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However, all those who have their tickets will be emailed a link to the recording as part of their ticket price.
BUDGET
Let's break it down
You have a treatment or script, how do you start to put a budget and schedule together for it?
This course will introduce emerging filmmakers to the mechanics and thoughts behind budgeting and scheduling from a script or concept.
July 19th & 26th and August 2nd | 12.30pm - 2pm
You will be led by an experienced producer, using one of their own short form projects as a case study to give the principles and practices discussed a basis in reality.
It will include practical examples as well as guidance and everyone will get the chance to ask questions throughout.
EXPECT TO COVER:
- Ball parking costs and schedules
- Tips for breaking down a script or directors treatment
- What and how much should be included for each line item
- Difference between ATL and BTL costs
- Negotiating quotes, eg: crew hours and post production
- Balancing creative ambitions with budget constraints
- Contingency/ Dealing with overspends
- How does this vary from genre to genre
- Drawing up a feasible production schedule – how does this affect your budget (and vice versa)
- How to cost out your post production
- How to work out post production schedule and workflow
- Using schedules and planning that will help you find an audience (Festival entry tips,EPKs, social media strategy)
SESSION 1, WEDNESDAY 19th JULY , 1230-2.00pm:
Budget A-Z
Covering off A-Z style budget
Demistifying line items, partial weeks, where to get the info on crew costs, how to create useful estimates and get quotes, and what to do when inevitably you can't have it all.
WEBINAR 2, WEDNESDAY 26th JULY , 1230-2.00pm:
Scheduling and Planning
Covering off schedules and how they work with budgets, locations and availabilities. How to manage all the parallel and competing tensions that arise during planning stages. Which department needs what info? How to plan for success at every stage pre, production and post.
WEBINAR 3, WEDNESDAY 2nd AUGUST , 1230-2.00pm:
Delivery, Cost Reporting and Execution
Covering off post workflow, deliverables, doing a cost report and acquittals, film festival and online strategy, socials and how to harness the capacity and experience you've built with your crew, cast and creatives.
PRICE
Screenworks member - $50 Series (Includes all 3 webinars)
General Admission - $85 Series (Includes all 3 webinars)
RECORDING OF WEBINAR
A recording of the webinar series will be available 24-48hrs after the 3rd webinar is complete. This will be free to access for ticket holders, and available for purchase.
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Speakers
Abi is a Producer at Midwinter Films. She has produced short form series Over and Out, and Skitbox. She was Associate Producer on H is for Happiness, which premiered at MIFF and won Best Film at Cinefest Oz in 2019. H is for Happiness was nominated for 10 AACTA Awards. She co-produced The Butterfly Tree (MIFF and TIFF 2017) and produced feature film Harmony, currently screening on Stan. Abi has worked as a digital producer, making apps and digital platforms, with clients including Junkee Media, BBC and Channel 7.
With over 20 years experience in entertainment, working in technical production, Abi’s career has spanned theatre, events, television commercials, television shows and feature films, working on shows like Planet of the Apes, The Wolverine, Australian Ninja Warrior, I’m a Celebrity Get Me Outta Here, Handa Opera’s Madama Butterfly, La Traviata, West Side Story on Sydney Harbour, and Where the Wild Things Are.
Abi holds a Masters in Screen Arts and Business, a Graduate Diploma in Producing from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, and an honours degree from Victorian College of the Arts in Creative Arts. Abi’s research work has been published in Lumina, The Conversation and Gig Nation. She is a member of staff at University of Technology, Sydney and at Compton School, Australia’s first business school for creatives.
Sponsors and Partners
Sponsor
Screen NSW
Screen NSW is established to assist, promote and strengthen the screen industry in NSW so as to promote Australia’s cultural identity, encourage employment in all aspects of screen production, encourage investment in the industry, enhance the industry’s export potential, encourage innovation and enhance quality in the industry.
Through its funding programs and skilled staff Screen NSW:
- supports the screen production sector to make quality projects that create jobs and grow stable businesses in the State;
- provides advice and information to improve capability in the sector and enable industry practitioners to participate in the global industry;
- funds and promotes new forms of screen content and use of technology;
- collaborates with industry to create opportunities; and
- facilitates all aspects of filming in NSW to make it the most attractive State for screen production.
Tickets
3 x WEBINAR - Screenworks Member
A$45.45
Member Price
Buy TicketYou are a Screenworks Member, this ticket will gain you access to all 3 webinar sessions. $50.00 incl GST
3 x WEBINAR - General Admission
A$77.27
Public Price
Buy TicketYou are not a Screenworks member, this ticket will gain you access to all 3 webinar sessions. $85 incl GST