Keeping pre and post productions a side, the production work; that means the shooting work of the movie costs more. Well, this is not applicable for the films containing more of animation works. For the normal feature films or short films, if the pre and post production works cost 30% , the remaining 70% cost is kept on production works., that means..., SHOOTING.
Over 60% of the films are not getting done within the budget margins. They are exceeding the estimated budget to at least some extent.
Why is this happening?
Not only the short films and documentaries...
This is even happening with big budget feature films which are lead by the most experienced and talented makers.
The only reason behind is..,
LACK OF BUDGET PLANNING
This is the only reason behind this issue.
So, budget planning is very very important for the film making team, especially for the production department to achieve the good result within the planned budget. In order to control the cost, first we have to know the key factors of money wastage.
On what factors the budget is strongly dependent?
Well, the budget of the project is majorly depending upon 3 key factor. They are :
Number of locations
Number of artists
Number of days of shoot
The above mentioned 3 factors are the major causes for the increase or decrease of the film budget.
Shooting is not a work with only few people. The artists, direction and cinematography team and number of other people have to collectively work for a single project. So, whenever a location is confirmed, the entire team consisting of huge number of people have to move to that location. This requires a huge amount of money. And the location costs includes the permission costs, security, equipment etc. So, less number of locations always saves the budget of the film.
Less luggage more comfort... The remuneration paid for the artists is one of the main production cost of the film. An artist can be recruited either in day based payment or the project based payment. But, ultimately, the remuneration gets finalized depending upon the length of the role of the person in the film. If the length of the role of that particular artist in the film is high, he demands more and if it is less, his remuneration will also be less. So, while writing the script itself.., it's better to write the script in such a way that it contains less number of artists. More of junior artists for ambient look, heavy star casting in the film leads to the consumption of more money.
And last but not the least, the number of days of shoot. Increase in the number of working days always increases the budget cost. So, schedules must me completed in time and maximum care should be taken to complete the shooting in the less number of days.
So, every film maker should keep the above 3 factors in mind in order to save the budget and complete the project in the boundary limits.
Over 60% of the films are not getting done within the budget margins. They are exceeding the estimated budget to at least some extent.
Why is this happening?
Not only the short films and documentaries...
This is even happening with big budget feature films which are lead by the most experienced and talented makers.
The only reason behind is..,
LACK OF BUDGET PLANNING
This is the only reason behind this issue.
So, budget planning is very very important for the film making team, especially for the production department to achieve the good result within the planned budget. In order to control the cost, first we have to know the key factors of money wastage.
On what factors the budget is strongly dependent?
Well, the budget of the project is majorly depending upon 3 key factor. They are :
Number of locations
Number of artists
Number of days of shoot
The above mentioned 3 factors are the major causes for the increase or decrease of the film budget.
Shooting is not a work with only few people. The artists, direction and cinematography team and number of other people have to collectively work for a single project. So, whenever a location is confirmed, the entire team consisting of huge number of people have to move to that location. This requires a huge amount of money. And the location costs includes the permission costs, security, equipment etc. So, less number of locations always saves the budget of the film.
Less luggage more comfort... The remuneration paid for the artists is one of the main production cost of the film. An artist can be recruited either in day based payment or the project based payment. But, ultimately, the remuneration gets finalized depending upon the length of the role of the person in the film. If the length of the role of that particular artist in the film is high, he demands more and if it is less, his remuneration will also be less. So, while writing the script itself.., it's better to write the script in such a way that it contains less number of artists. More of junior artists for ambient look, heavy star casting in the film leads to the consumption of more money.
And last but not the least, the number of days of shoot. Increase in the number of working days always increases the budget cost. So, schedules must me completed in time and maximum care should be taken to complete the shooting in the less number of days.
So, every film maker should keep the above 3 factors in mind in order to save the budget and complete the project in the boundary limits.
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