From the course: Creating a Short Film: 01 Producing
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Finding financing
From the course: Creating a Short Film: 01 Producing
Finding financing
- The money you'll need for your feature film is astronomically more than what you needed for your short film. You might think that you made a 30 minute short for $30,000 dollars so your 90 minute feature should be $90,000 dollars, right? Wrong. If only because of what we've already talked about in this chapter with the legalities involved. It's all far, far more expensive to make a feature film. However, there's actually a really big silver lining here. As we talked about earlier in this chapter there are loads of marketplaces for feature films. So there's a much bigger chance that someone will pay to see yours. And because of all those avenues to get a return on your investment it's a lot easier to get people to invest in your feature, than it is to get people to invest in your short film. Because lets face it, funding a short film is essentially a donation. But when you fund a feature it can be a literal investment. Still because there are a lot of legalities involved and telling…
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