Inside the Secrets of Crafting a Micro-Budget Feature Film with Ashley Scott Meyers: Hollywood’s Best-Kept Formula Revealed
Okay, so the next piece is the food. This is a big, you know, consideration. I think we spent, I don’t know if it was quite 3000. I budgeted about $3,000 for the food. You know, again, it’s micro budget. So that’s a big chunk of the budget, but you don’t want to skimp too much on this. You know, you’re not paying people a lot and you do want to keep your crew somewhat happy. So, I mean, the food was basically, it’s exactly what you would think it was. One of the things that, one of the reasons I rented my mom’s house on Gixxer or Pierce Place was just to get me on set and see what other people’s sets looked like. And so one of the things I looked at when these productions were coming through my mom’s house and I was looking at them, what do they got on the craft services? And in this day and age, it’s pretty much what you would think. You just go down to Costco and buy a bunch of snacks, chips and nuts and water and soda and, you know, raisins and, you know, whatever that kind of stuff that people want, just for some snacks. I mean, we had peanut butter sandwich. Someone needed a sandwich or some white bread, some fruit, bananas, that sort of stuff. But that’s just a function of me just going to the store and buying it.
