Why Our Micro-Budget Script Started With...a Map?

Location, Location, Location.

Talk to anyone about how to make a micro-budget film and you’ll invariably hear the same advice: limit yourself to one location and a couple of actors. It makes sense. Staying in one location simplifies everything. You can shoot quickly and efficiently. Company moves are expensive and complicated.

But for every Tape and Baghead, there’s a lot of films that are just…3 people in a room. Or, as the mumblecore joke goes, 70 minutes of one character asking another character to help him move next weekend.

We’ve all seen these films. It’s a cabin in the woods or a hotel room or an apartment in Park Slope or an apartment in Brooklyn or an apartment in Williamsburg. And maybe there’s a scene at a gas station or whatever to mix it up, but you never get the sense that these character live in a world.