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
The reason why movies are so expensive to produce, market and distribute is that there is a long list of people involved in the process of filmmaking. Producers, writers, directors, actors, technical crews, film crews, set designers, costume designers, hair stylists and makeup artists, are some of the people who need to be paid whose names are seen as the credits roll at the end of any film. Not to mention the overhead costs of a myriad of equipment, props and the costumes themselves required in the production of a film. There are travel, food and shelter expenses if a movie is filmed on location and not in a Hollywood studio (there is a fee to use studio space as well). Once the actual filming of a movie is completed, more people are involved in editing, special effects and sound. These expenses are dependent on the sophistication of the technology and expertise. Additionally, and most costly is the marketing and distribution of a film.
Most people are likely to relate Hollywood with money. If a person lives in the Hollywood area, people assume she or he is probably rich. If she or he is a Hollywood movie star, the person probably makes a lot of money. Therefore, to follow that line of thought, when Hollywood producers make a movie, they make it just for money. And some filmmakers do seem to make films only for the money the movies will earn. The action movie "Die Hard", the fantasy movie "Star Wars", and the adventure movie "Jurassic Park" are examples of exciting movies that were made just for the money by satisfying the audiences' appetite for escapism.
Muybridge was instrumental in the development of instantaneous photography. To accomplish his famous motion sequence photography, Muybridge even designed his own high speed electronic shutter and electro-timer, to be used alongside a battery of up to twenty-four cameras. While Muybridge 's motion sequences helped revolutionize still photography, the resultant photographs also punctuated the history of the motion picture. Muybridge actually came close to producing cinema himself with his projection device the 'Zoöpraxiscope '. With this device, Muybridge lectured across Europe and America, using the Zoöpraxiscope
Film-making is both an art and an industry. Many people were credited for the invention of motion picture. Some major names associated with motion picture include, Thomas Edison, Eadweard Muybridge, and the Lumiere brothers. There were several stages in the making of motion picture.
“I can make a big-looking movie for very little money by just being resourceful, being creative, using the rubber band versus a lot of technology, and not being ashamed about it.” ~ Robert Rodriguez
On December 28, 1895 Georges was an audience member of the first seen movie or “moving picture” made in the world. This was a very short single reel, one shot film documenting a train pulling into the station. When the image of the train started approaching the audience, the audience screamed thinking they would actually get run over by the train. This revolutionary new type of “magic” was discovered by the Lumiere Brothers, who used their invention, the Cinematographe, to capture the first movie ever made. Melies soon after asked to purchase a camera from the Lumiere Brothers, but they refused. In desperate attempt to utilize this new entertainment tool, he set out to build his own camera.
With this short but very interesting and informative class I have just scratched the surface of the what it takes to make a full fleged film. It takes much more than I had presumed to make a movie in Hollywood. The number of people that it takes to make a minute of a movie let alone the entire movie was astonishing to me. There are many things that it takes to start making a movie but without an idea of some sort there is no movie to be made.
Eadweard Muybridge was a director who made the first movie in 1878, The Horse in Motion. He used multiple cameras and put the individual pictures into a movie. Muybridge’s movie was just pictures of a galloping horse. Muybridge also invented the Zoopraxiscope,the first ever movie projector that made short films and movies. It was able to quickly project images, creating what is known as motion photography and the first movie to ever exist. To use the Zoopraxiscope a disc is put on the device and is turned. As the disc turns, the images are projected onto the screen and the movie starts ...
A major film production, for instance, involves the use of “elaborate cameras, lighting equipment, multitrack, sound-mixing studios, sophisticated laboratories, and computer generated special effects.” (2013:9) Furthermore, it is due to the extensive use of technology in filmmaking that it has adapted to include aspects of business. Companies may manufacture equipment, provide funding towards the film or alternatively may be involved in the distribution process of the film, in which the film enters theatres and other venues where the final product is presented to audiences. Moreover, it can be deduced that technology and financing is therefore essential to
film can make or break a movie. Marketing a film takes up a great deal of the money that is
The Role of Computer Generated Imagery in the Film Industry Computer Generated Imagery is the special effects used in motion pictures to create a visual depiction of an illusion that can not be easily created in real life. Directors of major motion pictures have been using these technologies since the early days of the personal computer. Early on, when and special effects were in their beginning stages, it was difficult to make efficient and effective effects that are well accepted by the movie critics and the general public. An evolution of special effects and the introduction of computerized animation brought the standards for movie effects to a higher level. The development of new methods of Computer Generated Imagery for less money and more effective than in the past has allowed even fairly low budget movies to incorporate such technology.
I looked super weird with a towel wrapped around my lower body as if I was hiding a period accident not a water gun one. I wonder which one is worse. Having no time to ponder over that, we began the clean up.
It started as simple optical toys, progressed to mechanical inventions using motion. These developments in the early nineteenth century lead to the birth of the motion picture industry. In 1891, Thomas Edison invented the Kinetograph and soon to follow the Kinescope, in 1893, America’s first movie studio “The Black Maria” was built on Edison’s land in New Jersey. Inspired by Edison’s work, the Lumiere brothers of France created the camera projector-system called the Cinematographe. It was hand crank and served as camera, projector and film printer.
Now when you go back to the beginning of the making of film, it did not look and run the same way it does today. It did have a similar purpose, which was the “motion of pictures.” Now this was after the invention of photography, so the purpose of this was to put individual images in a way they looked as if they were moving.
Computer technology invades the film industry. The existence of computers have aided in the production of genres of film ranging from action movie special effects, to cartoon animation and claymation. Computer Generated Imagery, better known as CGI, assists filmmakers in many ways. An image can be made two-dimensional from a three-dimensional scene, camera angles can be altered to make a character seem larger and thus more important than its surrounding bodies, and colors can be brightened or neutralized, among other things (Parsons, Oja 1). Without the aid of computers, movies would not have the ability to be what they are today.