Indie Tricks-of-the-Trade, or how to get good production values on a modest budget
It takes more skill to make an indie film than a big budget studio picture. Where a Hollywood production can throw money at a problem, an indie production must work smart. I have started this thread as a place where we can share indie tricks-of-the-trade for realizing big budget production values on a modest budget. Or, as Phil Rhodes so eloquently put it in a recent thread “by the application of hard-won and exquisitely-realized skill.” Posts to this thread should not herald DIY lights, nor l
Time to get back to the original purpose of this thread: to share the tricks of the trade that will add more to your film’s production values than all the big budget toys found on bloated Hollywood productions. If you can’t afford a generator, no one tool in your indie bag of tricks will improve the lighting of your film more than a live wire circuit tracer.
One of the biggest hurdles to obtaining good production values in low budget digital cinema productions is the high cost of the blimped
