A screenplay tells a story. A shooting schedule explains how that story will be filmed. A production budget reveals what it will cost. Between those three documents lies one of the most important parts of filmmaking: pre-production. A script may describe a conversation in a crowded restaurant, a car chase through downtown streets, or a […]
For years, film scheduling and budgeting software lived on desktop computers. Producers built budgets, assistant directors organized stripboards, and production managers generated reports using applications installed on their Mac or Windows machines. Projects were saved as files, shared when necessary, and updated by the person responsible for maintaining the schedule or budget. Today, filmmakers have […]
A shooting schedule and a film budget may look like two completely different documents, but they describe the same production from two different directions. The schedule asks: What are we shooting, when are we shooting it, and what will we need? The budget asks: What will that plan cost? That is why film scheduling and […]
Film budgeting used to live in isolated files. A producer might have one version of the budget. A line producer might have another. Someone else might be working from an exported spreadsheet, while a director is looking at an old PDF that no longer reflects the current production plan. That kind of workflow can work […]
