I liked that you said "a Budget is actually a Creative tool". While budgeting, when someone says that I'm good with numbers as if I only followed a formula, I always answer back "I'm not good with numbers, I'm Creative with Numbers" it demands a lot as once the budget is locked there is no going up. Great job. Success!!!

They should do an entire video with the toy-bus budget to really give an example of "You can do anything with anything." They already made the point, but I would love to see the end result of that.

I can't wait for the one on Hollywood Accounting! I need to know how to make my successful films look like losses and my flops look like write-offs.

I used to ALWAYS forget about budgeting food because I was so into the projects that I thought everyone else would forget about eating too. Now I budget food on the early stages of preprod. :)

yeah i hate producing is paper and numbers not what i studied cine for, but this guy seem like a great producer i wish all of them would be like this. thanks for sharing rocketjump this shit keeps the little flame of my passion still alive lol.

kudos to this guy, job id be worst at and most stressed at with video

I've always thought a great way to involve specific things you don't necessarily have the budget for is to create a purposefully ironic or simplistic version of that. For example, in the bus flipping scene you could easily match cut to a young boy flipping his toy truck while making the foley sound with his mouth like kids do and then cut back. Idk, just a thought

This was surprisingly inspiring. Thanks, Ashim!

This video is great! Thank you Rocket Jump and Ashim. Producing has always been a word that both confusing me and scares me but breaking down an important part of a Producer's role in such a logical way has really helped me :)

Subtitles! Please don’t forget to budget subtitles! You want your film to play at a international film festival or at a film festival in another country and most times everyone just remembers subtitles shortly before submission and just take the money that’s left (usually less than a subtitler deserves ..) and ask for a quick and awesome and underpaid work ... Keep in mind: Subtitles open worlds to so many different audiences.

5:07 that is SO true. I liked that part while learning how to make movies. If even one of the puzzles stops cooperating, the movie just won't be "it".

The template of the budget that you guys have given in the forum is amazing. that's what a beginner​ producer needs

Finally someone positive and logical at the same time! everyone is so quick to tell you its not possible, but clearly it is. Great video!! Thank you.

It isn't about your resources, it's about how resourceful you are... I learnt this through becoming a project manager in construction. I am a film buff, very good to hear film projects are similar to construction projects.

Please do a video on "Different sources of getting money for short films".

I think it's best to make stories based off a budget and save bigger stories for when you have that extra. But this gives me a very good understanding of how to balance things and keep things from being too expensive or cutting out too much. Thanks guys 😋

Great advice, Ashim! Budgeting is one of the facets of film I'm most terrible at so I appreciated the help. haha

Not gonna lie. That toy bus flip was pretty legit.

I love the $20 bus flip, it still looked cool and I'd do it for the fun of making the toy look epic.

Great video. I'd love to see one of different individuals' film experience and tips on how one can get a job in the film industry.

Yo that bus flip needs a whole video just about how you did that. That was insane.

Now.... What if I don´t have any money??

My question is this. In general, what percentage of the budget should go towards production and what percentage of the budget should go towards post production? I've seen a few shorts, and they want to only give maybe 5-10% of the budget towards post production. And this is a project with tons of visual effects and endless sound design.

5:32 "You can do what ever you want" ... sounds good! ;-)

Id love to work with this guy someday. Got such a good vibe from this video.

I like your mindset and approach

I'm very lucky to find your channel! Thank you very much for all the information i really apreciate it!

I was curious to know on the bus scene, why not use a toy bus instead of a toy dumptrunk?

Great info. I really enjoyed the last message.

Excellent examples, thank you.

Great video and great run down. Thanks for making this.

True story: I line produced season 1 of a true crime series for ID and made the budget for season 2. The EP knocked down my budget so I decided not to do the second season because my cost projection was correct. The new LP started to run out of money half-way through production and actually told her (my) production manager to tell the crew to eat less to save money! Yeah, the catering line is a good place to hide a little contingency from network bean counters. Feed your crew or you'll never hear the end of it.

Except the $20 bus flip looks more like a dump truck. lol

This was helpful. Thank you for making this!

The most important thing is VISUAL STYLE. Can your budget maintain the style. The expensive bus flip was no more effective than the joke bus flip because the real bus flip didn't sit into the plate shot, the shadow looked animated, (because it was) the eyeline of the actor is way off, and the focus isn't matched between the two composited images. So whilst the STYLE of the film is REAL, the final image was not, flipping not only the bus but the viewer out of the moment. Visual style must be consistent. Your budget will set the style you can afford, regardless of what you would like.

Awesome!

Thank you so much

Speaking of budgets... How is RocketJump funded? A couple KZfaq channels and a few sponsorships can't be enough to pay for all of you guys, especially with some of the larger projects you guys have done, yet there's more and more videos week after week. I think we'd all like to know how to get some extra dough to play with ya know :)

Awesome words Ashim!! Inspiring stuff!

Top advoice very helpful video much repect.

I've been waiting for this one. :)

Okay, I really like you guys's mind setting. I have Question, it has been said that it might cost moreover a million bucks per sec to have decent CGI shot for a quiet while. How would you guys advise to a upcoming film maker who wants to make digital effect heavy piece of work. No 1: "Just go nuts with the computers !" No 2: "Mix with practical effect & use CG where you really need!"? No 3: "Nah ... I'm just interested in making film like "Terms Of Endearment". Get lost dummy !!!".

Well presented!

Forgot to mention; I loved the toy bus! So corny. Could definitely put that funny scene in somewhere.

Can you do a video on funding your projects? Especially if you are a student.

How can we get quotes from directors and cinematographers, actors to start a budget to give to a financier? They always want to know the budget of the film but we need to know there cost to give to a financier so they can give a bidget right?? Or do we just straight up tell the crew the max budget of the whole production???????

Thnk u

Link in the description doesn't work anymore :// Could we have an other Rocket Jump Film School? :D

So this is the difference between *producer* and *director* . as a non english fluent speaker, i didnt really put attention to these two words and always tought that they're just the same

I actually loved the toy truck

Toy Bus is the BEST!

Quick, Cheap, Good. Pick Two

Why didn’t you guys rotto the guy back into the wide angle bus flip shot? The wide angle just shows the bus flipping with the guy that punched it in the shot. Pasting him back into the plate wouldn’t have costed anything extra, it’s an easy edit.

what is your outro song?

Yo that $20 shot was kinda hard tho

WHAT IF... it's soooo fluffy... I could die?!

Got to wonder where you guys get your funding from. I don't feel like KZfaq alone would pay anywhere near enough to fund this kind of stuff

Tangentially related question: will we get the 12th day of VFXmas on this channel??

Do you put the horse in talent fee?? :D

the last time I was this early vghs was still being made!

Don't forget the best boy...

What about a animated movie?

wait, what, the bus wasn't a render?

Am I only the only one who thought the toy bus flip was way cooler

Interesting but being a Producer is all business. If I were in film it would definitely be the one thing I would never want to do. But enjoyed this information.

they are both technically bus flips 😉

For zack snyder it's about how fancy it looks

"Don't forget post production"... well don't forget visual effects that are the real money sink of post...

I was shocked when I knew that screenwriters salaries are less than directors Now experiencing injustice 😢😳

and this is what kills the fun for me. the reality that goes into creating fiction.

They have come a long way from flower warfare

I'm just starting to look at this. I'm hoping to shoot next summer. It's a 2-hour teen sex comedy set here in England. It's dialogue heavy so it looks longer than it is. 158-pages. Which is why I have to do it myself, because no one will rread that size script unless it says "Written by Kevin Smith" on the title page.

If CGI was free then the cost was paycheck for the CGI employees

Budget is $20 damn... Buying food along is $20!!

im working a movie like fast and furious but only got 20 bucks. Buy alot of paper and make paper cars

Were money come from

I would hate this job I would never want to have it

Uhm, the IATSE are demanding the flow of money stays stagnant and is equal for everyone. So Ashim's part about sometimes needing to take money away from one department to give it to another is considered a sin worthy of banishment to them now.

was that bus really have to broken

台本読んだ後予算を想定しながら動画制作するのですね。日本との動画制作のスケールの差がここまで離れているとはね....

You guys really destroyed a school bus?😂

Boop

i disagree. it definitely is about how it looks just as much as the story. exempli gratia, if my story is on point but looks like hot garbage, it won't be as effective in hitting the audience. At least for me that is. A good plot but terrible execution, ruins the story for me. I am more immersed in a story when it looks very professionally done. That is why if i can't afford a realistic bus flip, i'd cut it out of the story all together & rework the story rather than settling for a toy bus. my opinion. some people don't care but i personally do.

rocketjump made a bus jump

What if you have no budget, no voluntaries, and no editing skills?

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Or do Hollywood accounting and every movie makes 0 dollars ;0

BUGITING that is a big word to say to sound smarter

Hmm. I don't have money, can't buy anything, no gear really, and dis ugly 144p phone camera isn't gonna cut it. Well then, off to animation, there goes my dreams of Live action.

I believe that high budget what makes a good movie otherwise don't waste your time watching those sucks short movies

How do hell do you forget budgeting for post production?? Jesus Christ!!! specially when a myriad of projects need to be created literally in post? WTF?!!!

is this guy like 5 foot lol