Feature Film Budgeting: A Step-by-Step Manual is a step-by-step guide to film budgeting in the $600k to $6.5 Million range. Be it the film student, Line Producer, 1st Assistant Director, or script writer, all will benefit from the easy-to-follow steps on how to create a film budget.
This book walks the reader through how to:
- find current and future salary rates for every Hollywood Guild
- determine Prep and Wrap periods for all crew members
- navigate the Guild contracts for easy understanding
- analyze salary rates and how they were arrived at
- simplify the application of fringe rates (tax percentages).
Additionally, sample budgets are presented to reinforce knowledge gained in each chapter through a comprehensive breakdown.
Notably, this manual covers films budgeted in the $600,000 to $6.5 Million range. This allows the reader to focus and excel at those budget levels before moving on to higher budget levels.
- ISBN13 9798765102954
- Publish Date 25 January 2024 (first published 28 December 2023)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USA
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 360
- Language English