Don Dunn is one of the formost experts in the field of Feature Film Production, Budgeting ,and Scheduling having created budgets for well over a hundred films with a range from $500,000. To well over $15,000,000.00. Don Dunn services Indie Film makers and Studio/mini majors alike and can create a custom plan of attack for shooting your film and translate that into a detailed budget that can be used to create the motion picture or to raise initial funding for your film. If you have a film that you want to raise money for hire Don to do the preliminary heavy lifting and you will have a viable tool to show your investors that comes with Don's personal seal of approval and is backed by over 40 feature film credits. Don't trust your film to a service that claims to have a team of experts and associates then parts out the work to various lower paid minions of varying experience and expertise. When you deal with dunnfilms you deal directly with Don Dunn, he does the work himself, and that is why it is good and reliable. Upon funding of your film and subject to negotiation, creative interest, and professional availability Don can be hired to Produce, Direct, Line Produce, Production Manage and even Post Supervise your film. Remember your success starts with a solid plan. You can't build anything worthwile without a solid foundation and the confidence you will gain by having and expert like Don on board will pay huge dividens in your conviction when you pitch your project to potential funding sources. Don't be fooled by wannabees, newbees and yes men, who seem to be standing on every corner in Hollywood you need real experience, strength and leadership, you need Dunnfilms.
THE PROCESS
The Details:
This is where years of experience and knowledge begin to lay the foundation for your project. Don will begin the process by reading, then scene numbering the script, he will then make notes and breakdown every scene into it's own breakdown sheet creating custom descriptions for each scene and correcting slug line continuity to make sure that scenes that are listed in one location all have the same description and become homoginized for a proper shooting script. He will then begin listing key elements, like actors, extras, locations, props, set dressing, wardrobe, make up , special fx, pyrotechnics, special equipment, adittional labor, picture cars, stunts, special permit issues, music clearances, day continuity, and anything else that can impact the shooitng of that scene or the budget.
Strategy:
This is the blue print stage where the design of the production begins to take place. This where the experience of shooting dozens of films in multiple genres and a variety of conditions and budget levels comes into play. The key to this phase is having the practical knowledge of what it takes to achieve the successful completion of a film on time and on budget and still maintain qualtiy.
Once the breakdown is completed Don will arrange the stripboard which is made from the breakdown sheets, one strip per scene, into a shooting schedule that will be an optimized plan in order to make sure that both the creative needs and the financial needs of the film are best met and to insure the highest production value for the best price. Once the schedule is done Don will print out the stripboard, shooting schedule and a series of reports in a day out of day format for every element listed in the breakdown.
The money:
Once Don has all the reports created for the custom plan of attack for shooting your film he will manually imput the hundreds of details into an itemized custom budget adding in appropriate rates, either union or non union depending on your criteria and budget level and area standards, add all the apropriate payroll fringes, overtime, costs of insurance, finance fees, Bond company fees if they are required, all appropriate support like transportation, lodging, per diem, as well as a custom international delivery schedule that meets your particular needs. During this process Don will have a series of conversations with you to make sure all of your criteria are met. Once the process is completed Don will send you the preliminary paperwork in PDF form for your review and discussion. After that Don will make any necissary adjustments to make sure you are comtpletely satisfied and then he will forward you the official documents including the top sheet, deatailed budget, stripboard, shooting schedule breakdown,and day out of days reports for actors and key elements.
If you are using this budget and schedule to raise money for your film your investors will be delighted to see the attention to detail that has been put into the preliminary planning stages of your film. They will be able to see that you have hired an exceptional Line Producer with a deep list of credits to spend a great deal of time and effort to get the film ready to shoot and insure that you will succeed in your endevour.
If you are using this budget and schedule to begin production on your film you can rest assured that all the details and planning have been done by a seasoned professional.
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