Inside the Secrets of Crafting a Micro-Budget Feature Film with Ashley Scott Meyers: Hollywood’s Best-Kept Formula Revealed
But the people in LA also looked at some theaters. That was the other big rental location was theaters. And the theaters were extremely difficult to deal with, which is bizarre. Because you would think a bunch of starving actors doing theater in LA would love to have an indie film come and shoot at their theater. But that’s just not the case. They’re just very, very, and same thing with this store in Burbank. As you talk to the people that are sort of more in Hollywood, more in downtown LA, they’re just much more jaded. They’ve done a lot more productions. They’re not, you know, sort of in awe of the mystique of having a film there. So they just want to charge you money and they charge you extra. And they got all these rules and you can’t do this. If you want to do this, you get paid extra. You got to pay extra. If you want to shoot in this bathroom, you got to pay. You go up these stairs, you got to pay extra. So it was just a very, it just wasn’t a great experience.
