1. PRODUCTION

2. What’s the first thing you need when making a film?
AN IDEA
What’s the second thing you need when making a film?
MONEY
How do you get the money?
INVESTMENT
How do you get the investment?
TREATMENT

3. “The single most important fact, perhaps, of the entire movie industry is that nobody knows anything... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.” Two time Academy Award winning screen writer - William Goldman
How do you make an ‘educated’ guess for the success of a film?

4. Franchise Sequels Star Director Genre CGI High Definition
How do you make an ‘educated’ guess for the success of a film?
Franchise
Sequels
Star
Director
Genre
CGI
High Definition
48 Frames per Second
3D Cameras

5. How much does a film have to make before it goes into profit?
NEGATIVE COST
Money spent before profit
What makes up the negative cost of 60%?
How much does a film have to make before it goes into profit?
If a film costs $60m it will need to make $150m

6. The making of a film Pre – production Post - production Production
Planning
Research
Budgeting
Casting
Scheduling
Film editing
Sound editing
Soundtrack
FILMING

7. ABOVE – THE - LINE COST BELOW – THE - LINE COST Producer fees
Fixed costs of film production
Producer fees
Performer fees
Director fees
Technician costs
Food
Costumes
Equipment hire
Scenery
Film stock
Hotel Costs
Properties
BELOW – THE - LINE COST
Changeable costs of film production

8. How has digital technology changed production processes in the film industry?

9. What are the positives and negatives of conglomerates and integration in film?