What Producers Actually Do

This collection of recorded workshops gives up-and-coming producers a solid fundamental understanding of their role, rights, responsibilities, and risks when they undertake to produce a feature film.

You learn about the different stages involved in bringing a film to market, what each stage involves, when operations are usually undertaken, how producers manage both risks and costs.

Whether you are producing a $5K fast-shoot short film, a $50K micro-budget feature film, or a $5M movie featuring name talent, taking on the role of producer comes with a set of risks, rewards, and obligations. If you don't know what they are, this is the workshop for you.

Just click I Want This, provide the requested information, then check your email for a link that gives you instant access to the videos.

Topics addressed in this workshop:

• Producers, Executive Producers, Line Producers, Associate Producers, and Co-Producers: As the cost of a production goes up, a producer ends up hiring other producers to help them. You'll learn what different types of producers do, and when it makes sense to bring a new producer on board.
• Development: What it is and why it's critical to ensuring your film isn't a dangerous waste of time and money for you as a producer. How the right development processes unlocks funding from banks, investors, state/national rebate programs swiftly. How to work with film analytics companies and other industry pros to choose the script, director, key cast, key crew, that make your project cost-effective to produce, easy to fund, and most likely to be quite profitable.
• Funding: How films at different levels are funded, why some are crowdfunded, others are supported by grants, and others require support from banks and investors. We discuss why some projects are easy to fund, and why others are almost imposslble to fun.
• Attaching the Right Cast & Crew: A film is produced by a team, and a producer acquires, hires, and pays that team. We discuss the risks producer take on when they builds a team, how to minimize those risks, and how to ensure the content created by the team is owned by the producer's production company.
• Accounting, Legal Support, Insurance, Unions: Producing a film requires working with tax accountants, payroll companies, production accountants, and insurance companies. If you want to use SAG Actors, WGA Writers, or DGA directors you'll also be working with unions.
• Distribution: You learn the fundamentals of distributing your film, including how to get distribution pre-sales during development, how to find and work with sales agents, and how to find and use the new rights-sale platforms that let you sell your film worldwide. There have never been more places to sell your movies, or more buyers eager to have them, but it's quite possible to make decisions that basically give your film away for free if you aren't careful.
• Rewards: How does a producer get paid? When do they get paid? How long do they get paid for? Understanding how producers profit from a film is key to understanding when, why, and how to make them.

Profitably producing a feature film requires undertaking all these tasks. Even an ultra-low budget project made over two days involves these operations, they are just easy to undertake.

If you aspire to create more expensive projects, then each of these operations may take months, and if you do them in the wrong order or without the right preparation, your film will never be made and you may well find yourself involve in debt and with a lot of legal hassles you didn't expect.

This primer is designed to help you understand what's involved in producing a feature film, the order of operations that significantly reduces your risk of failure, and how to make sure that the project you want to make has what it takes to go forward.

Right after you order, you get all these resources:

• Recorded Workshop: What Producers Actually Do which reviews the obligations, risks, and rewards associated with being a producer. It also covers the process by which producers develop, fund, and distribute content at minimal risk.
• Recorded Workshop: Making a Film or Web Series with Friends as Partners
• Recorded Workshop: Producing Micro-Budget Features
• Recorded Workshop: Getting Paid (and Paying Others) on Back End Deals
• Recorded Workshop: Contract Law Fundamentals with Attorney Justin Sterling
• Recorded Workshop: Working with a Line Producer
• Recorded Workshop: Fair Use & The Right of Publicity with Justin Sterling
• Contract Law & Work-for-Hire Fundamentals with Attorney Paul S. Levine

If you have any questions, please resources, email nancy@nancyfultonmeetups.com. I look forward to being of service to you. 

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Duke Miller / Miller-Gregson Productions, Inc – “I’ve had the pleasure to be associated with Nancy since she was doing “Meet Ups” in Santa Monica. She has always been quick to provide useful and timely information and knows her stuff. As a producer, I can tell you that Nancy is the real deal and highly recommend her. “

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David Willis Producer / Director / Writer at United States Motion Picture Company – Nancy is an endless cornucopia of knowledge of the film industry. In a space where there is so much incorrect information, she is a great source of real and practical knowledge. Whether you’re brand new to the biz or just looking to brush up on a particular subject — she’s your gal!

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Mark Hackman Veteran; Speaker; Start-Up/Business Advisor; Success Coach; Direct Sales & Network Marketing Consultant — I had the extraordinary opportunity to work very closely with Nancy for over 2 years, and during that time formed some very strongly held opinions about her and how she presents herself to the world….as a team member, as an entrepreneur, and as a human being. A list of attributes that comes to mind immediately includes brilliant, articulate, decisive, relentless, direct and outspoken with a refreshing sense of humor. Nancy’s passion for creativity and breaking new ground reveals itself in everything she does, and her unwillingness to compromise on even the smallest detail speaks to her commitment to her integrity and long-term vision for creating value in everything she does. As the “point person” of an exceptionally vibrant and talented team of Business Advisors and Mentors, Nancy leads by example, unflinchingly takes responsibility for the results of her team, and assures a working environment that encourages free thinking and unabashed creativity. In summary, Nancy’s strength of character, in combination with her extraordinary skill-sets and commitment to excellence, make her a prime candidate for any team or project that seeks nothing short of absolute success.

Jeff Bordeaux Helping People Ditch The “Too Cheap To Be Smart” Mentality @ Feedonomics Nancy was very fun and cool to work with as a producer. Always smiling, her infectious attitude sent waves across the room. She was also very fair and treated everyone she came across with respect.Deborah Hadfield Film Writer/Director Nancy is one of the most intelligent and hard-working people I have ever had the pleasure to work with. As a producer, she is incredibly creative about how to get the job done and produce the most impressive results. Naturally talented people gravitate to Nancy…

Tatjana Torkel (BIG LION 3000+) Success and Goal orientated Entrepreneur and Developer. Nancy is a very self-confident and knowledgeable film producer. She has been helping me with editing my Film Script Winner of evolution. Nice to work with and delivers on time.

Mike Williams, M.F.A. Senior Asset Artist at The Third Floor Nancy is a great Instructor and a great Colleague. She helped me get into UCLA as an Instructor. Her knowledge of the software and material is second to none. I have heard nothing but great comments about her teaching and her classes.

Garry Hargreaves Online Learning Specialist at VET. Nancy Fulton first developed an intensive and totally customized 3D Modeling and Animation training program for me in late 1992 – pre Web. I traveled from Australia to Santa Monica for the program as she was the most knowledgeable and preeminent instructor I could find on the topic. Nancy has to be one of the most intelligent, professional, and gifted writer/instructors I had the pleasure of meeting. Given her skills set the move to film production, screenwriting is an obvious one. I have no hesitation in recommending Nancy and you would be well advised to meet and talk with her.

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