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 […]
The assistant director sends out a revised shooting schedule on Monday. By Tuesday morning, the producer has suggested several changes, the production manager has identified a location conflict, and the director wants to move an important scene to another day. Three people now have three slightly different versions of the same schedule. Meanwhile, the line […]
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 […]
