PRODUCTION VALUE
The European Scheduling & Budgeting Workshop
Why Production Value?
What is Production Value?
The Production Value Tutors
The Production Value Partners
Are you a Junior Assistant-Director?
Are you a Junior Line Producer?
Are you a Producer with a Project to Schedule & Budget?
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Production Value is a workshop that can assist European Producers and Directors to address all issues involved in the budgeting & scheduling of their future projects.
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If you have a film project with a medium-range or high budget, a complex shoot and sophisticated post-production, or just a film with many options still open and questions not answered yet, then Production Value is the place where you can deal with all these aspects in a quiet, honest and highly-professional environment.
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The workshop offers expertise at the highest level, defining — and often solving — the main issues related to the making of your film, during the financing period, or before you are about to greenlight the project.
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Production Value is intended to be a win-win situation for the Juniors and the Producers and Directors : the Juniors get real projects to work on, while the Producers and Directors get free and detailed budgets and schedules.
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Please note however that the workshop only focuses on so-called “below-the-line” costs, i.e. excluding costs related to main cast, director, writer(s), producers’ fees and overheads, those remaining by all means the prerogative of the Producer.
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At the end of the workshop, schedules and budgets (and comments by the Seniors and Juniors) are delivered to the Producers in EPScheduling and EPBudgeting, as well as PDF files.
The main benefits for your project to take part to Production Value are:
- Elaboration of budgets and schedules reflecting the state of the circumstances and facts given
- Neutral expertise and evaluation of your film project by leading European Seniors
- Environment favouring discussions about the ramifications of your creative vision
- Experience of sharing your creative vision with creative 1st AD and line producers (instead of just asking them to execute it)
- Better understanding of co-production implications
- Access to a network of talented assistant-directors and line producers
We welcome film projects from all over Europe, inasmuch as they meet the following criteria:
- An English-speaking version of the script must be available
- The film must include a certain level of complexity, like many locations, different countries, studio shoot, presence of children, on-set special effects and stunts, Visual Special Effects, etc…
- The project is preferably conceived as an international coproduction between 2 or more European countries.
- The estimated budget should be of 2 mio Euro minimum, but higher budgets are most welcome.
- The Producer must set the main framework of the project by filling in a specific questionnaire.
- Before the workshop, Producers must be available online for further questions by the Seniors and Juniors.
- Producers — and if possible Directors — are expected to attend the workshop for 2 days at the end of the workshop — 14 and 15 January for the 2010 Edition.
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We guarantee the confidentiality of the projects brought to the workshop.
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Participation in the workshop is free for the Directors and Producers of the selected projects. We also cover costs related to your travel and accommodation for up to 2 people per project.
→ Applying to Production Value 2011 — Open on August 1, 2010
Production Value 2009 Making-Of
Production Value 2008 Making-Of
Production Value 2007 Making-Of
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