Developing countries, Idependent, Internaional co-productions

 

Developing countries is the name of the production context that Africa, Asia, and Latino Americans are included in, they are called this as they are made up of third world countries which are very poor. These places have recentely started to shoot films and get the equipment to do this in the last few years, the technology in these areas is quite underdeveloped. The narratives for these films usually run along the same kind of story idea. An advantage to this is it could bring money into these poor countries. A disadvantage to this is the quality of the film is quite bad. Small companies distribrute the films over seas. In Nigera they have a production name of Nollywood, they have an aim for this to bring more money into the country and to create more jobs, other aims of theirs can be found at http://www.projectactnollywood.com.ng/content.php?id=10

 

Independent is another production context, this is usually films done by a subcompany of a big production company, to qualify as an independent film the production can't have any more than half of the money for the film coming from a big production company, the rest is usually from other investors, examples of these are; Warner Independent Pictures, Paramount Classics, Focus Features, Think Film, Lionsgate Entertainment, Fox Searchlight, Sony Pictures Classics and Mirmax Films. The budget for an independent film is never really as big as a British or Hollywood film. Independent films should always try to have one star in their film as it will give the viewers a recognisable face, seeing this on a trailer or picture advertising the film will make more people want to watch it. Another thing to attract an auidience is to enter the independent film into competitions to win awards, being able to show these on advertisments could help the films auidience grow dramatically.

International co-productions is where two or more countries work on a film together. This helps widen the audience as the film will be realised under both/ all countries involved in making it. The budget could be quite big as they can get money from more than one source. A disadvantage to this is travel costs as cast and crew would have to travel to different countries and this would consume a lot of the budget. Having to deal with two or more goverments can also be a disadvantage as the production will have to abide by their laws. There are taxes to film and these are different depending on what country the production is happening. When these films are distributed they have different distributers in each country invloved then if they sell abroad they would use other distributers then too