Inside the Secrets of Crafting a Micro-Budget Feature Film with Ashley Scott Meyers: Hollywood’s Best-Kept Formula Revealed
Again, this is micro budget. So we didn’t have someone, a prop master that we could pay to sort of handle all this stuff. So the other big thing that I did was the DIT, and that’s transferring your data from the SD card onto a hard drive and making backups. Obviously you want to make sure this is done at a high level and you have someone doing it that is very detail oriented. I’ve done this on all of my films. So I took care of this on this film, and again on a bigger production you’re going to have a dedicated DIT guy that really understands that and makes sure that it’s done right. I mean, this is your film. So if you lose some of your footage, then it’s very, very expensive. You’re going to have to go back and reshoot it.
