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Producer to Producer: A Step-By-Step Guide to Low Budgets Independent Film Producing Maureen Ryan
Publisher: Wiese, Michael Productions

It's a step by step guide to help you start thinking like a producer. For Parts Although Parts and Labor are getting involved in larger-budget projects, Van Hoy says “we fully expect to continue making films at $100,000 or however low the films can be made for. Oct 25, 2010 - But still, great films are being made. So – a film that made a 300% RoI made . Since your ROI talks about indie films, I think it needs to reduce the box office return by an additional 50%, taking into account the distributor's cut prior to paying the indie producer. There is no end of online articles and blogs that celebrate the ingenious ways that independent films have learned to stretch their production dollars. Jun 13, 2010 - For example, in years past, if you wanted to create an awesome picture (on a budget), you shot Super 16mm – And later, if the film was picked up, you could easily blow up Super 16mm picture to 35mm. And There is an overwhelming supply of product in the marketplace, a glut of manufacturing – and revisiting economics 101 – your production (AKA, your indie film) can now be produced cheaply. Dec 16, 2012 - The formula for calculating RoI is: to divide the film's box office (in dollars) by the production budget in dollars (“negative cost”), and multiplying the result by 100, and expressing that number as a percentage. Oct 18, 2013 - You can see a $5 million or $10 million budget for a project that should cost $1 million or lower,” observed Daniel Baur, partner and producer at the German film finance and sales outfit K5 Media Group, as part of a revealing article last year in Screen International on the keys to unlocking film finance. In this series of short profiles, Filmmaker asked a number of leading independent producers about their producing models and how they're finding everything from financing to material to office space.