Do more with less. That's a 2025 tshirt slogan. Honestly looking at a 6 day shoot: Ireland vs Louisiana. The total expenditure is too small to qualify for the tax credits. There has got to be a way to get stories made!
6 Day shoot! Yeah getting stories made at the micro level means reaching into your own pocket and/or pairing that with other methods of equity financing whether that's crowd funding, brands, donor contributions (for impact films), or any other creative ways you can t think of!
Had a great week with the independent reality series you've been helping me lock in.
I also received 2 other pitches this past week, one for an impact documentary and another for a docu-series that people want me to partner with them and help produce.
With unscripted series content, what else should we be looking for, other than what the networks are buying, to make sure a project is viable?
This is FASCINATING! and weirdly encouraging. The world of publishing seems like it's truly withering on the vine, but I think/hope film and tv production is simply changing. Perhaps it was more bloated and unsustainable than publishing.
Great update. Appreciate the reality check on what your film can realistically get in the current market. Nailing the budget starts with the screenplay.
Yes it absolutely does! Or rewriting the screenplay to 'fit' a budget that works for market realities. This is very common these days - writers having to take a 'production' pass to fit a certain budget level. Funny enough, the script usually comes out better! 🙌
Do more with less. That's a 2025 tshirt slogan. Honestly looking at a 6 day shoot: Ireland vs Louisiana. The total expenditure is too small to qualify for the tax credits. There has got to be a way to get stories made!
6 Day shoot! Yeah getting stories made at the micro level means reaching into your own pocket and/or pairing that with other methods of equity financing whether that's crowd funding, brands, donor contributions (for impact films), or any other creative ways you can t think of!
Hi Stacey, Raising my hand here. ✋🏼
Had a great week with the independent reality series you've been helping me lock in.
I also received 2 other pitches this past week, one for an impact documentary and another for a docu-series that people want me to partner with them and help produce.
With unscripted series content, what else should we be looking for, other than what the networks are buying, to make sure a project is viable?
That's great news Tim! What genres are they? I would make sure you see a platform where they could eventually end up. Any thoughts around that?
Thanks, Stacey! Both of these I would believe fall into social documentary genre.
Great question, I'll do some research to see what platform they could work on.
Thank you!
This is FASCINATING! and weirdly encouraging. The world of publishing seems like it's truly withering on the vine, but I think/hope film and tv production is simply changing. Perhaps it was more bloated and unsustainable than publishing.
Glad it's encouraging Brent! We need some of that these days lol
Great update. Appreciate the reality check on what your film can realistically get in the current market. Nailing the budget starts with the screenplay.
Yes it absolutely does! Or rewriting the screenplay to 'fit' a budget that works for market realities. This is very common these days - writers having to take a 'production' pass to fit a certain budget level. Funny enough, the script usually comes out better! 🙌