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Feature Film Budgeting
A Step-by-Step Manual
by Ken Goldberg
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Feature Film Budgeting: A Step-by-Step Manual is a step-by-step guide to film budgeting in the $600k to $6.5 Million range. Be it the film student, Line Producer, 1st Assistant Director, or script writer, all will benefit from the easy-to-follow steps on how to create a film budget.
This book walks the reader through how to:
- find current and future salary rates for every Hollywood Guild
- determine Prep and Wrap periods for all crew members
- navigate the Guild contracts for easy understanding
- analyze salary rates and how they were arrived at
- simplify the application of fringe rates (tax percentages).
Additionally, sample budgets are presented to reinforce knowledge gained in each chapter through a comprehensive breakdown.
Notably, this manual covers films budgeted in the $600,000 to $6.5 Million range. This allows the reader to focus and excel at those budget levels before moving on to higher budget levels.
About the Author:
Ken Goldberg is an Independent Scholar living in the USA, who has worked on creating film budgets for many years. He has 25 years of Film Production experience, moving up from ranks of Production Assistant to Script Supervisor to Line Producer/Production Accountant, on films such as All In (2006) Producer/Director - Nick Vallelonga and Rock N Roll Zombie Apocalypse (2018) Writer/Producer - David A. Lockhart; and Consent: A Hollywood Love Story (2019) Writer/Producer Shelly Pack.
Press Reviews:
"A super-detailed resource for anyone who wants an in-depth explanation of film budgeting line items." ―Kim Adelman, Instructor, Low Budget Filmmaking, UCLA Extension, USA
"Feature Film Budgeting; A Step-by-Step Manual is your meticulously detailed roadmap to creating a movie budget. Author Ken Goldberg throws open the curtains for beginners on an often-overwhelming task of movie budgeting, taking you through each line item, one at a time. With precise instruction, color-coding and sample budgets as examples of how the process works, readers with movie budgeting software will understand terminology, how to source pay rates, start and finish a complete movie budget." ―Paula Landry, Filmmaker/Author/Entrepreneur, Media Management School for Business, Metropolitan College of New York, USA
See the publisher website: Bloomsbury Academic
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