Inside the Secrets of Crafting a Micro-Budget Feature Film with Ashley Scott Meyers: Hollywood’s Best-Kept Formula Revealed
OK, so you have your script, you’ve raised your money, you’ve got your locations, you’ve got your insurance. So the next piece of the puzzle was getting a crew. And this is a micro budget film. So obviously it’s a skeleton crew. We need the bare minimum number of people. And that’s pretty much what we had.
So we had a sound guy. We had a cinematographer and we had sort of a general use production assistant, you know, PA type of a guy that just did everything. But he was very much centered around helping the cinematographer move equipment, set up lights and move cords and that, breaking stuff down, building stuff back up every day. So he was very much sort of an onset PA that was helping with the actual production work.
