What are examples of budgeting for pre-production?
Pre-production is when you sort of organise your troops for battle, if you will. You are planning out where you’re going to shoot, you’re getting your calendar together, you’re storyboarding the film so you know what each shot is going to look like, or what you want it to look like. You kind of identify your trouble points and say we’re going to have four days, we’re going to have to be shooting on the beach and we’re trying to make a movie that’s set in the summer but we’re shooting it in February, this could be tough, how do we do that? So you’re trying to analyze problems before they come up, because inevitably on any independent film of any size, things are going to come up that you didn’t expect or didn’t plan for. So pre-production is when you are casting the independent film, is when you are getting different actors to sign up and to commit to being in the independent film. It’s when you are working on your production schedule, you’re planning out your locations, securing your l
