Inside the Secrets of Crafting a Micro-Budget Feature Film with Ashley Scott Meyers: Hollywood’s Best-Kept Formula Revealed
Once again, check out our website, LyndaFlynnfilm.com. You can check out the preliminary budget and the screenplay.
So, once you have your screenplay and then you have your financing in place, the next thing that I did was start to secure my locations. Now, this is, you can start to get crew, you can start to get locations, you can start to get cast. You know, there’s no set order. I think actually I probably reached out to Bernie, my cinematographer. He is the fellow who shot the Pinch. So, I already knew him and I’ve been in touch with him. He might’ve been the first person because I contacted him pretty early because I knew that that was an important piece. But the locations were the next piece that I really started working on in earnest in terms of filling this film out. And part of that was because I knew the bar was absolutely, it was essential to doing this movie. I didn’t have a bar, I didn’t have a movie. I had to get a cool bar and I had to have that for this movie. So, I didn’t really want to spend a lot of time on this until I had that bar lined up. And so that’s what I did.