshop is an independent American film written and directed by Peter Coggan that was released on DVD on September 7, 2010. Produced by Colorado-based 42 Productions, the film originally premiered at the University of Colorado ATLAS Institute in Boulder, Colorado on February 15, 2009. While in pre-production of a project known as Coda, Pete Coggan came across technological and budgetary issues. Coggan wanted to originally film with a 35mm camera, but was advised to buy the then upcoming Red One camera. Calculating the risk in waiting for its release and experimenting with this new camera for his ambitious science fiction project, Coggan decided to temporarily shelve Coda and make use of the pre-production crew, actors and new technology he had set for it. Over the period of one of weekend, Coggan developed a script from ideas he wrote in high school woodshop class. This became Woodshop, 42 Productions' first self-produced feature film and one of the first to be shot in ultra-high definition with the Red One camera technology. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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