Includes index.

Schedule and budget basics -- Identifying resources: the breakdown -- Organizing resources: the schedule -- Pricing resources: the budget -- Helpful scheduling and budgeting tips -- Managing resources -- Special considerations -- Additional topics you are bound to encounter.

On time and on budget: the Holy Grail for filmmakers. Budgeting and scheduling are easy in principle but hard in practice. The successful producer has a solid plan for juggling dozens of activities and costs while retaining the flexibility to cope with those inevitable last-minute changes and stay on course. Other resources look at budgeting and scheduling in isolation; this book is unique in covering the two closely intertwined activities in a single volume. Readers get both topics for the price of one book; competitors cover each topic separately. All the fundamentals of line producing are c.