Question 4: The Importance of Funds
When creating a film funding is
incredibly important to think about. You need to make sure that you have enough
money to create the film and allow it to be shown at its best. Funding can
change everything from script actors and even the entire film sometimes. You
may just not have enough funds to create your film and you might have to
change. Money is the basis most movies run around but even still you can make a
great movie with little to no funds. If your trying to make a little video or
film, it’s you won’t need an insane amount of funds. If it’s a little project
you want to work on not many funding is required.
For
most movies’ funds are crucial to how things are run. If you want Tom Brady,
Robert Downey Jr and Keanu Reeves in your passion project movie then it will
cost you. Not everyone is willing to act in your film you need money to make
that happen. For example, Marvels newest movies made (Infinity War) 2.048 and
2.798 (Endgame) billion dollars. One thing that led to this movie’s success is
their editing and cast and that was all possible through their budget. They had
a budget of 365 million with endgame and 316 million with infinity war and it
shows. They had high quality edits, and special effects while also having some
of the most popular actors at hand. It would not have been possible if they did
not put so much money into this project. If a mere third of the money they used
for that movie was used to create the exact same movie you would notice some differences
in all forms of filming. Another example of this is Harry Potter a movie that
needed to stand up for the high standard the book set up for it. But in order
to make the movie as great as the book they need an incredible amount of funds
to do so. They had a high budget of 130 million on their first movie with it
increasing as they got more popular. This shows as popularity or hype for movie
increases there is a bar set for you that you must climb. This task is achieved
by funding with great editing cast and mis en scene this movie was amazing and
made a great deal of money. In total, the film earned $974.8 million at the worldwide box
office, $317.6 million of that in the US and $657.2 million elsewhere. What
this shows if you want success for your movie you want a high budget with a lot
of money. Showing that funding is incredibly important in the process of making
movies. But that’s only movies.
Funding as important as it is in
movies it is not nearly as important when it comes to small films. Little short
films and animations do not need as much filming. Funds don’t impact the way
these things come out. They usually are distributed on YouTube or some type
website where you can post and share videos, so they don’t need advertisement.
And they aren’t the flashiest videos they don’t require a 1million dollar
budget more like 100 or less. For example, Disney’s originally crated short
film bao was nice and short but still left a place in my heart. While not as
popular it taught me something about letting things go it was cute and funny.
Short films aren’t really shooting to be the most popular thing in the world. They
try and send you a message and leave a special place in your heart funding
isn’t something that is super important they don’t need advertisement the
people who see it and like it will do fine. They don’t need actors they have
friends who can help pitch in. Another example of this is animations. The
little animations created on YouTube get quite popular even though their
created by people who stay at home. It doesn’t cost them a dollar just time.
For example a little short animation made by SuperBrankman gives a short and
funny animation. It accumulated 4million views in a short amount of time. With
a small cast of actors, they don’t need much of a budget. What these examples
are saying is that while funding is incredibly important in some circumstances
it is not needed at all or is barely required. Even if you have lots of funds
it doesn’t mean your movie will come out good.
The emoji movie was a terrible movie that left a bad taste in everyone’s
mouth with 7% rotten tomatoes. It had a budget of 50 million but was nothing in
comparison to rocky with a budget of 1 million and a 94% on rotten tomatoes.
While funding greatly impacts a movie it does not make it.
In the end funding and having a
good budget is still important to making a film but only in certain
circumstances. It is needed more when your trying to make a movie but isn’t
necessary for success. It just increases the chances of doing so. When creating
a short film or animation with the help of friends what does that cost you
nothing. Short films are created using a little amount of money but still are
incredibly impactful they provide stories and themes that you remember. So, in
the end funding is important to how things happen/how its created but even so
don’t make the film. With movies it is greatly needed and can change
everything, and with short films they don’t have much impact and only
contribute to little things. But even still having lots of funds does not mean
good movie.
