Research- Film production

Phonebooth. I have decided to look at this film as the production of it is very unique. The 120 page script film which would usually take around 40 days to film, was shot in an amazing 10 days! The cast and crew got through 12 pages a day!
Another unusual twist is that even though the film is set in New York City it was actually shot in Los Angeles where an Avenue was transformed to look like New York.
The writer Larry Cohen originally pitched the idea of shooting a film in a phonebooth to Alfred Hitchcock in the 1960s (mentioned previously in my blog). Although Alfred liked the idea they could not come up with a reason for the film to take place in the phonebooth i.e the sniper situation.
Here are some facts about the production:
*They had a 38 man crew
*They had 4 cameras on every shot instead of the usual 1
*They carried out detailed character profiling (even on the many extras)
*It was shot in sequence

The last point is very important in the production of this film. Unlike in most films where they film whatever piece of action is most convenient for example the exterior of a scene may be shot at a totally different time to the interior, Phonebooth was shot in order of the script. This was very important time wise as it helped them to keep continuity. They did not have to worry about if someone was standing in exactly the same place as it is all shot in sequence and it "evolves as you go along". Another interesting feature of the production of this film is that all of the extras had not read the script so did not know what was going to happen next. This meant that the film crew were able to capture pure reactions and benefited the film greatly.