How To Do a Script Breakdown: Creating Accurate Budgets and Shooting Schedules

This video is all about how to breakdown a script. Script breakdowns help Producers and 1st ADs create shooting schedules and accurate budgets for productions. Hopefully these industry secrets can help improve your organization on-set and make your productions run smoothly and efficiently.
MPP SCRIPT BREAKDOWN GUIDE:
ibb.co/Fmt3tzj
TIMECODES:
0:00 - Intro
0:26 - What's a Script Breakdown?
1:16 - A Word To The Wise
1:33 - Marking Eighths
2:30 - Marking Script Elements
5:08 - Outro
FEATURED MEDIA:
Mission Impossible: Fallout (2018)
Inception (2009)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Django: Unchained (2012)
Baby Driver (2017)
Ghost in the Shell (2017)
Sons of Anarchy (2008-2014)
SPECIAL THANKS:
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Alex Green from Pexels
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[@williammchilima8057]

well explained thanks man

[@OverOut]

I cannot believe your channel does not have thousands of subscribers by now! The quality and delivery of your channel's content is phenomenal. Best I have seen anywhere. Hope you guys continue publishing videos. Thank you for sharing - this stuff is amazing and so helpful.

[@Solveiga555]

Same here! I am puzzled as well

[@itzlifepodcast5831]

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[@munishchhabra8196]

excellent presentation in all aspects

[@PhillipRPeck]

Your videos are fantastic. I hope you keep making them

[@mediaproductionpro]

We will definitely keep making them. Just on hiatus for an important job.

[@LikeRandomMemes]

this video is really informativ. such a good video. thanks for that:)

[@mediaproductionpro]

Glad you enjoyed the video. Thank you for the kind comment.

[@LikeRandomMemes]

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[@JacobVossFilms]

Well now I have to know, was the bat Katie ate a baseball bat or the animal.
But seriously, great work again man. You KNOW I'm coming back to this next time I do a script breakdown. You actually explained it better than film school lmao

[@mediaproductionpro]

Thanks, my dude. It never ceased to amaze me how they’d spend 5 weeks on a 5 minute topic. Glad you enjoyed the video, your words really mean a lot.

[@mediaproductionpro]

Also, I’m going to go with a baseball bat, cause I can’t imagine eating a poor little bat.

[@JacobVossFilms]

@@mediaproductionpro yeah true 🥺🥺

[@TheJPinder]

thanks for this!

[@mediaproductionpro]

Of course, glad to have helped out.

[@OprahCoco]

Hi what does the MISC on your thumbnail stand for ??

[@mediaproductionpro]

Although we haven’t been able to post in quite some time, our channel is broken down by different categories relating to media production (so that our audience can just watch what interests them). Misc is the abbreviation for miscellaneous, as producer tasks don’t really fit into any other category.

[@Huntsman7868]

Do you have a preferred software? or any recommendations for free script breakdown tools?

[@mediaproductionpro]

@@Huntsman7868 I do script breakdowns by hand but there’s nothing in theory stopping you from using something like illustrator or photoshop

[@mattjindrak]

Ok, now cover mental breakdowns

[@mediaproductionpro]

😂 I can make another channel for that.