Scheduling and Budgeting Your Film: A Panic-Free Guide
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| Rating | : | 4.38 (756 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0240816641 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Vital production management skills save you money and time-learn basic scheduling for film and video!
"A 'Wilderness' Survival Guide for the beginning and established unit production managers." --Michael J. Hanly, II (Full Sail University)
Plan for movie success by managing your schedule and budget This should be essential reading for any planning to make a film and it's one of the few books I've ever read that focuses on the lifeblood of the project - the money. The material should be applicable to almost any size of project from a few thousands dollars upwards since the principals of organization, budgeting and resource allocation apply the same. It's not just the epic studio pictures that suffer from spiraling budgets and missed deadlines.While I may never make a film, I think th. "Production management from A to Z" according to Jerry Saperstein. A billion million years ago, I made non-theatrical films for sales training, fundraising and similar purposes. They didn't require much in the way of budgeting, my scale was so small I didn't attract the attention of unions and I learned by doing. I edited on a rented Moviola set up in my bedroom. Today the market for film and video is vastly larger, employing tens of thousands of people and demanding a wide variety of skills, one of them being production management. The authors of this t. Christina Paul said FINALLY!. No matter where you are, or what your function is in filmmaking, "Scheduling and Budgeting Your Film: A Pain Free Guide" by Paula Landry is a book that makes going through and understanding the process very accessible. Knowing your costs, what things you will need in any film project is an absolute MUST, no matter if you want to get funding or even have a succesful self-made project on a shoestring. Filmmaking is the most technical of the arts, and it is also the most gruelling from copyr