Inside the Secrets of Crafting a Micro-Budget Feature Film with Ashley Scott Meyers: Hollywood’s Best-Kept Formula Revealed
Let’s just put it like that. You really don’t want to have any white walls. You really want to just pack the walls with stuff. It just looks cooler on film. Most of it won’t be in focus, but it just looks a lot better. But the other locations, the store, the theater, and certainly the garage bar that we were at, the production design was done. I picked those locations because I didn’t have to do a lot of production design. So you got to think it through a little bit. As I mentioned, we were in a coffee shop. We had to make it look like a restaurant. So I knew there was going to be some production design there. That was probably actually, after these two apartment rooms that I designed, that was definitely took some production design. But it was things that I had like plates, glasses, silverware, napkins. You know, I think I bought some bread baskets, some sort of restaurant-looking bread baskets from Amazon, that sort of stuff.
