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Producing Micro-budget Film
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Producing Micro-budget Film

How to break down, budget, schedule and run a micro-budget production
Created byNeil Oseman
Last updated 8/2026
English

What you'll learn

  • How to break down your script
  • How to schedule your film
  • How to budget your film
  • How to manage casting, locations, catering, post-production and more

Course content

11 sections • 33 lectures • 3h 15m total length

  • Overview1:11

    Trailer for the course explaining what will be covered

  • Who is this Course for?3:59

    Classifications of budget levels and the kind of production this course is aimed at

  • About your Instructor4:54

    Neil's experience as a producer and elsewhere in the film industry

Requirements

  • No prior producing experience needed, but some experience of being on film sets will be useful

Description

You’ve got a great script, but you don’t have any Hollywood execs on speed dial. But you still want to make that film, with the bit of money you’ve scraped together from savings, friends, family, maybe a crowdfunding campaign. Where do you start?


In this course I’ll take you through all the steps you’ll need to consider to get your film made. I’ll show you how to break down a script, how to turn that into a schedule and a budget – because however little money you have, it always pays to have a budget. I’ll cover how to approach locations, tackle casting, and organise all the dull but vital stuff like catering and transport. Most importantly, I’ll explain how to make sure things run so smoothly and people have such a good time that they’re raring to come back for your next film.


My name’s Neil Oseman. In my 25+ years as a director of photography, I’ve witnessed good producing and bad producing firsthand, and the effects it has on cast and crew morale, productivity and the final quality of the film. This course is built from the lessons I’ve learnt from those productions, and my own producing experience, including the feature film "Soul Searcher", a proof-of-concept shoot starring Benedict Cumberbatch, and two seasons of the multi-award-winning short-form "Ren: The Girl with the Mark".

Who this course is for:

  • Filmmakers looking to produce their first short or feature-length movie on a budget between a few thousand and a few hundred thousand USD

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