4 Lessons Learned on a Micro-Budget Horror Film

Posted on May 4, 2011 in Filmmaking 360, General Screenwriting | No Comments

Micro-budget filmmaking is hard. Now that we established the obvious, here are four lessons from Trevor Munday working as a kibitzer and writer for a micro-budget film.

…Lesson 1: Decide on the structure first, the overall aims and themes and then get writers to work on assigned sections: it’s easier to dovetail these than to have different people rewriting eachother’s sections and including ideas that jar with your own.

The director started casting through his own net of contacts and listings in local advertising directories. The response to this was initially very good and we were able to secure the lead, a trained Polish actress and model quite quickly, although her hardworking schedule that also fitted in a day job was a challenge to work around and largely dictated the shooting sequences.

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