How Budget Strangulation in Independent Cinema can Create Orgasmic Returns

Published September 14, 2010 | By Bman

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of ways to source things you may need for a film shoot. From props to wardrobe to specialty vehicles, it can often be easier to find things within your social network than it could be to go out and buy them.

One advantage that Independent productions have is time. Without the typical constraints of more commercial productions, Independent films often have more time to, say, spend on pre-production, the editing process, or to build a groundswell of market support online. Filmmakers, Joel and Ethan Coen, while making Blood Simple, discussed the process of using people who were committed to the process and the film saying:

“We didn’t pay anybody anything. Well, we paid them the minimum. That’s the one thing I always say when people ask about this type of thing: it makes more sense to find people who don’t necessarily have the experience doing what you want to do,

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