... assemble the team which will work on the film, and the equipment that will be needed. Contracts are negotiated and signed. This way, the balance sheets will be taking shape, expenditures on wages and equipment will be worked out, the amount to be spent on stock can be accurately estimated and peripheral expenses estimated based on the length of the shoot. Contingency plans must always be built into a shoot schedule, there are many unknowns which could affect the length of a shoot, with a contingency period built in, the equipment and people needed to continue working will be available at no extra cost to the original estimate (see appendix 1 for Out and About shooting schedule.) The production manager by this point should be in possession of a contact book containing all the names, addresses and phone numbers of everybody who is working on the production. Also present, will be ...

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