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Directed by – Simon Cade
Produced by – Carl Mason (
Written by – Johann Farhan

Mark – Oliver Heald (
Connor – Deon Lee-Williams (
Pete – Sam Glen (
Dealer – Lewis Brown

Customer 1 – Naithan Ariane (
Customer 2 – Ryan Clayton
Connor’s Mate 1 – Luke Orechoff
Connor’s Mate 2 – Lukas Becker
Connor’s Mate 3 – Paul Keighron
Pete’s Mate – Ross Doran

Director of Photography – JP Caldeano ( )
1st Assistant Director – Wayne Bentley (
Casting Director – Rebecca Jenner
Sound Recordist – Kristian Edwards (
Boom Operator – Danny Feng
Costume Designer – Emily Cooper
Production Assistant – Anton Arenko
Behind the Scenes – David Williamson

Editor – Simon Cade
Asst. Dialogue Editor – Samuel Jacintho

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41 thoughts on “How to Budget for a Short Film | Onlyinvesting.info”
  1. You're absolutely inspirational. Your passion comes easily true your words. Well done mate!!! I've memorised your name… Can't wait to see it in the credits of many big productions very soon. Keep going, the sky is your limit…

  2. I know you want to give money to every people in that short film, but that so much money to use!!!
    there is any other way to make thing work?
    (i have only 500$ and no more income, because i'm student)

  3. Hey I just want to say, you're making awesome videos and I just love your humbleness. Don't lose that! Thanks for sharing your experiences and expertise with all of us!!

  4. Don't you get payed a lot by people Subscribed your channel Simon? You could organize your schoolmates to make that short film together, and that would not need to spend your dollars, and also you would get experienced from there too, why not?

  5. If the distribution companies get all the profit if they pay for the film budget, then it would just be like you spent so much time making a movie for nothing. Does the film budget that was supplied go to the people who helped make it? Why doesn't the studio get any of the money?

  6. The fact that you use the same camera (Canon Rebel t3i) that I am using for my own small indie company relieves a lot of doubt I had about making quality content while not having a more updated camera or the latest model. Loving your channel, cheers mate!

  7. This is a perfect example of how NOT to budget a film. You really should go to film school because you spent $11,000 on a 4 minute short. If you went you would know most people work for free on a production if it will look good on a reel, hence why good camera equipment is important. Any filmmaker that takes 5 days to shoot a 4 minute short is bad at budgeting time and resources.

  8. guys big point about film making for amateurs. don't make action films. it happens a lot with young armature filmmakers who want to make their first "big" film, they get excited and start writing action into their stories and then they find it looks terrible. the reason for this is simpley that you don't have the budget for it to look good. action requires stunts which require choreography which requires a choreographer and maybe even stunt doubles and rehearsals which needs rehearsal spaces and takes up time which cost money. money you don't have so just don't do action.

  9. I enjoyed your film, but 11 grand on a 4 minute film Sorry brother but damn! Unfortunately as others have noted I wished you could of made it a bit longer so it didn’t seem so rushed. Cheers

  10. You did well to hire the policeman, even though you question the expense after the fact. It’s a form of insurance. In certain high risk situations you want that extra insurance.

    When it comes to managing risk, you really don’t want to take shortcuts. Educate yourself about set safety and be prepared to hire professionals (and make sure they are competent professionals). “Getting away with” shortcuts is a recipe for disaster. “Getting away with it just this one time” leads to “we got away with it last time, so let’s do it again”, which leads to “there’s really no risk”. Standard risk management is standard for a reason. Ignoring it will eventually lead to catastrophe.

    In terms of other positions, inexperienced crew can lead to delays and falling behind schedule. Not hiring experienced people might be false economy. You’re not really saving money if your extra days cost more than crew salary. (This can also be an issue with over ambitious scheduling, which is a subject in itself.)

  11. Sir how to cast actors from different locations like another country or township for your web series, indie Feature film or so? I am from Southeast Asia, Burma. In future projects, i would like to cast foreign actors from neighboring countries like Thai, Singapore, japan, Malaysia, Korea or Australia.

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