Budgeting

=Budgeting a Television Production= By Anna Haynie

There is an immense amount of detail included in a television budget. By missing just one expense, your budget could be ruined. Production budgeting worksheets can help avoid that kind of consequence. It is divided into sections like:
 * Tv development/ Script
 * Tv production
 * Tv post production
 * Tv marketing and administration
 * Total Tv production budget

Each section has many sub-sections which deal with more specific aspects of the production costs. Cost effectiveness is evaluated three different way: cost per minute, cost per viewer, and cost vs. measured benefits. which are used to justify a productions cost.

Here is a sample budget from a television documentary:

Resources: Kristof Creative- http://www.kristofcreative.com/learn/broadcast-production/tv-production-budget-worksheet/#axzz1XSq3QsSE Cyber College- http://www.cybercollege.com/tvp007.htm Docs and TV- http://docsandtv.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/sample-documentary-budget/ Google - http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CHG2GRbeET8/TBiQS4VvvZI/AAAAAAAAPbc/vQ67I47ZBNs/s1600/Budget-logo_tag_ENG_rgb.jpg&imgrefurl=http://ipfinance.blogspot.com/2010/06/todays-uk-emergency-budget.html&h=604&w=863&sz=48&tbnid=-T70Z2QNJJ1MyM:&tbnh=94&tbnw=135&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dbudget%2Bpictures%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=budget+pictures&docid=qVy9fgeNtXWn2M&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ffVtTvzMKejp0QGT85XMCA&ved=0CFMQ9QEwDA&dur=18316