Moon

The film 'Moon' directed by commercial directer Duncan Jones is a film written specifically for the actor Sam Rockwell. Duncan Jones is the son of David Bowie. Being the son of a famous musician, it opened up a lot of opportunities for him to start in the film industry. He co-wrote the script with Nathan Parker.
The film Moon only took 33 days to film. This is unusual a most films take months or even years to produce. This shows how tight of a budget that Jones was on making the film. He used 'Below The Line' This means that he just targetted publicising to a specific audience. For example, because the film is about science he went to NASA and did interviews for popular science magazines. However, this does drop his audience by quite a lot because not everyone reads science magazines.

The budget for Moon was 5 million dollars. This is a very small budget for a film considering some films spend 100s of millions just publicising the film. However, Jones took steps to minimise the cast such as using one main actor the whole way through. This actor was Sam Rockwell. CGI was used to create more than one of him because in the film he has clones. They spent most of the CGI money filming one scene where he was playing ping pong against himself.


It was produced in Shappertone Studios which is in London. Filming in a studio yet again saves more money as filminf out side would mean that it would have to be weather permitting. If it rained it would mean there would be hours lots which would cost more money so filming it in a studio meant that they could get everything done when it needed to be done.

Kevin Spacey who was the voice of Gerty, didn't agree to be the voice over until the film had actually been produced. Because he didn't trust that the film would be good, he decided to wait until he agreed to be the voice. The same happened for the person that created the music soundtrack. He didn't agree to do the music until the film had been produced.

The Film won a Bafta but didn't get put in for an Oscar as it would have cost them too much to send out copies of the film to every judge on the panelling board.