BTB - Producing

As i have produced nearly every project so far at university my main research isn't what a producer dose or what goes into a pre production pack but more towards specific areas i am not certain on.

The 2 main ares i need to research into for our group project is fundraising and distribution.  With a bigger budget film and a small crew raising the funds for what we need is going to be a hard task.

From research into producing there are several different ways that a film can gain money.


- Executive producer

An excec producer is someone who is well known in the business who can either help fund the film or find people who can.

- pre sales

This is when you sell the rights to the film before it is complete in exchange for funding for the film, how ever these are hard to obtain as you need a good script or cast.

- crowd funding

This is when you offer the viewer of the film rewards or perks in exchange for sponsering the film

- equity investment

this is when you sell the rights to the film for more money but they also get a % of the profit

For our project we will be using crowd funding, the main thing about this is that we will also be competing with several other graduation films that need crowdfunding as well. This means we will have to pitch our film correctly and at the right time to make sure we get the most of funding we can.

To boost up the word about our film we will create a facebook page and share and talk about the film to raise awareness before asking for money.

We are going to offer reasonable priced rewards for our film to get the most out of people.



for distribution of our film we are essentially saying if you help fund us we will give you a copy of the film how ever we could also distribute it online or at film festivals.