Budget Planning

When planning our music video project we have realized that our ideas and plans for the video include a lot of travelling, as well different elaborate costumes. Because of this we have decided to budget our video and therefore estimate the outgoing costs that we need to think about before filming.

First of all, are the locations. We have decided on three outdoor locations as well as filming in the college TV studio. We have found out that the TV studio is free to use, and therefore will not cost us anything. Our furthest location is the Industrial locations on Tees Road.

Looking on Google Maps the location is about 8.5 miles away, which is not too bad but will contribute towards the cost of petrol as we have decided to travel by car.

Seaton Carew beach is a local location that is approximately 2 miles away from us. The woodland area we have decided to film in is again local and will not require much travelling – it is about 1.8 miles from us.

In total that is 12.3 miles of travelling we have to do, however we are filming some shots in the locations on different days – for example we are going to the Tees Road location twice. Therefore the overall travel is 20.8 miles. After doing some research this will cost us about #5 on petrol, which we believe is reasonable.

The other thing we need to take into account is how much our equipment, props and costume will cost. The masks we are using in our video we have to make ourselves from materials that we are going to source.

The first ‘leaf’ mask in the video will not cost much to make as the leaves are coming from my back garden. The only cost will be a plain mask and superglue, which comes to about #4. The second ‘clay’ mask we are making is going to cost about #7 for the clay and milliput that we are using.

In terms of costume in the video we are wearing clothes that suit the style of our video however we are not buying them, just sourcing them from our own wardrobes so this is free.

We have also discovered that the camera and tripod and other equipment that we are lending from our college is free to use so again this will not cost us anything.

Therefore the total cost for our music video will be about #16, which we believe is very reasonable and easily manageable.