Hey pal, I'm just spouting off here. I'm no expert at this. I'm interested to know why you think it's a million dollar budget. Convince me with something anything because I welcome it. Like I said I'm an idiot and I'm looking at it through tainted lens. I see companies as cheapskates, when they can cut corners they will. If they even get a whiff costs are increasing or getting out of control they'll yank them reins quick. I counted mabe ten scenes, There's maybe 12 actors and a dog. The house could well belong to a company executive and who knows the kids and one of the woman might even be his family. All the others could be actors from a local college or university. The grandpa probably got the lion's share of pay since he appeared the longest on film. Each scene lasted for anywhere from 3 seconds to maybe 8 seconds with quick chops done in post. Now each scene in reality may have taken from 3 to 4 takes and lasted 30 seconds each but I doubt anymore than that and was previewed on site. Yea I think they wrapped this thing up in three to four hours max. With actors making no more than from eight hundred bucks to a couple of grand depending on their role. Note that there is no dialogue so that cut out a whole set of other crew that would have had to been available. Once it was done and finished and shown to the board or committee or whatever there wasn't any alternate shot or second version that was it according to what was agreed to period. Basically, before shooting even started everything was agreed to and checked off a list by management according to the story line and white board. The money went to dreaming up and working through the story and editing. And that's about it? Now show me where my flaw is, what did I miss and where?
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