Fuck-Up #26
“The Rates Are the Rates”
Why no cost is fixed
“Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts.Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts.Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me…Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”4
—Shel Silverstein
The Fuck-Up…
After you have a sense of how many days you’ll need the various people and equipment necessary to take to make your movie, the next step is finding out what they cost per day, week, or month. You’ll call rental houses, crew members, and colleagues with prior budgeting experience to get prices. And while this is very valuable research, the mistake new filmmakers make is in believing these numbers simply “are what they are.”
How to Do It Right…
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