The Business of Film
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Contents

  • Introduction
  • 1 Cultural and economic value of film
    • 1.1 What is the cultural value of film?
    • 1.2 Value and the creative and cultural industries
    • 1.3 Why should we support film?
  • 2 Why film matters to the economy
    • 2.1 Money spent by inward investment films
    • 2.2 The benefits of inward investment
    • 2.3 Should we protect home-grown production?
  • 3 Thinking about the value chain
    • 3.1 The film business value chain
    • 3.3 The value chain stages and power
    • 3.4 Who has the power?
  • 4 Week 1 quiz
  • 5 Culture, economy, value and power
  • Introduction
  • 1 Where do films come from?
    • 1.1 Where films come from
  • 2 Development stages
    • 2.1 Making sure your project is legal
    • 2.2 Why development is so important and so hard
    • 2.3 The development budget
    • 2.4 From idea to screenplay
    • 2.5 Money upfront: ‘pre-pre-production’
  • 3 What does the public funder look for?
  • 4 Week 2 quiz
  • 5 Building the case
  • Introduction
  • 1 What distributors do
  • 2 The distribution life cycle of a film
    • 2.1 A journey through windows
    • 2.2 The changing life cycle of the film
    • 2.3 The marketing plan
  • 3 Theatrical performance
    • 3.1 Analysing the box office
    • 3.2 How profitable is the theatrical release?
    • 3.3 What do the numbers look like?
    • 3.4 Marketability versus playability
    • 3.5 Case study – the release of Spooks: the Greater Good
  • 4 Week 3 quiz
  • 5 Digital solutions
  • Introduction
  • 1 Sources of funding
    • 1.1 Three principal sources
    • 1.2 How does distribution finance work?
    • 1.3 Why there is public funding for film: culture
    • 1.4 Why there is public funding: the economy
  • 2 The bank loan
    • 2.1 The complexities
    • 2.2 Fragmentation of the value chain
  • 3 What factors shape the finances?
    • 3.1 Market value
    • 3.2 Case study: Spooks – the financial package
  • 4 Week 4 quiz
  • 5 Film value chain and innovation
  • Production: the cost and complexity of films
  • 1 The producer’s role: ‘make our days’
    • 1.1 Job roles and how they are paid
    • 1.2 Retaining people
  • 2 The schedule
    • 2.1 Breaking down a scene
    • 2.2 Scheduling the film
    • 2.3 Other costs and considerations
    • 2.4 The final budget
  • 3 Making your film bigger than it costs
  • 4 Week 5 quiz
  • 5 Producer and project
  • Introduction
  • 1 Looking back
    • 1.1 The first of the Bond movies
    • 1.2 When it all went wrong on Dr. No
  • 2 The cost of independent production
    • 2.1 Who holds the power?
    • 2.2 The future
  • 3 End of course quiz
  • 4 Better business, better films
    • 5 End of course round-up
  • References
  • Further Reading
  • Acknowledgements

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