Budget Projections
Since I have written multiple screenplays it would be inpossible for one budget to cover all of them. I have set up this format for budgeting multiple productions on similar low budget scales.
Low Budget | Running Time |
Format | Feet per minute |
ratio | Footage | shooting | Cost Projection |
screen plays: |
Budget A | 120 min. | 16 mm | 40 | 6 | 28,800 | 21 days | $214,004 | SP#5LL SP#6MM SP#7GG |
Budget B | 120 min. | 16 mm | 40 | 6 | 28,800 | 30 days | $266,859 | SP#3SM SP#4SC |
Budget C | 120 min. | 16 mm | 40 | 6 | 28,800 | 28 days | $314,069 | SP#2BK SP#8RE SP#9FW |
Budget D | 120 min. | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | SP#1IK SP#10IN |
NO Budget Script | Running Time |
Format | Feet per minute |
ratio | Footage | shooting | Cost Projection |
screen plays: |
Budget E | 25 min. | Video | 30 | -- | -- |
N/A | $1,000 | Scatter |
If
it's a good script I'll do it. And if it's a bad script,
and they pay me enough, I'll do it. --George Burns |
Quotes: From the masters |
Hollywood
held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money
for work that required no more effort than a game of
pinochle. --Ben Hecht |
Its
idea of "production value" is spending a milion
dollars dressing up a story that any good writer would
throw away. Its vision of the rewarding movie is a
vehicle for some glamour-puss with two expressions and
eighteen changes of costume, or for some male idol of the
muddled millions with a permanent hangover, six worn-out
acting tricks, the build of a lifeguard, and the
mentality of a chicken-strangler. --Raymond Chandler |