EXPERT INTERVIEWS
The Business Behind the Curtain PART II: Financing/Production
with Damion Taylor, Ray Ellingsen & Michael Praver
Great scripts and lofty ideas are all well and good but, without financing for your project (development funding, production funding, and marketing funds), your project will never get made. In the last webinar we discussed the importance of building an audience for your film. In this session we will be discussing how to get your project funded through all of the necessary stages.
What it really takes to get your film made as an Independent Filmmaker. The studios and distributors are not the end goal – it’s the audience. While most filmmakers understand an audience is important, few comprehend what it takes to build that audience into a tangible asset that gives your project value.
Led by Experts Who Know How to Get Movies Made – Ray Ellingsen, Michael Praver, Nancy Fulton, & Grace Mikolyski
Ray Ellingsen
on key items to think about in development, and the legal and budgeting and planning that go into it.
Jeffrey Hardy
on how the screenplay is almost never completely ready, and items to think about when realizing work still needs to be done and how the development process aids that immeasurably.
Ray Ellingsen
on how talent is important, but the right talent for your film and budget and market are very important. As well, honest talk about how your budget crucially needs to fit in with the film, the talents and the market.
Ray Ellingsen
talks about how to plan in the front end for a crew that puts you in line with financiers, with a completion bond, with a proper director, with a well-edited film, and so on, all to get you to distribution.
Ray Ellingsen
talks about how key vendors integrate across the project, particularly commenting on the marketing and social media folks who work with us.
Jeffrey Hardy
explains how he segments audiences, by age, gender and so on, and matches that to the US Census to get target sizes, and then how that meshes and is enhanced by the marketing folks and social media gurus.
Questions are the root of all answers.
Don’t Be Shy!