Film Budgets: – Some Insider Tips For Film Students
This is my 20th year working in the film industry on over 40 film productions. Throughout that time I have never met a new film school graduate who has a clue about handling the most important aspect of ALL filmmaking – the MONEY! I had always assumed (wrongly, it turns out) that film students just weren’t interested in knowing about film budgets. However after a recent survey of film students at a reputable film college we learned that film students DO intuitively understand that knowing the language of film budgeting is crucial to their careers in film. Surprisingly, over 80% were enthusiastic about learning more about film budgeting!
Here’s what we discovered from that survey (completed in late September, 2005):
1.Over 80% of film students are not only interested in learning more about budgeting for film productions, they are emphatic about