Film Lesson #2: Budgeting

If you're very low on cash in order to make a film, that's okay. You can work with what you got, for example.

#1. Forced Perspective: If you have the camera in the right angle and your actor far away enough, you'll get what looks like something unbelievably huge up against someone normal size. You could make a toy dinosaur seem like a regular dinosaur, you could make a sandwich look like it grew to the size of a mattress and you can make a toy car seem like a real car.

#2. Costumes: Make the costumes with clothes you already have or recycle a Halloween costume.

#3. Props: Make the props as recycled crafts.