Complex sentence: An entire apartment set was built on a sound stage near downtown Los Angeles in four days with crew on a 24-hour rotation, as with a total budget of $3000, the production couldn't afford more prep time.
Split into simpler sentences: An entire apartment set was built on a sound stage near downtown Los Angeles in four days with crew on a 24-hour rotation. With a total budget of $3000, the production couldn't afford more prep time.