What does it cost for a location per day?
Locations can cost anything when making an independent film. To shoot Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest on top of the Mount Rushmore, that's expensive, even back in 1950 whatever. But nowadays it's tradeoffs, like if you approach a restaurant and say "let us shoot in your restaurant for free and your restaurant will be in our independent film", that's like advertising for the restaurant. Or different cities have different rules and tax breaks, and it's cheaper sometimes if you shoot an independent film in Louisiana because they want the business that comes with it, then shooting the independent film even here in Hollywood. People know that if you come to their little towns and you shoot a movie, you're not only making the movie there, but you're staying in the hotels, you're eating in the restaurants, you're going to the movie theatres and the ball game or whatever, so you're bringing money to the community. Every location cost is different, and a good producer can get it for cheap, and sometimes you have money to play around to buy a day of shooting somewhere and sometimes you don't, and you have to make do when making your independent film.
