Big Budget Research Paper

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Why movies do not need big budgets Movies make a lot of money. Up to a billion dollars can be made off of one movie. Logic dictates that a movie that makes a huge sum of money must be made with an even more colossal budget. This is not the case. Movies do not need big budgets in order to be successful. The concept of a film or a movie originated with Eadweard Muybridge. Eadweard Muybridge was one of the first to experiment with film in motion to bring pictures to life. That began with a commision from Leland Stanford, former governor of California. He asked Muybridge to capture his racehorse in motion with all of its hooves off the ground. Muybridge said it would be impossible but still tried. He lined several cameras along a race track. In …show more content…

In this time several important decisions needs to be made. One of these decisions are the distribution of the budget for the film. The average movie budget for 2007 was 109 million USD("Why Do Movies Cost so Much to Make?") a large sum of the money goes into marketing for the movie. About 35.9 million. Post-Production is the longest and most expensive part of making a movie. In this stage of film making, studios hired by the companies producing the film work tirelessly day and night for what is sometimes years. This whole time they are working with special effects, cutting the movie together, audio and sound design, and so much more to produce finished films. It is the most expensive because the money needed to pay for the software and time to use the studios with the professional tools and equipment take millions. About 14 million USD for a movie with large amounts of CGI. Post-production is important and costly, but even with small budget films a lot of time and money can be saved by using techniques such as practical effects. Practical effects is the use of non computer generated effects such as makeup, prosthetics, and puppetry. The look of practical effects in movies gives them a very real feeling as if the events of the movie really took place. A very well known example is the use of models and prosthetics in the film Star Wars. Several creatures and spaceships in the film were constructed by model …show more content…

Sundance is one of these festivals. Held annually in Utah, Sundance is the largest independent film festival in the United States. Every year thousands attend to celebrate the brilliance behind independent film making and several critics attend to issue prizes and ranks for the movies shown. The most recent festival’s winner was the film “The Birth of a Nation”. The budget was 10 million USD and was bought by Fox Searchlight films for 17.5 million USD. This is the highest grossing film to ever be shown at the festival. The reviews posted online were overall pleased and the movie was named a success. (“Sundance Institute

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