How Do You Fund Your Film???

Ornsack · Post by **Ornsack** » Fri Jul 25, 2003 6:22 pm

Keep up Foxy!

El Brenty · Post by **El Brenty** » Fri Jul 25, 2003 9:58 pm

I've now got a copper (who is the helicopter pilot), willing to lend my some police guns for the scenes as well! Some of it's going to be filmed in the local Metropolitan Police Sports Ground, where I use their conference room for the classes!

foxwood · Post by **foxwood** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 12:15 am

cool, this sounds like it should be an interesting film.

mattvols · Post by **mattvols** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 3:20 am

yeah all of my 8 movies I have made I havent spent a dime. The only one I have spent money on was buying paper for my green screen. I have a TV show thats comming on TV in january on my local TV station and it will be made without me spending anymoney.

foxwood · Post by **foxwood** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 3:57 am

8 films no money spent thats impresive, I always seem to spend money and then when I'm done I tend to look and go "Why the Fu*k did I buy that?" Of course I did just spend $200 on a film, and as I look at it I wonder, not why did I buy that but "What the Fu*k did I buy?" Spent money is an interesting thing.

mattvols · Post by **mattvols** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 5:00 am

I make comedy movies though so no special effects or guns or explosives involved.

El Brenty · Post by **El Brenty** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 7:52 am

WOW! Looks like you're the king of No-budget movies (NB-Movies?) there Mattvols!

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 8:53 am

Effects movies are so expensive. My next project has cost me over $300 and nothing has been shot yet, just all prop making

El Brenty · Post by **El Brenty** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 12:59 pm

That's why I think the hold a local viewing with a band after idea is good for getting some of the money back afterwards towards the next movie.

foxwood · Post by **foxwood** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 2:51 pm

Ya, that is a really good Idea, I think I'm going to steal it for the film i'm working on, and credit you when anybody asks,..... But preproduction is where all the cash seems to get spent.

El Brenty · Post by **El Brenty** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 3:00 pm

My thinking behing it is that if the film sucks swampwater, then at least the band will make up for it, and everyone goes home happy (and drunk), and thinks they remembered the film being good, because they had a good time by the end of the evening!

Sell a "limited" number of tickets, then when you're about to sell out, add another night on, and promote it as a "By popular demand" extra night"! That's what they did for the Lynyrd Skynyrd concert!

foxwood · Post by **foxwood** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 3:39 pm

All of that works exsept for the drinking part, Damn 21 year old drinking age over here, that why the British are so happy and strange, your always drunk.

Ornsack · Post by **Ornsack** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 4:00 pm

Cus the legal age is lower here, so we all start drinking younger and therefore become more used to it!

I'm actually severely hungover as I type this, no really! I think I'm dying...

foxwood · Post by **foxwood** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 4:25 pm

I know thats what I'm bitching about, I bought beer when I was over the last year. Another idea about funing films befriend a packrat, because they always have random sh*t laying around in droves, and will never miss any of it.

El Brenty · Post by **El Brenty** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 9:17 pm

All of that works exsept for the drinking part, Damn 21 year old drinking age over here, that why the British are so happy and strange, your always drunk.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot about that! Boy, that really cheeses off the youngsters when they go to the USA on holiday! HA! Don't have to worry about that myself, 31 in December! (Yes, I'm old, and I feel it - I don't act it though! - Mind you, I can do 65 push ups in 1 go comfortably, without stopping for a rest, so that can't be bad!

foxwood · Post by **foxwood** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 9:49 pm

Ya its a pain in the a**, to say the lest. But it is the opisate for all young people that go over to europe, only to get plastered.

El Brenty · Post by **El Brenty** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 9:52 pm

Yeah, there's not much else of a reason to come all the way over here! LOL!:D

foxwood · Post by **foxwood** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 10:03 pm

Unless your like me and have an obsetion with medevil stuff, and shakespeare, other then that your right. Well British beer is better, stronger, better if it was cold but give and take.

El Brenty · Post by **El Brenty** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 10:09 pm

Good point about the beer, we have got some darn good stuff here! Some pubs actually do use coolers - it depends on where you go!

foxwood · Post by **foxwood** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 10:43 pm

I'll remember that.

Ornsack · Post by **Ornsack** » Sun Jul 27, 2003 12:09 am

Where did you go anyway? London?

I got stopped by an American tourist in Bristol the other day asking for directions... Which made me think, why the hell would someone go to Bristol for a holiday (vacation..?

)?

foxwood · Post by **foxwood** » Sun Jul 27, 2003 4:06 am

Ya I went to London, for a week last spring. Had fun. Spent most on my time in the underground, minding the gap, like a stupid touritst. And I was looking at everything, wondering why it cost so much.

El Brenty · Post by **El Brenty** » Sun Jul 27, 2003 9:13 am

Bristol Tourism: Well there is the Clifton Suspension Bridge, The Cabot Tower, The Nails and the old buildings just around the centre, The oldy worldy shops of Park Street, the Cathederal, The docks, OH! And I suppose the Galleries must really be pulling in the tourists by the 100000!

I did a project on Tourism in Bristol for Geography at school! Got an A+ for it to!

Yes, London is well overpriced, but that's simply cuz they're trying to rip the tourists off! Don't forget foxwood, we on purposely make our equivilent of dimes and nickels the opposite size, so we can confuse y'all, and short change you!

Ornsack · Post by **Ornsack** » Sun Jul 27, 2003 2:00 pm

Originally posted by CamClub
Bristol Tourism: Well there is the Clifton Suspension Bridge, The Cabot Tower, The Nails and the old buildings just around the centre, The oldy worldy shops of Park Street, the Cathederal, The docks, OH! And I suppose the Galleries must really be pulling in the tourists by the 100000!

Oh, silly me, Bristol must be really exciting! I went to the Galleries a couple of hours ago and still can't get over the excitement of it all

Ah, Foxwood, I feel for you... I can't stand the underground. Try going on it in rush hour in mid-summer, what a laugh... Body odour galore. Glad you had fun anyway

foxwood · Post by **foxwood** » Sun Jul 27, 2003 2:27 pm

Beter then some of our subways. Yep got to stick it to the tourists, but even MacDonals seemed really expensive.