At it's heart, the independent film movement is driven by private equity -- both the expansiveness of your college buddies or parents' (or proverbial dentist's) portfolio, or the adventureousness of private hedge funds looking for new investment opportunities. But the distance between macro economic goings on and the money hitting an indie filmmaker's LLC is so vast that we often don't consider how the broader economy is affecting our own.
Here, then, is a
clear and sobering article from
Agonist that explains the current sub-prime mortgage mess, the possible contagion resulting from it, and both its best and or worst case scenarios.
Is it directly relevant to indie film right now? No... but it might be soon.
# posted by Scott Macaulay @ 8/04/2007 03:06:00 PM
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Excellent topic! However if one sticks to the old fashioned blinders way of "shooting film" where it's shot on 16 or 8mm, it's best someone mentioned the realities of making movies that so much better than that amateur way of making movies.
The answer. It's simple! Go digital! An investment of $10,000 will easily give you a camera, lights, tripod, editing system and a delivery medium as well.
So cast off the shackles of shooting on film, which is soon becoming an obsolete movingmaking medium.
So you should be thinking about MOVIEMAKING and not box yourself into a narrow, inferior medium of film.
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posted by @ 8/06/2007 10:38 AM
