First You Get The Money Then You Get Movie Making Juice
First You Get The Money Then You Get Movie Making Juice
It takes hard work, dedication, patience and the ability to listen to advice for an aspiring indie filmmaker to rise up the ranks. There are many talented people that never make it because they rush down a street that leads to a dead end.
Any natural ability and talent someone has for telling a story using moving pictures goes wasted and undiscovered by viewers when ego directs their course of action. Making movies is a bottom line business. Creativity supplies the content, but financial savvy drives the entertainment industry. How do a lot of new moviemakers get tripped up when producing a film?
They move forward without having a funded budget in place. They enter into signed agreements with cast and crew prematurely. The money never materializes as planned and the project never gets off the ground. It is an emotional let down for filmmakers
and anyone involved with the project.
The filmmaker stands to lose credibility even if it isn’t their fault that the anticipated money to make a movie never comes to be. Investors can pull out last minute for different reasons. It takes time to plan and schedule a production. Financial situations can and do change for movie investors during that time causing money to dry up because shifts in the stock or real estate market etc.
Signed cast and crew can feel resentful because not only is there no longer a paying film gig, but also time was wasted thinking about a movie that never happened. This is worse if they passed up a solid offer to work on another film that did have money to make.
Cast and crew missed out on getting exposure and a payday agreeing to work on movie that was never real in the first place. Without money to support a film production all
that remains is a story idea, a screenplay, or an unrealized movie dream.
Only when a movie budget is fully funded should a producer greenlight a film to go into full swing hiring people. Independent film funding falls through more than any screenwriter, producer, actor, crew member or director would like it to.
I had this conversation with Tim Beachum a good friend and post-production fixer. First you get the money. Then you get the movie making power. The first movie is the toughest to find money for because a newcomer to film has no track record or past movies to show. The way around that is to have a strong Internet presence and movie pitch package available. This is indie filmmaker Sid Kali typing JUMP CUT.
Sid Kali takes you inside his life as a filmmaker. Get the scoop on screenwriting, producing, directing, and movie distribution. Visit his blog Slice of Americana Films Also check out Movie Biz Coach a crisp way to learn the ins and outs of the movie business.
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