Saturday, May 27, 2006
overload
Have you ever worked on a film budget ?It's an interesting thing, really.. You sit in front of an Excel file and try to fit every single one of your expenses in pre-determined categories. So yeah you have to know what your expenses are, you gotta know where to put them in, both can be quite hard.. i mean where do you put your main actor whiskey addiction ? (well that one is easy, it's harder when the addiction is not legal*, lol).
So yeah hours of typing, configurating and all the blah blah.. boring
But also any producer in the world can picture the movie being done in his head while doing it..
It's funny because things get really more REAL in front of an excell file.
Now what hit me this morning as i was working on it was the amount of work left to be done..
Location scouting, smaller parts casting, actually shooting, accomodating all the people, handling the schedule, recording the voiceovers, organizing this and that and then... pre-editing, raising money from more investors, clearing the music, the additionnal shooting, working on a soundtrack (if anyone is interesed...), editing, post-producing (picture equalizing and such), sound mixing, mastering, converting to 35mm or other, pre-marketing, negotiating/signing with theater distributors, video distributors, tv channels, defending the movie.. and then hopefully getting paid.. (and that means more headache about paying the investors back).
so yeah there is a huge amount of work.
and weirdly enough i'm excited...
oh yeah: TOO MUCH BEAUTIFUL WOMEN is the title, lol
aflakete the wunderkid at 11:41 AM