Firstly, I needed to update the budget as I had more information on travel costs etc. I found out that for the majority of the time, our cast would be travelling by car, so I needed to decide how much we were going to pay per mile. I started to look on a few different websites, until I found the official government website advisory.
In previous units, I knew that we had paid in the region of 20-30p per mile, therefore knowing that the government advisory did not exceed 20p, I was happy to go with 25p per mile. I asked all cast for the postcode in order to calculate their quickest route to each location, and I calculated the cost of each cast members travel.
First and foremost with this, I needed to make sure the cast were happy with this payment, 25 per mile for us was the perfect amount because the budget could easily allow for it and as seen above, it exceeds the normal recommendation, so I hope our cast felt valued by this. Each cast member replied and were happy with the costs.
Another part of the budget that I had to update, was the props. To aid me in doing this I created a props sheet (seen in previous post) to help me in knowing exactly what we needed to buy. Most of the props were simple to find on supermarket websites, using this I implemented a cost of how much I wanted us to spend on these items. For example, I saw that there were bunches of flowers for £4 and £2 in Tesco, so allowing £20 to spend on this should have given us enough for the scene.
'Shrine Objects' denoted teddy bears that we would need for the scene, having already looked in the pre-production unit, I knew that teddy bears were on sale for 50p and £2 in Charity Shops, so allowing £5 for this would allow us to get a few for the shrine. Our props was the first thing that came out of our budget, we needed to buy the shrine a while before the shoot, so that we could leave it outside for the flowers to wilter, as in the film the memorial would have been there for over a month, so it couldn't look new.
Furthermore, in terms of food for the shoot, I followed advice from the pre-production unit of budgeting 6 pounds per person per meal. Even though on the day I decided to buy meal deals which cost on average 3 pounds, to allow for any extras and snacks I thought £6 would be an appropriate value.
First and foremost with this, I needed to make sure the cast were happy with this payment, 25 per mile for us was the perfect amount because the budget could easily allow for it and as seen above, it exceeds the normal recommendation, so I hope our cast felt valued by this. Each cast member replied and were happy with the costs.
Another part of the budget that I had to update, was the props. To aid me in doing this I created a props sheet (seen in previous post) to help me in knowing exactly what we needed to buy. Most of the props were simple to find on supermarket websites, using this I implemented a cost of how much I wanted us to spend on these items. For example, I saw that there were bunches of flowers for £4 and £2 in Tesco, so allowing £20 to spend on this should have given us enough for the scene.
'Shrine Objects' denoted teddy bears that we would need for the scene, having already looked in the pre-production unit, I knew that teddy bears were on sale for 50p and £2 in Charity Shops, so allowing £5 for this would allow us to get a few for the shrine. Our props was the first thing that came out of our budget, we needed to buy the shrine a while before the shoot, so that we could leave it outside for the flowers to wilter, as in the film the memorial would have been there for over a month, so it couldn't look new.
Furthermore, in terms of food for the shoot, I followed advice from the pre-production unit of budgeting 6 pounds per person per meal. Even though on the day I decided to buy meal deals which cost on average 3 pounds, to allow for any extras and snacks I thought £6 would be an appropriate value.
On shoot days 1, 3 and 4 I purchased meal deals for everybody, as this was the easiest way to make sure everyone got exactly what they liked and wanted. In order to save some money and take advantage of the fact that we were filming in a house with a working kitchen, I bought food and made lunch for cast and crew on day two.
In order to keep track of how much we were spending, I decided to create a spending tracker. I thought this would be a good idea for two reasons. Firstly, it is a simple way of counting down the budget as we spend, so I know exactly how much we have left after every purchase. Secondly, it would help to keep track of what we were spending over or under a specific category. For example, we spent 1 pounds extra on the flowers than what was budgeted, however we had underspent on the pocket watch by 3 pounds.
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