Mondo Cheapo is the super low budget (for 'low', read 'no') film making production 'company' that I started with a friend about 12 years ago, before we had the slightest idea how to use cameras, write stories, or make films...but hey, if we had a name for all our farting about, then it was valid, right? :)
Only in the last year did Mondo Cheapo go from being a pipedream to actually starting to take shape. I'd always wanted to make films, but couldn't ever seem to get mine and my friends collective asses in gear to make anything....and then one windy March day in 2009, we took my fiances faithful old Sony Cybershot DSC-T30 camera to an abandoned airport building, and made what will probably be my legacy, the little known crime drama "F***in' C***".
The camera has no manual settings to speak of. It is a compact digital camera with very basic video function. It doesn't know the meaning of shutter speed or depth of field. Its 640X480, not exactly HD(its barely the D part ;) ).
BUT...
We made something that had a very thin plot, and had 'acting', and had an end (no more pointless "walk around like zombies" experiments), so it was a story, and I edited it, and we laughed at it in a good way(you'll see what I mean when I post it)...But I'd finally made *something*.
.....and now we're making something else, which is very nearly finished. Its no epic, but its a huge leap from "F***in' C***", and its a stepping stone to making bigger and better films, and whether anyone wants to watch them or not, its not going to stop us :).
