Guild of Scenic Artists: Budgeting tools are a necessity for conveying fiscal information to the design team. As a Charge, I have gone through many iterations of estimating templates before I landed on what I currently use. I have found estimates to not only help me convey information, but they have also given me clout in meetings where I had none before.
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This is fascinating. I never thought of the paint process in such a way. I work with budgets all the time but they are usually related to lighting and set construction. Never anything dealing with paints. For those, I always just asked the paint person what colors, what sizes and so forth and would send one of my staff out to get it from the local paint or hardware store. Having this in my toolchest of things to consider will significantly improve my budgeting for paints and ensuring that not only am I getting quality paint, but also at the best deals. Paints always seems to the be ones that get the short end of the stick, especially in the budgeting process. This will also allow me to say to someone that it’s more than we can afford for the show and have numbers to back it up or to be able to accurately gauge what effects can be painted and what stuff should just be purchased.
I had found this article on my own this past week and absolutely fell in love with it. The way in which they lay out all the information just keeps making me say "yes" every five seconds. Far too often are the vast majority of these steps skipped over and or completely ignored. I have been a scenic artist and know the value of these critical pieces of information and tracking that should always be done but are often not. The key thing I have found when wearing the hat of the technical director but knowing what the charge artist is thinking and needs is that these can serve as create checks from them but not to impose over constraint of "everything must pass through me" rules. Just saying that one would like to see some of this paperwork because you are curious about there process can be enough to let you peek behind the curtain and not make them feel like your the tyrant from up on high.
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