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Appendix Q: Sample Call Sheet
by Andrew Stevens
Producing for Profit
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Prologue
1 What Is a Producer?
Essential Responsibilities
Explaining the Producer’s Role to Laymen
Inexperience and the Three Rs
Employees
The Independent Entrepreneur Producers
Producer Credits: What Do They Mean in Film?
2 Changes to the Independent Marketplace
Historical Context
Monopolies versus Independent Free Trade
Home Entertainment Consolidation
Keeping Abreast of the Changing World
3 The Global Marketplace
The Evolution of the Independent Market
Foreign Sales
Definition of Film Sales
Definition of Term
Foreign Sales Contracts
What is Your Film Worth?
The Fallacy of the Going Rate
Domestic Sales
Art House and Specialty Films
P&A
Television Premieres
Domestic Media and the Internet
4 How to TAP into the Marketplace
Due Diligence for New Trends
Sales Agents
Sales Agent Alternatives
How to Work the AFM
5 The Domestic Market, Festivals, and Market Value
The Realities of the Market
Film Festivals
Listen to the Market
Enhance Perceptual Value
Market and Currency Fluctuations
6 Identifying and Developing a Film Based on Trend and Analysis
Read
Network to Gain Access to Material
Make the System Work for You
Write
Develop
Non-union Independent Films: The Backbone of the Film Industry
Tricks to Write for Cost-effective Production
Screenplay Titles and Perception
7 Now That I Have My Script, What Do I Do?
Pitch to a Studio or Network
Equity Investor
Limited Partnership
Self-finance
Grants
Subsidies
The Great Subsidy Myth
The Hidden Costs
Foreign Pre-sales
Bank Financing
Domestic Pre-sales
Combination Financing
Crowdfunding
Do Whatever it Takes to Make the Deal
8 Investors, Actors, Attorneys, Agents, Managers, Business Managers
Entertainment Attorneys
Agents
Protect Your Investor
Producers and Filmmakers Need to Understand Actors
Actors’ Quotes
Actors’ Language
Casting
Choosing a Representative and the Rates You Pay
Business Managers
Managers
Insecurities and Common Sense
Save Yourself
9 Film Production Basics
Budget
Union versus Non-union
Non-union: Smaller Crews
Payroll Companies
Beware of Making Large Prepayments
Places Never to Cut Corners
Insurance and Murphy’s Law
Production Legal Counsel
10 How to Manage Production Costs
Learn Smaller to Get Bigger
Unions and Guilds
IATSE and Teamsters: Negotiate
Reduce the Number of Locations
Reduce or Eliminate Distant Locations and Save Money
Reduce the Number of Speaking Roles
Reduce Night Exteriors
Reduce Company Moves
Reduce Days or Weeks of Equipment Rental
Reduce the Number of Shooting Days
Rethink Expensive Sequences
Reduce Vehicles, Drivers, Fuels, and Transportation
Lay Low and Publicize Later
Budgeting Software
Creating a Schedule for the Picture
Low-budget Shooting Schedules
Stagger Actors’ Call Times
11 Mounting a Production
Tricks of the Trade
Production Staff and Pre-production
Protect Yourself from Personal Liability
Hire Motivated Multitaskers
Payroll
Production Office
SAG, the Thirty Mile Zone (TMZ), and Locations
Overtime
Local Rules
Buy and Return
Hair and Makeup
Grip and Electric
Shooting with Multiple Cameras
Print and Pickup
Loss and Damage
Vehicles and Transportation
Security
Shooting out of Sequence
Meals
Seek Local Hires
The Editor and the Director
Music and the Composer
Extras
Producers Set the Tone
Real Producers Are Filmmakers
After Wrap
12 Navigating the Actors’ Union
SAG–AFTRA
Residuals
Production Bonds
SAG Unintentionally Accelerated the Digital Revolution
Financial Core
13 Respect for the Dollar
Profit Participations
Residuals Assumption Agreements
Philosophical Differences
Runaway Production
14 The Internet and New Media
Loss of Privacy
Wikipedia
IMDb
Google Maintenance
New Media
Piracy in Music and Film
15 Marketing and Publicity
Studio Campaigns
Key Art in the Independent Film World
Study Current Film Campaigns
Still Photography
Log Lines
Stars
Second Level of Sell
Trailers
MPAA Rating
Title Search
EPK
16 Recap
Appendix A: Major Entertainment Conglomerates and their Holdings as of 2013
Appendix B: IFTA Model Sales Agency Agreement Completed Picture: Basic Form
Appendix C: IFTA Model Sales Agency Agreement Completed Picture: With Advance
Appendix D: Sales Projections and Participation Statement
Appendix E: Sample Collection Agreement
Appendix F: Sample Writer Option Purchase Agreement
Appendix G: Sample Writer Work for Hire Agreement
Appendix H: Sample Writer Step Deal Agreement
Appendix I: Sample Post-production Schedule
Appendix J: Sample Delivery Schedule
Appendix K: Full Non-union Budget
Appendix L: Non-union Top Sheet
Appendix M: Union Comparison Top Sheet
Appendix N: Standard Terms
Appendix O: SAG Studio Zone Map
Appendix P: Sample Shooting Schedule
Appendix Q: Sample Call Sheet
Appendix R: Sample Production Report
Appendix S: Sample Composer Agreement
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