Though these 15 things are aimed at writing a low-budget screenplay that you can sell, they also work for writing a low- or no-budget screenplay to make yourself. THE FIRST 5 STEPS TO A LOW-BUDGET SCREENPLAYĮach one of these steps may require that you retrain your brain to think in terms of budget. I know that these work, because I have a bunch of produced films where I used these steps when writing the scripts. The way that Blumhouse makes thrillers like THE GIFT and horror flicks like INSIDIOUS (cost under $1m, made $99.5 million) are by following most of these 15 Steps To A Low-Budget Screenplay. Though movies like BLAIR WITCH PROJECT and PARANORMAL ACTIVITY are the extreme examples of this, there are plenty of genre films like SEARCHING and those films you see in Red Box that you have never heard of, that were made on a low budget. You want minimum cost and maximum audience. but the film’s box office (or video rentals) will also be low. The problem with a small drama is that there is a limited audience for films like that, which means the film’s budget might be low. But if it’s not spaceship battles and explosions, what *does* make a screenplay expensive to make? How can a small drama be more expensive than a science-fiction film? In my book Write it, Film It on writing a low-budget screenplay either for you to film yourself or to sell to a low-budget genre producer or independent producer, I look at all of the things that *actually* make a film expensive and how you can write a screenplay with maximum production value for minimum cost.
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