Inside the Secrets of Crafting a Micro-Budget Feature Film with Ashley Scott Meyers: Hollywood’s Best-Kept Formula Revealed
So I did not have a large reservoir of people to pull from in my own life. I just don’t know that many young actors anymore. So we had to go out and cast a lot of the roles. I would say more than half, maybe three quarters of the roles, we had to go out and actually cast.
And we used a service called Breakdown Express. They’ve been around for decades. They were here in the nineties when I moved to LA. Obviously it wasn’t all online back then, but from top to bottom, they have a great platform. It’s a little antiquated, a little clunky, but they’ve been doing it for years and they’ve got this website. And again, I’d used this for The Pinch and for The Rideshare Killer. The interface hasn’t changed. The Pinch was over 10 years ago. The interface is exactly the same. But I’m saying that it is a little clunky and a little old, but by the same token, once you figure out how to use it, it’s extremely useful. And they’ve really done it for so long, they know what tools you need. So you can run your entire casting process through Breakdown Express. So it’s a great resource if you’re in LA.
