Make Your Micro-Budget Film Look Expensive: Production Design Secrets
You can rent the most expensive camera in the world, but if you point it at a blank wall, your movie is still going to look like a student film.
In Part 3 of our "7 Deadly Sins of Low-Budget Indie Filmmaking” series, we’re tackling Art Department. We break down why production design is the actual secret to making a micro-budget film look cinematic, and share scrappy, actionable secrets to dressing a set when you have no money.
In this episode, we cover:
"Addition by Subtraction": How to dress a real, lived-in location without it looking cluttered.
The Dollar Store Hack: Building believable…
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