Starting To Budget

Could this be? A post not about the script but about budgeting? Indeed.

Just a quick thought (as someone who used to make custom excel programs for budgeting long before there were computer solutions).... Independent films need to have their own budgeting format.

The way the studios do it is to include the labor for the departments within the sections of the department. That makes sense when you have 100 people working on something and you are in the department mindset where each person is in charge of their own department essentially.

But Indies don't think this way - they think about the people separately. They're not thinking about the DP in the same category as the camera for example. There are surely other examples that would make things easier to work with as well.

While budgeting this I will try to make my own format, when done I'll post it online for anyone else to follow if they wish.