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The first 2 films in this series recruited about $80K. How is that enough for producing a movie ? does anybody know how their business model works?

• Joeboy 10y ago
  In general when features get made for that kind of money, it means the production values are low and everybody is working for nothing or low rates in the hope it'll help them get paid work in future. It's shockingly easy to find film crew who'll work for free.
  • laughfactory 10y ago
    This is true. And also because there's nothing quite like working on a movie. Some of my fondest memories are of working on various film and TV shows in a wide variety of capacities.
• anigbrowl 10y ago
  You can make a feature very cheap but it's difficult to make a profit on it, plus there's a big trade-off between the quality of work you get if you pay or not. Film people help each other out for free frequently cause they're artists, but sadly the model for micro- and no-budget films has shrunk by about half over the last 15 years, so it's very difficult to make a living on small projects compared to even a decade ago.
  • petra 10y ago
    The production values are quite good,at least according to promos , that's what's surprising about this.
    • anigbrowl 10y ago
      It's absolutely doable on a small budget. The tricky part is bootstrapping that to get to a higher budget. When you produce a great product at a low budget there's some pressure to promote the cheapness/economy angle as a selling point. But as you go for a higher level of quality, whether technical or aesthetic, the costs don't scale linearly with the budget. So above a certain budget you might come under pressure to sign industry agreements on guild membership or labor contracts in order to be able to hire the people you want, so the financial calculus changes.