Feature Film Budgeting Workshop  - The Full Recording

Feature Film Budgeting — Complete Workshop Recording 

Budgeting a feature film starts with the script, moves through the schedule, and only then becomes a real number you can defend to investors or your production team. Most filmmakers learn this the hard way, guessing at costs, missing elements, and building a budget that falls apart the moment someone asks a hard question.

This 3-part recorded workshop walks through the full arc line producers actually use: tagging a script for every cost-driving element, turning that breakdown into a real shooting schedule, and building that schedule into a complete, defensible budget — above the line, below the line, post-production, and tax credits.

Session 1 — Script Tagging & Scheduling
Learn how to read a script like a line producer and flag every element that costs money — cast, props, stunts, special effects, wardrobe, and visual effects, etc. Then see how that tagged breakdown becomes a real shooting schedule in Movie Magic Scheduling.

Session 2 — Setting Up the Budget & Above-the-Line Costs
Build your top sheet with fringes, globals, and union rates, then budget writer, director, producer, and talent fees the way working line producers actually structure them.

Session 3 — Below-the-Line, Post & Tax Credits
An overview of crew, equipment, and production-day costs, post-production and general expenses, and how tax credits and incentives can shift your financing strategy.

Each 2-hour session ends with questions from participants. 

This is the big-picture workshop — for a full step-by-step deep dive into every phase, check out the Film Budget Masterclass (14 lessons).

$60 — one-time purchase