Inside the Secrets of Crafting a Micro-Budget Feature Film with Ashley Scott Meyers: Hollywood’s Best-Kept Formula Revealed
So you lose a lot of people. So keep that in mind as you go through these steps. You know, there’s not a high bar. Like you put up this casting notice, all they got to do is just check a button. Yes, submit, submit, submit. So you’re getting all these submissions. A lot of the people don’t really want to do it. I was very, you know, they don’t really want to do a micro budget film. And I think, and you know, once they sort of find out what it is, they sort of drop off.
But I was super clear in all stages of this in my original casting notice. I let people know, this is micro budget. This isn’t going to be glamorous. You know, it’s not going to be fancy food and fancy trailers and, you know, this, this is a gritty micro budget film. We’re going to get in there and do the work. Not going to be the, you know, the sexiest experience you’ve probably ever had in the film industry. Be a little bit down and dirty and just getting things done. Long hours, long days. So I was clear upfront with all of that.
