Inside the Secrets of Crafting a Micro-Budget Feature Film with Ashley Scott Meyers: Hollywood’s Best-Kept Formula Revealed
So that’s the story. It all takes place in a bar. I didn’t know the bar owner when I started this, but I sort of figured I could probably find a bar that I could rent for a week to shoot in and I was able to do that. So again, those are just sort of the intuitive leaps you might have to take. What can you shoot? What can you get? If you got to shoot on a space station, even if it’s just one room on a space station, you still got to build that set and you still got to come up with costumes. So, keeping it contained definitely a good idea, but I would say even more important than keeping contained, keeping it contemporary stuff where the actors can use their own clothes. We can use modern cars. We can go into stores and restaurants and bars in our case. We don’t have to do a lot of set dressing because we’re using a contemporary setting.
