For over 15 years "Film & Video Budgets" has been the essential handbook for the serious independent filmmaker.
How much does this production cost?
Learn how to answer this question and much more with this ultimate guide for various productions. This book tells you how to prepare all kinds of budgets, and gives actual samples with detailed explanations.
Written by two pioneers of do-it-yourself filmmaking, this book outlines every element of production. Updated and revised for digital video productions (and video-to-film transfers), this definitive budget book contains detailed formats and sample budgets for many different kinds of productions; from "no budget" movies and documentaries to a $5 million feature – along with all the crucial practical information that's made it an industry bible.
Also includes new and highly useful materials such as a comprehensive master list of line items, which covers just about everything that could possibly be put into a production, and chapters on pre-production and setting up a production company.
Plus - new for this 4th Edition - updated and revised budgets for today's digital production and post, and new sections on Tape-to-Film Transfer, High Definition, and Development and Marketing.
You can even download sample customizable budgets from
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