Classes, Seminars & Hands-On Training

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.  

This complete class - including all support materials - is now available on DVD/CD from The GrokShop.

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. This class is available only by request.

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. This class is available only by request.

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.  This class is available only by request.

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. This class is available only by request.

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. This class is available only by request.

Hands-on and How-to, from picking the right program for the job to breaking down the script to the creation of a budget.  Where do the costs come from?  What's the Chart of Accounts?  What are Fringes and Globals and Groups?  This seminar provides extensive details about the major budgeting programs and every line in a budget.  Plus techniques to make smarter budgets for better productions.  Three Hours. This class is available only by request.

The substance of a business plan and how to use it. A step-by-step guide to planning and writing effective business & marketing plans, then coupling them with a Private Placement Memorandum for fund raising. 

This complete class - including all support materials - is now available on DVD/CD from The GrokShop.

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.

You have FIVE MINUTES to present your idea, your needs, your plan.  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.  Two Hours.

This complete class - including all support materials - is now available on DVD/CD from The GrokShop.

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.  This class is available only by request.

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. This class is available only by request.