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Q: Why do companies pay for sponsors? A: companies pay for sponsors so that they can be associated with certain events, particularly small companies as it helps to increase their public profile and brand awareness in a relatively cost-effective manner. A company can benefit in many ways from sponsorship. Generates funding.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ESHJKat6ds  Low budget production as it was only in one location - they used their own school to film at.  The special effects used were not super expensive and hard to use. They were sponsored by Mini Cooper and beats headphones. The remaining funding was used to promote and distribute the video to give it a lot of publicity. Similarly they included Will Poulter who was an up and coming actor at the time as he had just been in were the millers- this video would have also helped his career.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MejbOFk7H6c   OK GO music video sponsored by Chevrolet  the purpose of ...

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/may/31/hollywood-and-tv-put-the-squeeze-on-uks-low-budget-film-makers Paragraphs on article: As the Cannes film festival came to a close for another year, a combination of increasingly risk-averse Hollywood movie system addicted to blockbuster franchises and the global explosion in mega-budget TV drama is putting the squeeze on smaller films. Cannes prize-winners are among the few low-budget productions that are guaranteed success in the modern cinema market. In the UK, the number of domestic films costing £500,000 to about £30m to make, such as T2: Trainspotting and Florence Foster Jenkins, fell from 77 to 60 between 2014 and 2015 - this is the lowest number made since 2006. Similarly the number of small to mid-sized budget co-productions fell from 37 to 30- a level not seen since 2008. On the other hand, the Hollywood blockbusters made in the UK, such as Star Wars: The Last Jedi, remain rocksteady, with just under 20 films produced in 2015. ...

Film Revenue: crowdfunding: the practice of funding a project or venture by raising money from a large number of people who each contribute a relatively small amount, typically via the Internet. Crowdfunding is a way for people, businesses and charities to raise money. It works through individuals or organisations who invest in crowdfunding projects in return for a potential profit or reward.  The advantage of using crowdfunding as a budgeting method is that it can be seen as a valuable form of marketing and if a project is successful it can get huge amounts of attention, on social media and elsewhere, which can help them grow beyond what the money raised alone could have done. Budgeting: is a creative tool and will only help you create a plan to pull off your movie. before you start a budget you need to know;  the story and the script of your movie how many characters are in each scene how many locations are in your story how many wardrobe changes there are h...

Low budget film making tips and advice: Resource film making - using pre existing resources to make a movie. You would begin with the resources you have available and plan a film and budget from the resources available. Find budget List locations - find locations that are free or very easy to use. Actors - family/friends that will do it for free and have an interest in acting or can act (primary audience), websites that have uni actors that will do it for a low price. Also consider whether or not they have experience. Equipment - can you borrow/rent gear for free or relatively cheap. Interesting items that you have access to eg. junk yard, stuff in the garage. That can be incorporated into the script for your film. Writing the script; you want to keep locations to a minimum eg. feature film: 4/5 locations and a short film: 1/2 locations. the key is to keep travelling time and costs to a minimum.  You also want to keep your characters to a minimum eg. 4/5 - fewer...

the five purposes of media are; 1. inform 2. educate 3. entertain 4. promote 5. advertise