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Flashcards by amyawhittingham, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by amyawhittingham
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| INDEPENDENT DEFINITION - | An independent film is a film production resulting in a feature film that is produced mostly or completely outside of the major film studio system. Film4 is a British independent company. Although they are independent they do associate and work with Hollywood companies. |
| HOLLYWOOD DEFINITION - | Hollywood films are the main entertainment in the industry involved in producing and distributing blockbuster movies. Warner Bros is classic example as it is one of the big 6 Hollywood film companies. |
| INDEPENDENT CONS - | If you’re producing, you might be the one who has to raise the financing and shop the script or finished picture at film festivals and markets to attract distribution deals and investors. It’s a long road to travel with no guarantees along the way. Being on a tighter budget, you’ll continually find yourself coveting more time, money and help and will have to be more creative and more careful about how you spend your budget dollars. You will undoubtedly not be able to afford all the locations, props, equipment, sets, effects, extras and cast and crew members on your wish list, and compromise will become your middle name. You’ll have smaller margins for error and less time to deal with high-maintenance personalities. If you’re working non-union, overtime, meal penalties and/or health and pension benefits may be an impossibility. |
| INDEPENDENT PROS - | If you can raise the funding, you’re free to make a film that’s close to your heart, one with some profound social significance or one your gut just tells you will be a commercial money-maker. There’s a growing market for indies, as significant segments of the theatre-going public are growing tired of big studio blockbusters and sequels. For the most part, indies will afford you more freedom in the form of creative decisions, in having to answer to fewer people and in terms of fewer regulations. If you’re doing a non-union picture, you can use a smaller crew. Free of restrictions, a non-union director of photography can also operate the camera, production assistants and other crew members can drive their own vehicles, you can hire a two-person sound department instead of a three-person crew, and you can hire grip/electricians as needed instead of grips and electricians or an extra hair/makeup person as needed rather than one of each. |
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