Film Budget Breakdown Service
If you’re going to make a film — whether it’s a Movie, Documentary, TV Show, or even a Short — you’re going to need money to get it made. Most of our clients are looking for film financing, which means that you’re going to be asked where every dollar is going to go. The only place to find that information is in your film’s detailed budget. Our Detailed Film Budget Service is designed to help creative people like you answer the financial and budgeting questions your investors are going to ask.
What Goes Into A Film Budget?
So what goes into a film’s budget? How long is it? Where do the numbers come from? What factors can make a budget grow or shrink? How long and detailed is it, and how much time goes into making it? (And of course, you might also be wondering if you can make your detailed film budget yourself.)
Those are all questions that we can answer for you in a brief phone consultation, but here are some of those answers in a nutshell.
Detailed Film Budget Questions & Answers
Our Detailed Budget is typically 40-60 pages and includes every line item expense related to your project. That means that we’re going to read your script and make note of every scene, location, actor, extra, prop, effect, lighting, transition, title…and much more.
Our experience of budgeting projects like yours for over 20 years allows us to quite literally “see” the things your script says you’ll need, even if you don’t realize it yet. We can also see where to create efficiencies in the shooting schedule to save you days and weeks of production, and thousands of dollars on your budget. We also know where to find location-based tax incentives that your script makes possible. And all of that goes right into your detailed film budget.
The goal is to create a detailed budget from which you can realistically produce the film as-written, because there are few things more heartbreaking than beginning production on your masterpiece, only to run out of money before it’s complete.