Tips for Successful Film Production on a Micro-Budget Feature from Tamid Milan
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If you want to produce a film that will not cost you so much but will not compromise the quality of the movie, there are several tips that a successful and blockbuster producer provides for starting producers, Tamid Milan. He has produced lots of successful films that remained in the heart of many people.
Having a home based location during the production
When you are filming, there are much time that is being lost to loading in and then, wrapping out. when you have to shoot for 5 to 8 pages per day, you will be ruing the time spent by your crew to lug c-stands up a 4-storey walk up. You can write one main location toward the script. Somewhere that you will be able to shoot for free perhaps half of your shoot days. The days of your shooting that you have spent there will be a walk-away. You may consider having a pre-light. If you are fortunate, you will even be able to use this spot during your preparation, as your rehearsal space, production office, or wardrobe, and art staging.
Ensuring that the script is written as micro-budget feature
Having an excellent script is a given, but you need to ensure that you will make an excellent script that would also have a micro-budget feature. You cannot make a good movie from a mediocre script. However, if you have an intention of shooting a micro-budget movie, you will also need a script that works with your budgetary constraints. Meaning, you need to prevent any car chases, and lots of period pieces and VFX. In addition, you should be thinking about where your movie will suit best in the marketplace.
Shooting in an open location
It would always be costly to compensate a diner and request a shut down on the breakfast shift so that you can get your shoot. Shoot while they are open and they may even not charge you a thing. You do not have the same control as you do when you rented out the entire location, and Tamid Milan cleared that this tip does not always work for all scenes. However, you can always consider this in several scenes.
Ensuring that your crew and cast have worked at your budget level before
It is much easier to get your movie to look good than having a movie that sound good, but sound is the tell-tale of a film of low budget. Tamid Milan believes that resources are important, but you should spend some of them on getting a good sound, in the production and the post-production.
Opening it up
It will be a contradiction on the home based location, but even with a home base, you will not be able to have the entire movie taken place at only one place, or it is going to look really micro-budget, feeling stagnant visually. Home base is a great option for Tamid Milan but he also understands that there is a need to get out.
The importance of cast
There are examples of small indie films with talents that do not have name, who came out of nowhere and has catapulted to great success in the industry. These films are exempted. Tamid Milan believes that if you premiere at Cannes, there is no need for you to get actors with name to acquire distribution. However, Cannes premiering is not a great strategy for film distribution, With these tips from Tamid Milan, you will now be able to produce a budget-wise film without compromising the quality.