Feature Film Budgeting: A Step-by-Step Manual
Ken Goldberg
Dec 2023 · Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Ebook
360
Pages
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About this ebook
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.
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.
About the author
Ken Goldberg is an Independent Scholar living in the USA, who has worked on creating film budgets for many years. He has 25 years of Film Production experience, moving up from ranks of Production Assistant to Script Supervisor to Line Producer/Production Accountant, on films such as All In (2006) Producer/Director - Nick Vallelonga and Rock N Roll Zombie Apocalypse (2018) Writer/Producer - David A. Lockhart; and Consent: A Hollywood Love Story (2019) Writer/Producer Shelly Pack.
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