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THE LIVING END BUDGET

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Production Expenses
Lights: Lowel lighting kit (rental)$390
Lenses: prime (rental)$1,200
Props: guns (rental)$150
Food:$1,800
Subtotal::$3,540

Stock
Film stock: 16mm color Kodak 7296, 12,000 ft = 30 rolls @ $106.50 roll minus discount plus tax:$2,654
Cassette tapes: production sound:$50
DAT tapes: post-production sound:$50
1/2" tape: post-production sound:$100
Subtotal:$2,854

Post-Production Expenses
Editing supplies:$50
Dialogue editing, sound effects, recording and editing, music recording and editing, ADR, looping and final sound mix, all done digitally with computer and 3/4" videotape, flat deal:$5,000
Subtotal:$5,050

Services
Edge code: 24,000 ft x .015 cent —discount + tax= $326
Negative cut, flat deal:$1,000
Film to 3/4" videotape transfer, include. Stock, for post-prod sound mix:$350
DAT to mag transfer: used to make optical from:$400
Optical Track:$1,500
Subtotal:$3,576

Titles
Lithography:$150
Processing and printing:$50
Subtotal:$200

Lab
Workprint: ($.25 x 12,000 ft)$3,000
1st Answer print: ($.83 x 3240 ft)$2,689
Check print: ($.18 x 3240 ft) $583
Release print: ($.37 x 3240 plus tax: wet gate made from original A x B roll negative)$1,277
Subtotal:$7,549

Total:$22,769

Notes: this amount of money got The Living End to its premiere screening at the Sundance Film Festival. After the film was acquired by October, more money was spent to improve the picture and sound, as well as to make a 35mm blow-up.

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