Matthew Dalby
Film Financing Above the Line Costs The Rights to a Novel D irector C ast C inematographer L ocation Ed itors
Below the Line Costs
A ccommo d ation
( f or the Cast an d C rew) E ating an d D rinking arrangements ( f or the C ast an d C rew) Rest o f the C rew S torage f or Props, C ost u mes, Equ ipment etc. Ed iting S o f tware
S pecial
Eff ects/ Equ ipment S cript Writers
Pro uction
Distributionand Marketing
Film Idea relating to
Educated Men 35-55
Exhibition
as the Target Audience (Budgeting):
We received funding from the National Lottery and the UK Film Council which means that we had to take 17.5% of our budget before filming as tax. Our budget was £2.5 million and so after taking the tax off of it, we therefore had a budget of £2,062,500. As a British Film had to have 92.5% of the film s running time must have been created in the UK and that the rest of the film must be made in a Commonwealth country or Ireland. Also, the film must be made by a UK or another European registered country (Sourced from the 1985 Film Act). Estimated Number of Hours filming:
1000
ho u rs
The Above and Below the Line costs for our Film Idea:
Above the Line Costs Below the Line Costs The Rights to a Novel Not applicable R oughly, about 500,000 should be put D irector Noel Clarke (7% of the Budget aside for the below the line costs. is the director s pay traditionally. So, 7% of £2,062,500 is £ 1 4 4 , 375) C ast Amateurs @ £6320 (for 1000 hours) x 6 cast members = £ 37, 9 2 0 C inematographers - £62.18 per day = £ 5 0,8 75 (for 2) L ocation British Locations (because of the 1985 Film Act) Sheffield = £ 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 (Prefabricated) Ed itors £22,694 (for 2 Editors) x 2 for 4 Editors = £ 4 4 , 6 9 4 S pecial
Eff ects/ Equ ipment Camera Equipment (£ 35 , 0 0 0 put aside for camera equipment, camera cranes, tripods etc). Props - £ 2 0 , 0 0 0 Script Writers - £ 1 0 0 , 0 0 0
Matthew Dalby
Total: £532,864
Total: £500,000
Total: £1,032,864
That means that we have j u st over £ 1 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 le f t over, so they can be spent on the marketing an any other necessaries du ring pro du ction.
Unfortunately, one of our investors dropped out and therefore cut the budget by one third. Therefore out new budget (after taking tax off of the original £2.5 million budget) was £1,375,000 . This (as you can see above) did not affect our below and above the line costs as we were in budget to start with, enabling us to keep all of our expenditures the same for our film idea. P roduction Ù
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Documentary Notes
Developing it , Funding it , Making it , Taking it into production
A good script is a script that relates to a big idea/or reference (blueprint)
that inspires the director
Instincts and knowledge on the audience can only tell about a good script.
Budget needs to be set in order to get the genre, key cast and director right.
Script development is the process when the script developer and screen writer discuss how it will be put across to the audience. Investors then need to be attracted to the idea (regional film fund; 3 10 investors normally but can go up to 50!) Co-production deals overseas producers join with a British producer. Easier to have multiple investors so that the investor cannot control the film because of the smaller percentage of ownership to the film. This lets the producer and director use their own creativity easily.
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The budget will affect who the producer goes to; to invest.
Planning is a key part of the production. (Breaking it down from the script into a schedule). It s about looking at the cast and if they would fit into the mental picture that the script gives you. Cinematographer director. H
is able to incorporate his/her artistic flow into the script as well as the
ow, why and what you can do to pay parts of the budget needs to be considered.
Break down the script into tables so that you can use it to make a budget props etc. A bove
line costs creative side of the film. Below line costs (schedule it; shoot it).
cast number,
people who are making it
Audience the producer needs to have an idea of where the film will be displayed to and to whom. Is there an audience out there to cover the kind of budget that they have? Marketing a hidden cost (because people don t tend to think about it straight away). Is it marketable? H ow they will sell it from the word go (American attitude). It costs more to market the film than to make it.
