Film Industry Podcast

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Podcast 1:

Film business is strange and unpredictable

Not the most profitable films are the best

Audiences change there mind a lot of the time

You must be prepared for the risks

£1 million (smallest films)- £30 million (big films)

Tax credit is good for films to be made, at the moment

All changed in 2008- financial crash

£5 million is the average film price which doesn't do well with tax

Gap in the market for older audiences

Podcast 2:

People say that in this industry it is 'life and death'.

 Every film is like a start of a business, sometimes it works out well and a franchise is created, high risk and high rewards.

 British industry doesn't exist as the movies are subsidised. British movies are owned by Hollywood

 Screenwriters are the basis of everything

 Movies can take up to 9 years, possibly even more to create

 Screenplay will most likely get changed

 'Development hell' takes a long time to finalise something as it may not be right for the market

 Movies can cost $200 million

 'Blacklist' is a lot of scripts together that haven't gone through

Good script have great value

 Stars sell pictures which makes the actors important to a movie, this can be very expensive

 The movie under the skin took 13 years to complete over that time many different people were hired and therefore the script changed overtime. It had lots of investment from many different investors

 Sometimes it is hard to get distribution on films, some movies use famous actors to view them in order to gain more publicity

 There is a lot of negotiation to get big stars to perform in their movies.

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