Our company name was originally to be Smirk Productions due to it being a hybrid of each member of our groups surname and also we though our production logo would link in nicely with the name being a drawing a vampires mouth smirking with two fangs poking out, unfortunately we then found that this name was already taken by a US indie company which made a film called The Gingerbread Man in 2005.
We then decided purely to change our production name to Smirking Productions as this had not been taken and still seem a catchy relevant name for our company.
Our Budget was around £30, and this covered the cost of the red contact lenses worn by our actor Mark Allan and two sets of Vampire teeth as more a precautionary measure.
We were able to hold of some fake blood free of charge and also of a Marlborough cigarette for our central protagonist to smoke, as well as costume this was again all free of charge.
We did not have to pay for our location or any of our actors, nor the equiptment except for the video tape used to take the footage in the film.
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There have been some examples recently of micro-budget productions achieving success - see if you can reference these (I've discussed this on the britcinema blog). More generally, you need to be researching examples of budgets within your genre to say what is typical, and look for real life distributors that you might use (again linked to genre), tho do stick to your own name, and don't use any existing logos!
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