Is Boyhood scripted?

Is Boyhood scripted?

Boyhood began filming without a completed script. Linklater had prepared each character’s basic plot points, and the ending—including the final shot—but otherwise wrote the script for the next year’s filming after rewatching the previous year’s footage, incorporating the changes he saw in each actor.

Who is the boy in Boyhood the movie?

Ellar Coltrane, the boy at the center of Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, spent 12 years filming the director’s epic coming-of-age project, with Linklater shooting a little bit each year. When he was first cast in the movie, at age 6, Coltrane admits he didn’t really know what he was getting himself into.

How old is the boy in Boyhood?

At the beginning of the movie, the main character, Mason, is 6 years old. He and his sister, who is a couple of years older, live in a small town in Texas with their mother, who is divorced from their father. Ellar Coltrane (center) with Richard Linklater and Patricia Arquette, who plays his mother in Boyhood.

How was Boyhood shot?

The movie Boyhood, released in 2014 and directed by Richard Linklater, was shot on film using Moviecam Compact Camera, Panavision Panaflex Millennium XL2 Camera and Panavision Primo Primes Spherical Lenses, Zeiss Super Speed Lenses with Lee Daniel, Shane F.