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The Budget Book for Film and Television, Second Edition

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Written by film, video, and television production manager and producer Robert J. Koster, The Budget Book For Film And Television is a step-by-step walkthrough of how to create and fine-tune film and television budgets. Based upon the widely popular budgeting software packages "Movie Magic" and "EP Budgeting", The Budget Book For Film And Television uses screenshots and explicit instructions, as well as general warnings and discussions of sudden expenses, pitfalls, easy-to-miss items that can make or break a budget, and much more. A superb guide to figuring out costs for a large-scale production in a methodical, accurate manner.

This is a great book written by a UPM with decades of experience. It goes line by line through film/video budgets and teaches you how to accurately budget your own film. It also includes a useful Movie Magic budgeting tutorial. This book is definitely worth it and will spare you a lot of grief!

I bought this book to help me with a school project but all I have to say is: If you want a book that pertains to a specific piece of software which was not represented in the description, then go for it!

Seriously, this does not help you plan a film budget, all this book covers is the list of accounts (it describes the items that would be expensed under these accounts) that a certain piece of software used to help budget a production has, I can't remember the name of the product, but trust me, this book isn't worth it!