Masterclass: Build A Better Film Budget
In Producer Foundry's First workshop, Debbie Brubaker, UPM of Big Eyes and Blue Jasmine provides an overview of scheduling and budgeting a narrative feature. This 4 part video series was shot at a sold out event on Saturday, February 21st in San Francisco. Brubaker, Known as San Francisco's "Godmother of Indie Film", has worked with some of the industries biggest directors including Woody Allen, Tim Burton, and Jennifer Siebel Newsom. In this video package, she provides the wisdom for how to break down a screenplay, prepare a schedule, and fill those numbers in, especially the tricky "fringes", which can make or break a budget.
VIDEOS INCLUDED
Part 1: Script Breakdown
Part 2: Building The Schedule
Part 3: Filling in The Numbers & Intro to Fringes
Part 4: Getting the Fringes Right & Wrap-Up
A Class like this can often cost up to 300 dollars if you take it in person, but as a special introductory offer Producer Foundry is making it available for only 29.95! As an added bonus, when you purchase the video you’ll get three rentals you can share with friends completely free of charge. This offer won’t last forever so act fast.
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Build A Better Film Budget, Part 1/4
In this section, Debbie Brubaker discusses how to take a screenplay and begin to break it down for the purposes of figuring out how much time and money it will take to film it.
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Build A Better Film Budget, Part 2/4
In this section, Debbie Brubaker leads the room through the process of creating a schedule based on the breakdown, as well as working out the "day out of days" a given actor or resource will be needed for the film project.
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Build A Better Film Budget, Part 3/4
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Build A Better Film Budget, Part 4/4