Inside the Secrets of Crafting a Micro-Budget Feature Film with Ashley Scott Meyers: Hollywood’s Best-Kept Formula Revealed
So we used a Panasonic S1 Lumix. I literally bought this camera for a thousand dollars off Craigslist. It has one little problem with the little screen that folds out. There’s like a missing piece of plastic there. It doesn’t affect the actual camera at all. But it’s good in low light. So that was one of the criteria that Bernie was concerned about. We’re shooting in a bar, and just micro budget, we don’t have tons of lights. So it’s not like we’re going to be able to take this bar with no windows and just light it up exactly how we want. So we knew we needed a camera that was good in low light, and we wanted something small so we could move quickly. We could get into corners and get into places that we couldn’t necessarily get in with a big camera. We didn’t have a big crew. Again, it’s micro budget. So Bernie owns a high-end camera. He has some high-end lenses, and we talked about shooting it on that. But it just it becomes a bigger production with a bigger camera. It takes you two or three people to run the camera. You certainly would need one person running focus and one person running the camera, probably another person, you know, pulling the camera forward and back. So it just it just becomes a much more difficult, bigger process.
