'Monsters' is a low budget, independent movie that consisted of a crew/cast of 7 people in total. They wanted to explore how they could make a hollywood movie using modern technology that they could have in their bedrooms and carry around with them on location. It took a lot of hard work and dedication from all of them to fulfil the 'vision' that they had. Allan Niblo and James Richardson of Vertigo Films worked as producers on the production.
- 3D visual effects were done on a very low budget, so the producers were curious to see if the director and crew could pull the idea for the film on with such amateur equipment. They had a limited amount of equipment and a lot of what they filmed was on a small camera that isn't usually used by professionals.
- The film was basically made up as they explored 6 countries. The crew and actors worked with what they had and improvised throughout the whole process. They would find settings that they thought would fit into the film and start filming. By doing this, they ended up with around a hundred hours of footage that the two man editing team had to sift through to edit it into a one and a half hour sequence.
- They cast/crew had a brief idea but no set script or scenes planned for the film. Even the vision of the 'monster' was being drawn up as they filmed, and there were dozens of ideas as to what it should look like and how realistic or close to nature it should look so that the audience can almost familiarise themselves with it.
- The actors had to pretend that there was something there and react to it as realistically as possible which in the making, they said was extremely difficult, however the director never described the creature in too much depth.
- Computer generated imagery (CGI) is not as easy as it looks according to the crew. Director had a vision and the producers trusted this even though there wasn't much pre-production done in relation to scripting etc.
- When signs were needed in the films e.g. 'infected zone' were all done on computer rather than making signs and taking them on location. This saved them money and as the director had the experience to do this effectively, he put his skills to use.
- They couldn't be in the same place for too long so they effectively had to get the scene done in one shot or near enough that without detailed instructions on what to do.
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