ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how to write for cost effectiveness, how to communicate budgetary limitations to the writer, and how to communicate elements that are critical to sales, which must be incorporated into the proposed script. These are factors that novice producers do not usually take into account when collaborating with writers on a script, and these factors can add up and either drastically increase production costs, thus making the film unable to be financed, or fail to include the specific criteria of the current market desire and in turn, fail to make key territorial sales, which would also make a screenplay unable to be financed. The most cost-effective production plan is to write with a main location in mind, where the majority of the action takes place and then incorporate a few other locations that are easy company moves and do not take vast production time to move and set up again.
