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IATSE-NY Negotiated Low Budget ($3M) Feature Agreement (DOC) $5.00    Add to cart
IATSE Single-Production Low-Budget Feature Signatory Agreement $5.00    Add to cart
Still Photo Shoot Bid Form $5.00    Add to cart

Contract

Loan Out Agreement for Services of an Executive Producer $5.00    Add to cart
Non-Disclosure Agreement (Word) $5.00    Add to cart
Legally Obtaining Rights to Music for your Film Preview $50.00 $20.00    Add to cart

Business Plan

Comprehensive Indie Business Plan Preview $75.00    Add to cart
Cinevid BusinessPlan.pdf $10.00    Add to cart
PPM / Business Plan Overview & Template (PDF) $15.00    Add to cart

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Business Plans - Legal & Effective New

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Price: $125.00  $110.00 OR $93.50 as a Member

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.  

The complete class on CD/DVD includes all support materials, exactly like the live class.

Course includes a complete PDF of the class, business plan Table of Contents and 35MB of support materials.

Creating the PlanROI

  • What IS a Business Plan 
  • The Key to an Executive Summary
  • The Single Worst Mistake
  • Business Plan vs. Financial Offering
  • ROI: The Investors’ Goal
  • Defining “Profit” in a Non-Profit World
  • Seven Dangers That Sink Plans
  • Eight Steps to the Structure of a Plan
  • Identifying Your Company

Defining your Film

  • Types of Films
  • One Hundred & Thirty Film Genres & Counting
  • Describing the Picture
  • Describing the Production
  • Twenty Key Sources for Box Office Comparables
  • Acknowledge our Business

Finding the funding

  • A Dozen Income Sources
  • Four Funding Organization for Non-Profits
  • Marketing Introduction
  • Two Legal Approaches to Fund Raising
  • Importance of Full Disclosure
  • SEC Rulings and Regulation D
  • Illegal Advertising
  • How to Use the Internet Legally
  • Structuring the Investment Vehicle
  • Twenty Essential Details for your Offering
  • Methods of Film Distribution
  • Steps for Distributing Income
  • Traditional Distribution Outlets
  • New Outlets for New Media
  • Preparing a Production & Distribution Schedule
  • Financial Projections and Income Sources
  • The Film Budget

Backup & Support Resources

  • Complete Table of Contents
  • Standard Business Plan Outline
  • Exhibits and Support Information
  • Complete course PDF

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A to Z Guide to Film Terms
A to Z Guide to Film Terms

An incredible back-pocket resource that provides an absolute, total and invaluable guide to every term, device, description and tool on a film set.

If you're new to movie making or plan to make movies someday, this is the book you've been needing. 

With this book to guide you, that 200 pound bully will never kick sandbags in your face again....

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Business Plans - Legal & Effective
Business Plans - Legal & Effective

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.  

The complete class on CD/DVD includes all support materials, exactly like the live class.

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Film & Video Budgets
Film & Video Budgets

All new fifth edition of the filmmaker's budgeting bible.  Every film term and every budget line item. Filled with budget samples for indie features, docs, music videos, student projects and no-buck productions. Complete with current rates. Great, DETAILED information on shooting (and completing) in HD, transferring from tape to film and even marketing films.

NOT a book for seasoned pros, but perfect for everyone who’s getting started or who still has questions about making budgets.

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Gorilla v5.0
Gorilla v5.0

Gorilla v5 provides professional Film Scheduling & Budgeting software

Designed for filmmakers of all levels, Gorilla 5 combines traditional film scheduling & budgeting in one tightly integrated software package. Every facet of production – breakdown sheets, stripboards, budgets, calendar, cast & crew, call sheets, locations, props, shot lists, storyboards and expenses - can be handled with professional ease and precision. Gorilla modules “talk to each other” so you’ll never have to type the same thing twice.

Gorilla v5 is packed with  time and money-saving features that give you power over every detail.

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How to Pitch & Win
How to Pitch & Win

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.

The complete class on CD/DVD includes all support materials, exactly like the live class.

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Scheduling & Budgeting
Scheduling & Budgeting

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 on CD/DVD includes all support materials, exactly like the live class.

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Showbiz Budgeting & Actualization v8
Showbiz Budgeting & Actualization v8

Both Mac & Windows for any size or style of project: from commercials, music video, feature film, television, corporate video, to post production, still photography and more, Showbiz Budgeting handles the toughest budgeting problems.

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Showbiz Labor Guide
Showbiz Labor Guide

When you’re preparing your budget, the last thing you want to do is call 20 different local union offices looking for rates. Now you don’t have to: just point and click on any Union or Guild to quickly find the hourly, daily, weekly or flat rate for almost anyone in the industry, along with guarantees and Overtime provisions. Using our proprietary, searchable database will not only speed up the budgeting process, it will make your budget more accurate than ever.

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Showbiz Labor Guide (PDF)
Showbiz Labor Guide (PDF)

When you’re preparing your budget, the last thing you want to do is call 20 different local union offices looking for rates. Now you don’t have to: just point and click on any Union or Guild to quickly find the hourly, daily, weekly or flat rate for almost anyone in the industry, along with guarantees and Overtime provisions. Using our proprietary, searchable database will not only speed up the budgeting process, it will make your budget more accurate than ever.

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SnarkyKu
SnarkyKu

Haiku & senryu from the sharp wit and nasty pen of Michelle Shy. Or would that be the nasty wit and sharp pen...?

No matter at all. It's an absolutely amazing collection of the cranky & the grouchy, the snotty & the mean. If you ever wanted to tell someone to go to hell in the nicest possible way, this is your book!

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