3 Budgeting and Scheduling

 

 

A BUDGET IS A LIST of all the equipment you need for your movie, plus a list of all the people you need for your movie and a summary of the money you need to get that equipment and those people. A schedule is simply a timeline spreadsheet of when and where you need the equipment and the people.

Budgeting is the operation where each of the scenes of the script is broken down and analysed followed by a financial assessment of the total cost of each scene. The total financial requirements for the filming become the sum of the budgets of each scene. This budget is used to attract finance and is scrutinised by investors. During production, it is the yardstick whereby the producer, the crew and the investors can gauge ...

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