Inside the Secrets of Crafting a Micro-Budget Feature Film with Ashley Scott Meyers: Hollywood’s Best-Kept Formula Revealed
We had the two days with the extras where we went a little, not a little, we went well above that because we had to feed all of those folks. But this process was just as, again, intuitive as you think it was. You just look at restaurants around your location. A lot of them have like family packs or catering menus, and you just find stuff that you think people would like. And the websites are all really sophisticated now. You can just choose what time, you know. So I would do it the day before. I would order the food. I would have a pickup time the next day. And someone from the production would go down and pick up the food at the designated time. We never had any problems. It was pretty much always ready. You know, El Pollo Loco is a good one. There’s a bunch of local restaurants that we use that were good.
