A screenplay can look deceptively simple on the page. Two people talk in a kitchen.A detective walks into a warehouse.A car pulls up outside a motel.A character runs through the rain. On paper, those moments may only take a few lines. On set, they can become half a day, a full day, or a tiny […]
A film budget can look intimidating at first glance. Rows of account numbers. Department names. Labor estimates. Equipment rentals. Location fees. Insurance. Post-production. Contingency. Tiny numbers that quietly become large numbers. Large numbers that somehow become even larger numbers after the production meeting. But a film budget is not just a spreadsheet full of costs. […]
A screenplay may begin as imagination, but a film budget is where imagination gets a price tag. That line on page 12 that says, “A crowd fills the street as rain pours down around the burning car,” might read beautifully in a script. On a budget, it becomes background actors, picture vehicles, rain towers, fire […]
