Thanks for the insight everyone. I can give a little more info here. My movie is a character driven piece, so there are no explosions or special fx. It takes place here in Buffalo NY. The locations are going to be easy. Everyone I talked to will be more than happy to let me shoot at their establishments. i.e night clubs, barbershops, I even have a hospital willing to let me use a room for a couple of days, so I won't need to spend money on locations. The film commision here will give me permits for free, unless I want to close off streets, then I have to pay for the policemen. I have a few moving car scenes, a few night club scenes, and the rest pretty much outside on the street or in someone's house. I plan to use as many people I know to be actors, I already have alot of comitments on that. I even will be able to get my friesnds as extras, no problem there, so I won't pay any of them, just feed them I guess. I'm gonna try and raise money seperately for food, so that won't be in my 5,000 budget, and like I said I already have the camera on the computer. I hope I clarified myself a little more, so if anyone has a few more suggestions I appreciate it.