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How to Avoid the Top 5 Budgeting Mistakes from Slated's Colin Brown
You sit down with your script, and after an all night coffee fueled session with your producer/director, you come up with a $15 million budget to make your movie. A month later, when you've raised...
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The Realities of Producing a $1 Million (and Below) Feature Film
Say hello to shrinking budgets & rising expected production values. At Buffalo 8 Productions, we’ve produced over 30 feature films ranging from $100,000 budgets to $8M budgets with the average...
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Keys to Film Financing: Producing Within a Financial Framework
For our final article in the series, we'll discuss the changing realities of staying within a budget and the solutions we've found to be most effective on a variety of budgets. Having a successful...
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Is Your Crowdfunding Budget Too Small? Take Notes from 'The Bill Nye Film' on...
Good, fast, cheap. The saying goes, you can only have two of these qualifiers when making an independent film. Most of us will choose cheap and good. DIY filmmakers embrace the idea that spending...
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7 Directing Tips From A First Time Feature Director
Preparing to make your first feature film is like preparing to have your first kid. You can read the books, take the classes, and learn to breathe, but when it comes time to deliver, you're never...
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12 Indispensible Tips for Budgeting Your Indie Feature
How can you spend your limited budget in the most intelligent way? Writing a feature screenplay takes months of intensive, isolated, creative work. But once it’s ready to produce, you have to switch...
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Every Filmmaking Form You'll Ever Need in 99 Free Templates
Ease your workload (and your mind) with these free templates for everything from storyboarding to contracts to accounting. [Editor's Note: No Film School asked Adrijana Lazarevic to collect these 99...
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Producing a Big Project? Here Are Key Mistakes to Avoid
What do you need to know before you start producing large-scale projects? Producing can be a serious headache with all of the planning and budgeting required to get your project off the ground....
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6 Essential Things You Must Do to Produce a Short Film
How much work does it take to produce and plan for a short film? Indy Mogul will tell you. Recently, Indy Mogul sat down with Moses Israel for a video breaking down the basics of producing. The team...
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The Ultimate Film Budgeting Guide [FREE Film Budget Template]
There are so many elements to consider when calculating your film's production budget. This comprehensive guide and free film budget template will get you started. So, you’re planning to make a film....
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Learn What Blumhouse Gets Right About Horror Filmmaking
If you want to make horror, you might dream of becoming the next Jason Blum. This could get you a step closer! Jason Blum is the powerhouse producer behind Blumhouse Productions, which has been...
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How We Shot a 90-Minute Feature in Less Than 24 Hours AND Got Distribution
Dreaming about shooting a feature? Or want to get more bang for your buck on your next short? Try these tricks! Many filmmakers suffer from what I call Citizen Kane Syndrome: thinking their first...
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How Working on a Hollywood Blockbuster Helped Me Make a Proof of Concept
Here's some impactful advice to get your first project off the ground. I was the eighth person hired onto Warner Bros. Godzilla vs. Kong production, just weeks before shooting my short MANHUNT....
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5 Tips for Rolling with the Punches as a Short Film Producer
Written by Joanna Rudolph Here's how to make the most out of producing your next project. I recently made Summer with Mrs. Von Mausch, a 14-minute short film that I produced, available to watch on...
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Making Movies for a Living—the Business Behind the Dream
Written by Usher Morgan. What are some lessons you wished you had learned before becoming a filmmaker? Making movies for a living is something that a lot of filmmakers aspire to. Having the freedom to...
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Check Out Tons of Tips and Tricks from the Crew Behind 'The Paper Tigers'
Want to learn how to make a movie? This seasoned crew has some advice for you. I love getting filmmaking tips from writers and directors, but let's be honest, there are so many jobs across the...
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How to Budget Your Indie Feature
Learn about seeking representation and budgeting for independent features. Charles and George are joined by filmmaker and writer Kath Tolentino today to chat about lots of topics like AAPI movies,...
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How to Budget for Your Next Film
Making a money plan for your next project doesn’t have to be so terrifying when we have these tips to help you out. Budgeting for a film is a little scary, but it is an essential and creative tool...
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How Hollywood Is Trying to Use Blockchain and NFTs
Hollywood is expanding its revenue streams. Over the last few years, blockchain, crypto, and NFTs have become talking points not just with your finance friends, but across every industry. As...
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We Explain Bitcoin and the Blockchain (with Memes)
Bitcoin, crypto, the blockchain, and Dogecoin are all trends that don't seem to be going anywhere, so what does an indie filmmaker need to understand about the tech that some claim will change the...
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How I Persevered for 17 Years to Get My Movie Released
Don't give up. Don't ever give up. This post was written by Seth Landau. “How can I help you?” was the first thing the late Gary Winick ever said to me. We were introduced by family in the early...
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When Is the Right Time to Take Big Career Swings?
When thinking of making a big career swing, we have all asked ourselves the question, “What’s the right move here?” So... what's the correct answer? In this episode, we talk about… Changes happening...
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The 73 Spreadsheets You'll Need to Finish Your Feature Film
Producing a feature film is like planning a wedding every day for 18 days in a row. This post was written by J. Rick Castañeda. And you’ll really never understand how much work it takes until many...
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How to Estimate a Budget When Reading a Screenplay
How do you figure out how much will your movie cost? Estimating the budget for a film based on a screenplay is a crucial step in the pre-production process. Accurately estimating the budget will help...
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We Craft an Example Line Budget for an Independent Film
Producing an independent film can be an exciting and rewarding endeavor, but it also requires meticulous planning and budgeting. Creating a line budget is a crucial step in the film production...
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A Free Production Management Software? You Gotta Try Saturation
The actual only production management software you need. Tell me if this has happened to you. You have a script for a short or a feature, but you’re trying to figure out how much it’s going to cost....
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