Financial constraints

Key financial constraints

• Staffing - Paying from the staff and for their training to ensure they know what they are doing 
• Premise - Paying for the location to be where u will be based 
• location - Where you will go to film or take the resources 
• Legal costs - Where you will need to pay for things like copyrighting, trademarking and intellectual property 
• Transport - transporting the equipment and people to the location 
• Resources -The resources you will need to make your photoshoot or film happen and without them you can't get anything down.

Notes on article:

• Small film makers struggle to make the big screen at the Cannes film festival.
• A combination of an 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.
• The number of domestic UK films costing from £500,000 to about £30m to make, fell from 77 to 60 between 2014 and 2015. This is the lowest number made since 2006. The number of small to mid-sized budget co-productions, fell from 37 to 30, a level not seen since 2008. 
• As well as the changing focus of the film industry, pressure is being ramped up by the boom in big-budget drama flooding TV, typified by shows such as Netflix’s £100m co-production The Crown.
• The BFI says the figure for inward production investment in TV, mostly from US companies such as Amazon, Netflix and HBO, nearly doubled from £252m in 2013 to a record of almost £500m last year.
• "We are in a golden age of TV production."
•  Sky has 80 – and traditional broadcasters such as ITV and the BBC have upped their game with huge hits such as Broadchurch and Line of Duty.