The Plan Should Be as Real as the Creative

I’m Nicholas Ward, a Los Angeles based line producer, production manager, and consultant with more than a decade of production management experience.

I spent more than nine years as Head of Production at Herzog & Company from 2015 through 2024. I oversaw projects from early development, budgeting, scheduling, and staffing through production, post, client relationships, and final delivery.

My work spans documentary television, streaming series and specials, branded content, digital production, live events, and independent media. I have worked as a line producer, executive in charge of production, production manager, and consultant.

I created My Media Budget to make experienced production thinking more accessible to creators, filmmakers, documentary teams, and smaller production companies that may not have a full production office behind them.

SELECTED CREDITS

The Bloody Hundredth, Apple

MPOWER, Marvel Studios and Disney+

The 2010s, CNN

Watergate: Blueprint for a Scandal, CNN

The History of College Football, ESPN

Real Time with Bill Maher: Anniversary Special, HBO

Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On, Netflix

Adobe MAX and Adobe Summit

Additional selected work for CNN, History, Oxygen, documentary, branded, digital, and live production.

If you have a project that needs a realistic budget, schedule, or production plan, share the materials you have and the decision you are trying to make.