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Writing Budgets from Template vs from Scratch

April 7, 2009 by Deb Leave a Comment

You’ll collect budgets you’ve written over time to use as a starting point for writing new budgets – but what happens when you’re starting out and don’t have a drawer full of old budgets? Spend the time and slog it through, or grab someone else’s template? The answer is not clearly black and white. I wrote an article for the MWP Virtual Film School looking at the factors to help you make the decision that’s right for you. Surf by and look it over:

http://shop.mwp.com/blogs/screenwriting-articles/870142-budgets-use-a-template-or-write-from-scratch-by-deborah-s-patz

Not to push you one way or the other, but to keep you informed… on the MWP resource page, Deke Simon provides you with some great sample budgets:

http://shop.mwp.com/pages/film-making-resources

Enjoy,
Deb

Filed Under: Budgets, Forms & Templates, Management Tagged With: MWP

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