Inside the Secrets of Crafting a Micro-Budget Feature Film with Ashley Scott Meyers: Hollywood’s Best-Kept Formula Revealed
So, once you have a screenplay, and I rewrote it many, many times, you did many, many drafts over the course of several years, I polished this screenplay up and hopefully made it as good as I can possibly make it. But once you have a screenplay that you like, you feel like you can shoot, then it’s a matter of raising the money. Obviously, you have to have some idea about how much things are going to cost so you can at least do a preliminary budget so you know what you’re going to be able to raise. I have enough experience. I don’t really break the script down in like a budget. Like I don’t go through it line by line and really create like an itemized budget. I sort of just have a basic understanding we’re going to need these locations and this. So I created a very preliminary budget and it’s actually online if you want to check it out. If you go to lyndaflynfilm.com and click on ‘About’, I actually have the budget right there linked. You can also download the whole screenplay as well. But again, that’s lyndaflynfilm.com just so you can go there and check out the budget and the full screenplay. But the bottom line is the budget for this film is $35,000 and I personally put in half of that $18,000 is my money.
