Film Making Courses: Budgeting in Film
by cindiann
Film Making Courses: Budgeting in Film
In this installment of Film Making tips, I want to go over budgeting.
Like it or not, nothing in this world is free. Well, almost nothing. You can breathe the air for free but that’s about it. Point is, it costs money to make a movie.
Now, having said that, we live in some great times. Technology has made it so that we can make movies for under 0. Digital movie cameras today are very cheap and the software, even cheaper. In fact, some of the software you can get for free.
Point is, you don’t want to start making your movie without a budget. You need to sit down and figure out what you need and how much it’s going to cost. See, here is what’s going to happen if you don’t do this. What follows is a very simplified example but I am sure it will get the point across.
Let’s say you want to make your first movie and don’t give any