Filmmaking Bootcamp: Budget & Schedule Like a Pro

Join over 30,000 students learning from our courses. Film Industry veteran, Debbie Brubaker, UPM of Tim Burton's Big Eyes and Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine provides an overview of scheduling and budgeting a narrative feature. This 4 part video series was shot at a sold-out event on in San Francisco.

Brubaker, Known as San Francisco's "Godmother of Indie Film", has worked with some of the industries biggest directors including Woody Allen, Tim Burton, and Jennifer Siebel Newsom. In this workshop, she provides the wisdom for how to break down a screenplay, prepare a schedule, and fill those numbers in, especially the tricky "fringes", which can make or break a budget. Great for movies making and documentary filmmaking.

This is part of the film business they DON'T teach in Film School. Lessons INCLUDEDPart 1: Script BreakdownPart 2: Building The SchedulePart 3: Filling in The Numbers & Intro to FringesPart 4: Getting the Fringes Right & Wrap-Up-----------------------------------------------------------------What people are saying about our courses: "By far, the best director and cinematography course on the Internet. " - Nate Carroll"I really enjoyed taking this class.

It wasn't just that the subject was interesting to me, but the teacher also made the class intriguing. I would gladly recommend this class to anyone who would be interested. " - Leah AmesVery helpful.