SCHEDULING & BUDGETING

Catalog description

Movies are make-believe. The work done to make them is not. Long before cameras roll, and continuing when and long after they do, line producers, production managers, locations managers, first assistant directors and others are working hard to prepare for, manage and carry out a process that will utilize the talents of a small army of creative and technical filmmakers and allocate valuable, irreplaceable resources not the least of which are time and money. There is no just "going out and shooting" this. The seeming madness of the creative process that is filmmaking is in reality managed in a process of its own that evolved with the medium. Scheduling is the basis of the entire film production. This course will teach students one of the most important parts of this process - creating a shooting schedule. In doing so, they will learn how to allocate the resources allowed by the budget in a day-to-day schedule that incorporates talent, crew, equipment, locations settings, costumes, props, effects and other elements that are required to shoot on any given day. And they will learn to manage one of the two most valuable resources required to make a film - time. This course will also teach students one of the most important parts of this process - creating a line item budget. In doing so, they will learn all of the various departments, resources and personnel that are required to make a film production possible. And they will learn to allocate one of the two most valuable resources required to make a film - money. This course is valuable for anyone interested in producing, line producing, production managing, set managing, location scouting and managing and producing or directing a movie.