The Filmmaker’s Reset: Why Zero-Based Thinking Might Save Your Next Production

I was chatting recently with a Producer friend who’d just wrapped a micro-budget feature. “You know what killed us?” he asked, “We spent half our budget on crew positions we didn’t actually need because, well, that’s what the call sheets always look like.” That got me thinking about something I’d heard called “zero-based thinking” - this idea of stepping back from how we’ve always done things and asking: if we were starting fresh, what would we actually need? It’s a concept that’s...