From the course: Video Budgeting
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Calculating production time
- The reason so many video productions run behind schedule is because of unrealistic production time calculation, especially for new producers. If this happens on your project, you could be paying out overtime that will eat into your profits. A realistic production schedule is important when laying out the overall project timeline. Now, arrival and initial setup. Your production clock starts the moment you arrive at the location. There is no free time once you're at the location. The crew clock starts running immediately. How much time will it take you and your crew to unload the necessary equipment and personnel to set up for the first scene? If it's just a small crew with one or two vehicles, I automatically allocate 30 minutes just to get the gear out of the vehicles and into the location. Not to set the gear up. Just get it to where it needs to be. Then I'll allocate about, say, 10 to 15 minutes for orientation. I'll walk the crew through the location space and I'll point out…
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