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Question from someone who knows nothing about making film: How do two film students get $60K? I get that's a small budget for a movie, but it's a huge amount fo
by harimau777 3y ago
Question from someone who knows nothing about making film: How do two film students get $60K? I get that's a small budget for a movie, but it's a huge amount for a pair of individuals.
- Funes- 3y ago>How do two film students get $60K? I want to know this, as well, especially if you consider that $60K in 1972 was equivalent to today's $445K [1]. 1: https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1972?amount=60000 https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1972?amount=60000
- theyinwhy 3y agoA friend of mine sold the house he inherited for making a movie.
- slg 3y agoThey didn't get $60k for a student film as that is the final budget on the movie. They got a tiny fraction of that to make a short student film. It ended up being so good that they were able to use it as a proof of concept to secure most of that $60k budget to expand it into a feature-length movie. Basically they made an MVP on the cheap and used that to secure additional funding to turn the MVP into an actual product.
- anigbrowl 3y agoRich parents/social circle or maxing out credit cards, typically. It's kinda misleading to call this a 'micro budget film', in 1973 this was a serious chunk of money, equivalent to $2-300,000 today.
- nineteen999 3y agoRobert Rodriguez wrote a fun book about the making of his first feature film (El Mariachi) and how he saved up the money to finance it. On the strength of that he got a contract with Columbia Pictures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_Without_a_Crew https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_Without_a_Crew