1) Costume - Costume is a big part of our budget, we need our main characters to be wearing very specific clothings to make the script work. In January, I plan to speak to my confirmed cast and confirm if they already own any items of clothing that we need, however in terms of this pre-production package, I have outlined and costed every piece of clothing, this way if the cast do not own any of the pieces of clothing that we need, we have already costed it so it will not effect our production in anyway. Marlo and Nova both attend school, so it was very important that they wear smart clothes that fit a sixth form uniform. We also need another outfit for Marlo that is more casual and comfortable for when he is at home. Mr Shipman is the only outfit we haven't costed, as all he needs to wear is a suit (as he is a teacher), the actor we have for this we know has this already. Julie also we need to wear a more casual outfit, so we have costed jeans, jumper and boots. Our total costume costs come to exactly £170.
2) Travel - Our travel is another big part of our budget. 3/4 of our cast members are going to be coming from London and this is a heavy expense. The price of a return ticket to Maidstone from all central London train stations is roughly the same price. The only difference in prices is if the ticket is purchased and used before or after 9:30, because it is a busier period the tickets are more expensive before 9:30. The schedules that I have created allow me to see which cast members are needed at what time, so that some of the days we can get the cheaper ticket used after 9:30. i have included on the budget how many tickets need to be purchased (For example Marlo we need for all four days, 3 of which before 9:30 so I have costed it as £28.25, and one day later which is costed at £13). I have evidenced this through pictures of the national rail site showing how much each ticket costs. The actor that we have playing Mr Shipman is our one character who lives in Kent, we are only using this character once and he will be driving down, so we have agreed on a £10 contribution to the petrol he will be using. I have also included an extra allowance for each person, I have used an average of £5 per person per day extra, to allow for any overcharged as well as London tube journeys that they may be using to get to the London train stations. Our total travel costs come to £286.50.
3) Props - As I am the writer as well as producer, I knew exactly what props we would need. A lot of our props will be housing decor that we already own, there are 5 main props that are integral to our story that I have costed/found for free to make sure we have them. Firstly, we need an engraved pocket watch, I researched online and found an Etsy seller who we can buy one for at a cost of £20. Moreover, we need a dummy phone as in one of the scenes Marlo slams his phone down and smashes it in frustration, I did some research online on this also and found a website that does this for us, for the cost of £3.36 we can get a dummy iPhone XS. 3 more important props include a bottle of vodka, textbook and letter, there are props we already own or can hand make to save the budget. I have included this on the budget to demonstrate that I have thought about them, because they are integral parts of the plot, but I have put a £0 cost next to them. Our total prop cost £23.36.
4) Food - Food is included in our budget because we have quite long days of filming, we need to make sure that we feed the actors and crew as much as possible. For the cast, I have identified an average meal cost of £6 per person. For me this is quite an overestimate, we are going to have help in creating homemade meals, both sandwiches and hot meals, to bring to locations for the cast and crew. Homemade means we will most likely come in under budget on the food aspect. I have included an extra £60 allowance for food which means we have a total cost of £126 to provide food for all cast and crew over the 4 days. We will go to a supermarket and use the money to buy food to create the meals for a cheaper cost overall.
5) Locations is one of our lowest cost sections of the budget. Mote Park we have to pay £33 for a risk assessment to be done by the council, but all of other costs are coming to us free of charge. This has really benefited us so that we can apply more money to other sections. Mote Road, where will be doing street filming is a public residential street therefore with the permissions from the council it is free. The house we will be using is through family, therefore again this is free. The school, that we are still waiting to be confirmed, is also going to be free as we know someone who works there. In the case that we cannot confirm the school, we will be using UCA Rochester Campus which is again a free location.
6) The last area of the budget we needed to consider was the post production. We have a music composer who will be composing our music for free and copyright free, however I am skeptical to put 0 pounds as a value against our post production costs, I would like be prepared for the need to pay for something, so I am going to be putting £40 as a safe guard for if we need to pay for any music, sound effects etc in post production.
The total left in our budget is £31.14. I am hopeful that in January, we will find that the cast own somme of the clothes that we have budgeted so that this will save us money. I am still aware that in January, we may have the following changes with
-Travel
-Equipment; Laura has noted that some of the scenes may be filmed with an iPhone XS Max instead of a Panasonic camera, which means we have to buy certain rigs etc
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