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Filmmaking Bootcamp: Budget & Schedule Like a Pro
Rating: 3.7 out of 5(60 ratings)
1,394 students

Filmmaking Bootcamp: Budget & Schedule Like a Pro

Learn from Tim Burton's UPM How to Breakdown a Screenplay & Create a Professional Schedule & Budget for Your Filmmaking
Created byIFH Courses, Benjamin O Yennie
Last updated 3/2022
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What you'll learn

  • How to breakdown a screenplay and create a professional film schedule and budget
  • Have a better understanding of the production of a film or series

Course content

1 section • 5 lectures • 2h 27m total length

  • Movie Script Breakdown Part 116:50

    Learn how to break down a screenplay into clearly numbered scenes, identify interiors and exteriors, and convert the script into a practical budget and shooting schedule for narrative features.

  • Movie Script Breakdown Part 221:04

    Break down the screenplay by locations and eighths of a page, using color codes for vehicles, props, and cast to plan a budget and schedule with old-fashioned and software methods.

  • Building The Schedule38:26

    Learn how to build an actionable production schedule and robust budget by breaking scenes into locations, estimating pages per day, and planning contingencies for actors, movement, and set dressing.

  • Filling in The Numbers & Intro to Fringes32:49

    Master day out of days scheduling with movie magic, and estimate budgets with fringes and SAG low-budget rules, including background extras considerations.

  • Getting the Fringes Right & Wrap-Up37:54

    Learn to budget and schedule narrative and documentary films by breaking down scripts into scenes, numbering locations, estimating page counts, and planning for movement and props.

Requirements

  • Basic Understanding of the filmmaking process

Description

Join over 30,000 students learning from our courses!

Film Industry veteran, Debbie Brubaker, UPM of Tim Burton's Big Eyes and Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine provides an overview of scheduling and budgeting a narrative feature. This 4 part video series was shot at a sold-out event on in San Francisco. Brubaker, Known as San Francisco’s “Godmother of Indie Film”, has worked with some of the industries biggest directors including Woody Allen, Tim Burton, and Jennifer Siebel Newsom. In this workshop, she provides the wisdom for how to break down a screenplay, prepare a schedule, and fill those numbers in, especially the tricky “fringes”, which can make or break a budget. Great for movies making and documentary filmmaking.

This is part of the film business they DON'T teach in Film School.

Lessons INCLUDED

  • Part 1: Script Breakdown

  • Part 2: Building The Schedule

  • Part 3: Filling in The Numbers & Intro to Fringes

  • Part 4: Getting the Fringes Right & Wrap-Up

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What people are saying about our courses: 

"By far, the best director and cinematography course on the Internet." - Nate Carroll

"I really enjoyed taking this class. It wasn't just that the subject was interesting to me, but the teacher also made the class intriguing. I would gladly recommend this class to anyone who would be interested." - Leah Ames

Very helpful. Adds depth to your understanding and intuitive insights which you surely had if you happened to play with video shooting and editing without doing any learning beforehand. It's enriching. The movie samples are great as the clarify the points. Love it! - Yosi Tsitsu

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Join over 30,000 students that have already taken IFH Courses filmmaking and screenwriting Education. 

If you've got the dream.

If you've got the drive.

If you've got the passion - but you're missing the knowledge and experience...this course will help you market and sell your feature film, short film, web series, or brand.

Enroll NOW! Let's get started!

Who this course is for:

  • Unit Production Manager
  • Line Producers
  • Filmmakers
  • Directors
  • Producers
  • First Assistant Directors
  • Screenwriters

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