5SCHEDULING

In the first edition of this book, this chapter was strictly about scheduling your movie—how to break down your script and arrive at an accurate shooting schedule. All of that information on film scheduling remains, but because we have received a number of questions about scheduling as it relates to the filmmaking process as a whole, we decided that some of those questions should be addressed here.

If you are planning on creating an LLC or LLP for the making of your film, you want to allow enough time before official pre-production to get paperwork in place. Therefore, if pre-production is set to begin July 15, you may want to file the papers for your LLC by June 1. You will then wait to receive a Federal Identification number, within ...

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