Film Financing Begins with A Great Script
People tend to gloss over the need for a great script in a film package. The assumption seems to be that any script will do. The truth is, a script actors and directors love is a script that will get funding on the very best terms. Actors, and their managers, are always looking for great roles, and they make tactical decisions to charge a little...
Once You Have a Script, You Need a Line Producer
Once you have a script and it is something actors and others love, you need to pay a line producer to break the script down into shooting days and budget items. Why? You need real numbers in order to determine how much your film will cost to make. It is not uncommon at all to change your script to reduce costs. Make sure your line producer...
Identifying Key Cast
One of the most annoying things you will hear as you work to build your film package is that it will takes name talent to get it funded. You will come to hate those words for a variety of reasons. First "name talent" is a fairly meaningless phrase. People use it to mean almost anything and so it means nothing. Some people use the phrase to...
