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For over 22 years, Film & Video Budgets has been the essential handbook for the serious independent filmmaker. Written by two pioneers of do-it-yourself filmmaking, this book outlines every element of production.
How much is this production cost? Learn how to answer this question and much more with this ultimate guide for various productions. This book tells you how to prepare all kinds of budgets and gives actual samples with detailed explanations.
UPDATED AND REVISED for digital video productions (and video-to-film transfers), this definitive budget book contains detailed formats and sample budgets for many different kinds of productions, from “no budget” movies and documentaries to a $5 million feature – along with all the crucial practical information that’s made it an industry bible.
Also includes new and highly useful materials such as a comprehensive master list of line items, which covers just about everything that could possibly be put into a production and chapters on pre-production and setting up a production company. Plus downloadable budgets from www.mwp.com which you can customize. An essential handbook for the serious independent filmmaker.
Included are sample budgets for:
- Indie features
- Documentaries
- Music videos
- Student projects
Plus – new for this 4th Edition – updated and revised budgets for today’s digital production and post and new sections on Tape-to-Film Transfer, High Definition and Development and Marketing.
What people say
“This book is considered to be the industry standard and is the best guide to budgeting that there is.”
Reelscene Magazine
“If you follow the guidelines here, you’ll wield a finely-honed financial weapon rather than a blunt instrument when you meet with bankers, lawyers and completion bond companies. This book lowers your stress level by altering your perception of the budgeting process.”
DGA (Director’s Guild of America) Magazine
Free budgets
Download free budgets from our resources page.