As filmmakers we are always trying to get the best deal we can out of a budgets especially when in the low thousands or in our case hundreds. So this is my advice for the level of films that we are working with. Paying for actors and crew is the ethical and the nice thing to do, but is it the right thing to do? Well I don’t think so, because that is money that the film would lose out on especially in the horror genre when this money would be better spent on special FX. You m