Are you not sure how to budget for costumes, hair, make-up, or production design?
Here’s a workshop to help you understand everything you need to know about budgeting for film design based on your script’s specific needs.
Budgeting for Your Film’s Design Workshop
This workshop walks you through each department, explaining what variables affect your labor and material costs and the numbers behind those costs so you can budget your film correctly.
Is this you?
🎥 Do you feel like you can’t get a straight answer about design costs?
🎥 Do you just throw numbers into your design budgets hoping they will work?
🎥 Do you worry you’ve under budgeted for costumes, hair, makeup and production design?
🎥 Are you confused on where to even begin sorting your budget out?
🎥 Would you like to know some real costs to design?
🎥 Would you like to know how to breakdown your design budget?
🎥 Do you want to know how much money you should raise for your creative vision?
🎥 Or do you simply want to make sure you don’t go over budget?
ME TOO!
Or, at least, I used to feel those things. I used to feel confused about what things cost and how to manage expectations with budgets. I now feel confident talking about what things cost and giving realistic numbers
YOU CAN BUDGET LIKE A PRO TOO!
Budgeting for Your Film’s Design has you covered!
The workshop teaches you all the variables that affect your film’s budget, how to troubleshoot, and ways to think differently about design and your budget. This way you’ll know you budgeted for what you’ll actually need.
TRANSFORM YOUR BUDGETING SKILLS
Your creative vision deserves to be realized. Budgeting appropriately for your design allows it to come to life. Let’s get clear on the numbers and how to calculate them.
You’re probably wondering what makes me qualified to talk about this. Great question!
I’ve been working as a film designer for over a decade
I have a masters in design from a top school
I want to share all this knowledge with you
Looking forward to sharing the numbers with you!
Knowing your creative vision before you create your budget ensures you budget for what you need.
Knowing what thing cost, allows you to prioritize what storytelling elements matter most for your film.
TRANSFORM YOUR BUDGETING SKILLS
Your creative vision deserves to be realized. Budgeting appropriately for your design allows it to come to life. Let’s get clear on the numbers and how to calculate them.
You’re probably wondering what makes me qualified to talk about this. Great question!
I’ve been working as a film designer for over a decade
I have a masters in design from a top school
I want to share all this knowledge with you
Looking forward to sharing the numbers with you!
XO
SARAH
MORE ABOUT SARAH
Sarah Cogan is a designer and visual producer for film and tv who champions filmmakers by skillfully crafting cinematic cohesion by aligning their script to their visuals.
Sarah was eligible for the 2023 Oscar for her design work on 18 1/2 starring John Magaro and Willa Fitzpatrick.
Since achieving her Masters in Fine Arts in Costume and Lighting Design from UC San Diego, Sarah has worked on indie and majors films, episodics, and branded content across all platforms. Some of her credits include designing the costumes for Tapawingo with Jon Heder, Billy Zane, and Gina Gershon and Birthright: Outlaw starring Lucas Black and Sarah Drew, while assisting on shows such as Blindspot Season 5, Kevin Can Wait, and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
Sarah’s accolades include being a part of Emmy nominated costume design team from Apple’s Helpsters, nominated for her production design on indie web series Inferno and her lighting design.
Sarah has turned that cross departmental knowledge into a course to teach filmmakers the psychology of the 5 tenants of design—color, line and form, texture, scale and space and movement — and how to utilize them to enhance their storytelling.
Sarah is a member of USA/IATSE Local 829 and New York Women in Film and Television.
