Blake Snyder Beat Sheet:
Budget:
There are 8 sections of a Budget which are...
1 Pre Production
2 Production Cast
3 Crew
4 Production Expenses
5 Post-Production
6 Marketing
7 Distribution
8 Miscellaneous
*The budget template has been emailed to each of you.
Bonus Questions/terms/definitions that MAY be on test:
1. What is a Wrangler?
A. A person who is responsible for the care and control of entities used on a set that can't be spoken with. A person who handles someone or something
2. What is Wild Sound?
A. Scenes that are filmed without the sound being recorded at the same time. Dialog and/or sound may be dubbed in later.
3. Who is Johnny Come Lately?
A. A random character who arrives late in the story and saves the day and steals the main characters thunder/spot light.
4. What is a Unit Production Manager?
A. An executive who is responsible to a senior producer for the administration of a particular movie.
5. What is a Stedicam?
A. A camera attached to a camera operator via a mechanical harness which reduces or eliminates the unsteadiness of the operator's motion.
6. What was the first film to win an Oscar?
A. Wings
7. What is a Prop?
A. Anything an actor touches or uses on the set.
8. What is the most expensive movie ever made?
A. Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End
9. What is Overcranking?
A. The process of speeding the frame rate of a camera up, so that when the captured pictures are played at the normal frame rate the action appears to be in slow motion.
10. What is the highest grossing film ever made?
A. Avatar
11. What is MOS?
A. A take that is filmed without recording sound at the same time. MOS stands for "mit out sound"- it is purported that director Erich Von Stroheim couldn't pronounce "without sound" correctly due to his accent.
