What can you learn from creating a film on TikTok?
This post was written by Jacob Seltzer and Benjy Steinberg.
When we created Mountain Murder Tapes, our scripted TikTok horror film, we wanted to reconnect with our love of scrappy, guerilla filmmaking. At the time, Benjy was writing on a major television show and Jacob had just directed a high-budget short–both huge endeavors with multiple departments, approvals, and stakeholders. Mountain Murder Tapes brought us back to the basics: the story, the actors, and a single camera.
Our story was long, but TikTok prioritizes short content: so we spliced the film into 31 catchy, self-contained TikTok episodes. Making 15-to-90-second TikToks gave us an opportunity to strip our storytelling down. It also helped connect the project with a much larger audience than we could have ever expected–the project has over a million views and counting.
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