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 sci-fi props on the cheap.

• The Art Dept Checklist: Victoria’s foolproof, 6-step blueprint for indie sets.

• Cheap Trick: Why you need candles (and a fire extinguisher) on set.

Plus, we highlight Featured Filmmaker Tijuana Layne, and how she saved her film The Science of Fear from a post-production disaster!

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Show Links: 

Filmmaker of the Week, Tijuana Layne: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2893587/  

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