“Unlocking the Secrets of Interactive Storytelling: Gavin Michael Booth Reveals How to Captivate Audiences in Episode 533 of SYS Podcast!”
So that, again, breaking down this little schedule that I did, it’s looking like that’s about six days. So you can do the math on that. We got to do about six pages a day. So that should be very doable. For an indie film, we’ll be moving quickly. But finding a dive bar is not that easy. We can shoot around operating hours. We can go in in the middle of the night and then leave in the afternoon when the bar opens. So we can be trying to have as little of a footprint on this bar as possible.
Obviously this is super low budget, but I have budgeted some money for the locations. The total budget of this is going to be around probably 30,000, which is about what the pinch was. That was a film I did maybe four or five, six years ago, now seven years ago. And that was about the same $30,000 budget. Just again, that’s the primary budget. We can raise more money, maybe we will, but with that $30,000 budget, I have slated about 5,000 of that for locations. Hopefully it’s enough, but we’re going to be shooting, so it’s basically 15 days. So, you can do the math on that, 15 days divided by 5,000. But I think five of the days will be able to shoot at free locations. For instance, this house where I’m recording this podcast will be one of the locations, won’t have to pay for that. And that will save us some money, but I figured there’s about 10 days that we’ll need something. So again, just some napkin math, $5,000, 10 days, that’s $500 a day, which is not a lot. I mean, you can find some locations for that in LA, but it’s tough, $500 a day. So I’ll definitely going to need to cut some deals and find some indie-friendly bar owners. If you know anyone, if you’re listening to this podcast and you know anyone who owns a dive bar, if you work in a dive bar, you know somebody, by all means, just pitch it to them and be great. We can advertise, that’s one of the things I’m going to offer the bar is we can rewrite the script a little bit to sort of feature their bar. So we could advertise them. It could become sort of product placement. We’ll use their logo, their sign, that sort of stuff. So it could be a cool thing for, potentially if we find the right bar, could be a cool thing for them to get a little free publicity. And then hopefully they can make a little bit of money. Again, we can be closed when they’re open so we wouldn’t necessarily impact their ability to earn their normal amount of money. So hopefully I can find that bar that’s willing to cut that deal.
