Independent Film Producing: The Craft of Low Budget Filmmaking

A great website also helps you cultivate your niche audience.”

However, many times, at this low budget level, you will have a first-time director, so you – as the producer, knowing your budget level – will have to oversee the rewrite and script changes to ensure that it can be done for the budget you have in mind.

Get the screenplay as perfect as you possibly can during the development stage. Of course, there will be changes as you move along, but really work to get it where you want it so that you can be confident that your line producer can sign off on the budget you are committed to having.

However, at the SAG ultra-low budget level, you – the producer – must work closely with the director and writer.

As I mentioned earlier, if I were producing Séance in today’s market, I would begin a serious, well-planned social media campaign using every possible online networking platform to help launch the brand that is my movie. I would make a concerted effort to begin the process of building a dedicated fan base.

I strongly suggest that you do a table read.

At the $200,000 budget, 90 to 95 pages is a great length.

However, where so many producers make their first mistake is right here – and it’s an expensive, painful mistake. There is much more to making the movie than the budget of actually producing the movie. A line producer tells a producer that he or she can shoot this movie for $150,000 and then the producer goes off and raises that exact amount. Bad m

In fact, if you are anticipating self-distributing your film, you may want to have a separate category for that. There will be additional, perhaps substantial costs associated with this category, including creating a film website, planning a festival circuit, carrying out extensive social media campaigns, and doing a possible four-walling of your f