Cinema is perhaps the most massive of the arts. More and more people want to shoot something like that and surprise the world. But, unfortunately, cinema, precisely because of its mass character, requires significant financial investments. However, in the modern world it is possible to find funds for the production of a film.
Instructions
Step 1
In Russia, most often the money for the production of films comes from the budget. Unfortunately, the audience is so little interested in contemporary domestic cinema that the production of films rarely pays off, and there is no question of any significant profit. For example, such giants as "Stalingrad" or "Inhabited Island" did not recoup their production. Accordingly, it is rather difficult for a young director to obtain funds for a film in this way.
Step 2
There are several options for getting money to film. Firstly, you can take part in script contests held by GLAVKINO, among the prizes of the competition are grants for training at the New York Academy of Motion Picture Arts or the opportunity to make your own film on the basis of the GLAVKINO complex. Unfortunately, this year the competition has already begun, but you can try to apply next year. To participate in the competition, you must be over 21 years old. No special education in filmmaking is required.
Step 3
A proven way to find money for a full-length film is to make a good short. It will require much less resources and will be able to attract the attention of potential producers. For example, District 9 directed by Neil Blomkamp grew out of the short film Surviving in Joburg. After watching the video, Peter Jackson invited Blomkamp to make a full-length film, expanding the boundaries of the story. As a result, District 9 exceeded its budget seven times ($ 30 million) and received four Oscar nominations, while the budget for the initial short film was only a few hundred dollars.
Step 4
If you do not want to shoot a short film, to diffuse forces, crowdfunding can come to your aid. As part of crowdfunding, people from all over the world can donate funds for projects of interest to them. There are several sites created specifically for this. To include your project in crowdfunding, as a rule, you need to calculate all possible costs, set them out in writing.
Step 5
Shoot a welcome video, develop a gratitude system for everyone who donated more than a certain amount to your project (T-shirts, magnets, badges, mentions in the credits), register on the corresponding crowdfunding site, indicate the required amount for filming and the time for which you hope to collect it (usually no more than two months).
Step 6
Report it on all social networks and ask your friends and family to do the same. Until the specified date, all incoming funds are frozen in the account, and if the required threshold is not reached by the required date, all the money is returned to the donors. If the threshold is exceeded, all the collected funds are at your disposal. A report on further expenses is considered good form. On the website boomstarter.ru, the film project “28 Panfilovites” has thus collected more than three million rubles.
