Inside the Secrets of Crafting a Micro-Budget Feature Film with Ashley Scott Meyers: Hollywood’s Best-Kept Formula Revealed
So I emailed him, and he texted me right back. I pitched him again on what I said before: we were only going to be there when they were closed. I also told him this was a micro-budget film, so it wasn’t going to be a huge crew. It was going to be a four-man crew, anywhere from two to maybe ten actors. We had one day with extras, but the other days were going to be two, three, four, or five actors. So I explained that this wasn’t going to be a big inconvenience for him.
In that original email I sent, I also told him I could pay him $3,000. So I paid him $500 a day for six days, which totaled $3,000. Again, our total location budget was $5,000, so this was more than half of our location budget.
