With the recession firmly in place, more than ever it's now time to keep an eye on costs. But we still want to move forwards, still want to produce the epic sagas we've always planned. Right?
Well, the equipment for even modest indie film production quickly gets expensive. I'd say that now it's prohibitive unless you have a supplemental income stream. None of that should stop us from starting or completing projects. It does mean that we'll have to think more about how we'll achieve them or even which aims we're going to achieve now.
Now is the best time to look at DIY in moviemaking.
By far the best resource now is Filmmaker IQs 202 DIY Filmmaking Tutorials. What a great collection of links.