Inside the Secrets of Crafting a Micro-Budget Feature Film with Ashley Scott Meyers: Hollywood’s Best-Kept Formula Revealed
So there is a piece to that. And thank you, Kurt. And thank you to my other friends that just showed up. You know, my family came out. They are in a quick scene and just Tony, the other producer, in the restaurant scene, him and his wife came out there as extras. And then he brought two of his friends. They’re in the background, you’ll see them in the restaurant scene.
So again, a lot of getting extras for a micro budget film is just begging your friends to show up.
We had two scenes where we needed quite a few extras and one of the scenes at the bar is our climactic scene and it sort of, it requires the extras to interact, you know, to say some stuff. And they’re basically there to watch the protagonist try and get back with his girlfriend and he’s live streaming it. So they’re sort of reacting to what’s going on and oohing and ahhing and cheering and sort of, you know, cheering him on.
