Inside the Secrets of Crafting a Micro-Budget Feature Film with Ashley Scott Meyers: Hollywood’s Best-Kept Formula Revealed
I started going out, looking at bars. There’s a variety of sources. Oh, and one other little thing. So people, again, you can check out the actual budget on our website, lyndaflynnfilm.com. But just for your reference, the total budget’s about $35,000. $5,000 of that $35,000 was devoted to locations. And I’ll break that down a little bit further. If you really have any, if people have questions about it, I can certainly break that down a little further. But this bar, we needed it for six days. And the pitch that I made to the bar owner was that we wouldn’t be there while they were open. So I needed to find a bar that opened at two or three in the afternoon and closed at one or two in the morning. So then we could go in there when they’re closed and shoot our movie. It wouldn’t interrupt because I knew I didn’t have a lot of money to pay this person. So we could go in there and shoot and it wouldn’t cost them any money. And so that was part of my pitch.
