Read A WHOLE LOTTA budget numbers for both Hollywood studio films and independent films.How can you know this?
Read A WHOLE LOTTA budget numbers for both Hollywood studio films and independent films.
After a while you notice what things start racking up the price to make something.
Actor pay
Locations, both number of and quality (This is why the adventure genre costs the most to produce.)
Costumes (Period pieces are reported to cost 3X what a contemporary setting film would cost just because of the costumes.)
Props
Gunfights are cheaper than fist and sword fights.
Action fims typically have many brief edits compared to other genres, this increases costs.
Destroying property costs money.
Crashing vehicles costs money.
CGI and general SFX costs money,
Extensive makeup and prosthetics add to the costs.
Art has no limits.Is this really necessary?![]()
Extensive makeup and costumes. I actually love these things. Especially if the extensive makeup is like the melting guy in robocop. There is no property destruction or crashing vehicles though. Nor epic locations or something. No special effects no sci-fi things. The only things I'm worried about are the extensive violence (sometimes against women and children) and that there are too many actors because there are too many deaths.
Art has no limits.
Action looks hideous on low budget.
Horror tends to look really bad on a low budget. Except for SAW.
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Action looks hideous on low budget
There's consequences.