Detailed three-hour overview of the twin pillars of production - scheduling & budgeting.  This intensive course analyzes the process, technique and complex relationship between a film's schedule & its budget.  

The complete class - including all support materials - is available on CD for $100.  Enter the discount code CD-ORDER on checkout.

The real substance of a business plan and how it gets there. This is a step by step guide to planning and writing an effective business and marketing plan, then coupling it with a legal Private Placement Memorandum for fund raising.  This course will explain the task ahead and show the work that has to be done to get your film funded.  Course includes a complete PDF of the class, business plan Table of Contents and 13MB of support materials. 

You have FIVE MINUTES to present your idea, your needs, your plan.  You've got the BIG meeting.  Here's how to condense your script, your business plan, your marketing plan and your profit goals down to the most important five minutes of your life.  And have enough time left over for small talk.  Yes, you can do it - if you know how.  One Hour.

This is a course for beginners. It covers WHY budgets are essential, WHAT a budget does for filmmakers and how it HELPS your production. The class outlines the structure of a basic budget and shows how to get started. Basic Budgeting is the course to take before starting your first budget. Course includes complete PDF. Classes available by request only.  Two hours

The standard Hollywood studio budgeting program. (Based on Movie Magic, but entirely new.) Learn to work with its basic structure; learn to take control of its most advanced features; learn how to deliver "smarter" budgets. Two hours.

The film industry’s standard budgeting program, from basics to advanced use. Still in wide use by filmmakers and Hollywood studios, v5.7 is the last Movie Magic update. This material was originally developed and delivered at Media Services in New York. Course includes complete PDF manual. Two hours.

Getting the most out of the film industry's most adaptable budgeting program. Change the look and feel instantly, from budgeting commercials to features to TV episodics. All with full implementation of actualization, vendor lists and petty cash tracking. Two hours. Classes available on request only.

If your film is stuck without a production in sight, or your finished film is still sitting without distribution, you need to spend the day in "The Production Masters Class."  This is a major, hands-on, eight-hour seminar filled with key information that can get your script into production and your film sold.

Resumes can help you get work. Or make sure you lose every job. The way resumes are written, even the way they're delivered can make all the difference. Learn what producers look for. And what they hate to find.  One hour. 

Emails - good, bad, ugly, brilliant. Learn which kind you're sending. And how they make you look. Take control of your communications with steps that make you look better, sound smarter and get the results you want. One hour. Classes available on request only.