As a freelancer or production company representative, are you as good as you could be at budgeting and bidding? Are you charging too little or too much? Do your bids say the right things to help you get the right jobs at the right price?

Attend January’s MCA-I San Diego chapter meeting to learn from a diverse panel of seasoned professionals how to:

Presenters

Mike Kurtz is a one-man video machine with a very impressive list of clients and nearly 100 industry awards. In addition to producing and directing, he shoots custom time-lapse photography for the San Diego Airport, LEGOLAND and TaylorMade Golf. 

Michael Finn is an Account Manager with Script to Screen—one of the nation’s premier Direct Response TV production companies based in Orange County. Previously, Michael worked on budgets as a producer with such top production companies in San Diego as Four Square Productions, The Dakota Group, and Digital Outpost.

Cliff Pia is the President of Millennium Creative Group working with such companies as Pepsi, Tropicana, Sony, Duracell, Toshiba, and Disney. He started as a musician, learned how to engineer recording sessions, then later founded his virtual production company to serve clients with high-end production and marketing branding services from both coasts.

MCA-I Board Member and producer, Jim Staylor will serve as emcee to facilitate discussion among this illustrious panel with Q&A. We’ll also play a game called, “Guess the Budget” whereby the audience will see a short clip of a video project and try to determine how much it cost.

Special Raffle Prize and Discount Coupon

Win an EP Budgeting software package – Provided by The Writers Store

The Writers Store has donated one copy of EP Budgeting (formerly Movie Magic Budgeting), a $499 value, as a raffle prize and has provided $100 EP Budgeting and Scheduling discount coupons for everyone in attendance.

For more information about The Writers Store and this amazing piece of budgeting software, click here or call (800) 272-8927. Please mention or enter promo code “MCAI” to receive this special discount. Discount is taken from MSRP and expires 2/28/09

Other prizes include 2 MCA-I flash drives, and an  instructional DVD from Jim Staylor called, “How to Keep Your DO-IT-YOURSELF VIDEO From Looking Like You Did It Yourself” (a $24.95 value with $400 worth of forms in the DVD-ROM), and other goodies.

Food and beverages will be provided by Papalulu’s Catering of La Jolla. Papalulu’s specializes in on-site cooking, craft service and full-service catering with Tropical, Baja, and Hawaiian themes. In Southern California for 20 years. No job too big or too small. Contact Nancy at 858-405-5928 or papalulus1@aol.com.