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Why do movies cost so much to make?
by gm-conspiracy 9y ago
Why do movies cost so much to make?
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- trimbo 9y agoThanks to digital, it's substantially cheaper to make a movie today than it was just 10 or 15 years ago. From the film and cameras to the editing process to the effects to the distribution. Distribution is now actually risk-free -- just upload to YouTube if that's what it takes. Probably the only thing that hasn't changed is how much lenses and actors cost. And we got the added bonus of removing nasty chemical film process from our lives! So why are movie budgets higher? It's gotten so easy to make high quality content and distribute it that you have to out-spend/out-spectacle the others. Netflix, HBO, 400 hours of Youtube uploaded per minute is what you're competing against! Software has a lot of similarities. There are a million apps in the app store. Cow Clicker won't get it done anymore. So while it's gotten cheaper and easier, there is more competition. This requires people to attempt larger/more difficult/less-well-defined things than before. This is true in consumer and business software.