![]() Feel free to take a look at where we put our money, at least on paper, to give you an idea of where you should allocate funds in your own film’s budget. These are just for one of the features we produced. Here’s the topsheets for two different film budgets we made. The goal was to be ready to shoot either film for as low as $40,000, but do our best to raise $200,000 for each, in order to pay for a more experienced, faster crew, better cameras and gear, better locations, and better post production. Both levels of budget are completely peanuts to most mainstream film companies and distributors, but to us, $200k was, and still is, a lot of money. In our case, our low budget version was $40,000, and our high budget was $200,000. Of course, “low” and “high” are two very relative terms. What’s film budget flexibility? It’s exactly what it sounds like: we were ready to make the film at two different budget levels – low, and high. But we couldn’t have pulled either films without one key element: budget flexibility. The road to production on both films was a long one, and a bumpy one. We had no money and no significant investors, despite garnering interest (and even a few Letters of Intent) from a handful of name actors. ![]() A few years ago, my company and I produced two feature films, from script to screen. ![]()
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