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The budget, from the breakdown and the board.

A line for a car reads the days it is on set from the schedule. An actor's fee reads the days they work. Move the board, and the budget moves with it; approve it, and every change after shows against what you approved.

The Long Coast's budget: every head with what was approved and what it is now, ₹13,200 over what was approved after one line changed, and the film at ₹1,31,82,070.
The vehicles head: the 1946 Ford, the police cars, the taxicab, period traffic and streetcars, each at a rate for the call sheets it is on set, and period traffic marked ₹12,000 since approved. The budget's summary: ₹13,200 over what was approved, 31 things on the film with no line yet, every head approved and now, and the film at ₹1,31,82,070.

  1. Lines

    Lines that read the schedule.

    A line is costed at a rate or as a lump sum. A line at a rate counts its days from the board: the call sheets a car is on set, the days an actor works, the days at a location, or every shoot day.

  2. Since approved

    Every change, beside what was approved.

    Period traffic went up after the budget was approved, and its line says by how much. The approved budget is kept as it was, and the working budget goes on beside it.

  3. Over

    Told the day it goes over.

    The producer gets a bell and an email, once, with no figure in either, and the budget says by how much, and what moved it.

  4. Approved · Now · Moved

    Every head, then and now.

    What was approved, what it is now, and what moved it: the schedule's share told apart from what was typed. Only the producer approves.

  5. Nothing forgotten

    What no line costs yet.

    Everything the breakdown has that no line costs is counted and listed, so it can be costed.

  6. The film

    Above the line, below it, and a contingency.

    The contingency is one percentage, its own row under the film.

The film, approved and now.

One line moved after approval, and the film moved with it, its contingency too.

Approved
₹1,31,68,870
Now
₹1,31,82,070
Moved
+₹13,200
  • All eight groups. Development to distribution, with the heads a film uses and any it adds; dragged into the order you want.
  • Fees kept once. A crew member's fee is a package, each call sheet, or each month, set on the budget and read by every line that needs it.
  • Every board can be costed. One budget is the producer's approved one.
  • Sent as the office wants it. As a PDF or an Excel sheet.

Ask Munshi for a first budget.

He proposes the lines from the breakdown and the board, each reading the schedule where it can, and asks you the rates and fees you pay. He never guesses a figure: a line nobody has priced is left not costed, and he says which figures are still wanted. Nothing is added until you accept it.

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