General

How they tried to scam my production company

As the economy is opening back up for business, so are the scammers. I had been contacted with a job offer, received a check, and asked to deposit it before any agreement was in place. Here is how the scammers tried to steal money from me.

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General

The Freelancer’s Guide To Landing A Full-Time Job

If you’ve been working freelance most of your career, you may not expect some of the differences between the worlds of full-time and freelance. Here is how to make the transition to a full-time job in the entertainment industry.

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Digital Transformation

Let’s Make Some Physical Things Digital

COVID-19 is affecting every part of our lives and pushing all businesses towards digital transformation. I wanted to explore how we can make some physical things transformed into digital in entertainment production.

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Budgeting

Budgeting For The First Time

Do you want to be a line producer? Are you budgeting for the first time? Here, I shared a few questions to ask when you are estimating the costs of an idea, a creative treatment, or a script.

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Lionsgate Production Safety Guidelines Wizardy Budgets
Covid-19

Lionsgate’s Safety Guidelines

Lionsgate Motion Picture group just released its ‘New Production Safety Guidelines.’  The guideline focuses on 4 main steps: Distance, Sanitation, Enforcement and Change.

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Covid-19

Restarting Film & Video Production (COVID-19)

The entertainment industry has been majorly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and 2.3 Million+ people in the US who used to work are now unemployed. We have a responsibility rethink how to do production safely and restart soon.

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Budgeting

My Resource Management Triangle

Producers’ job is to manage the available resources to accomplish the creative vision. As someone who likes breaking things to its components, today, I would like to break down what I consider as “resources”.

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Budgeting

Simple Script Breakdown For Budget Estimation

Budgeting an idea and getting an accurate estimation of costs, starts with understanding the vision from the ‘budget’ perspective by breaking down the script to its elements. This post I explained a simple version of a script breakdown.

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General

Hello World! I present to you Wizardy!

Welcome to my website. In the following months, while I’m developing software to revolutionize film & video budgeting, I’ll be providing you with tips and tricks for your budgeting your film & video productions.

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