The blog for aspiring & established filmmakers of independent films. by ted hope.

An Endless Cycle Of Diminishing Returns

  • This is how it goes…
    • Decreasing global value of non-blockbuster filmed content
      • leads to decreasing funding which
      • leads to decreasing budgets
      • which leads to decreasing scope of execution
      • which limits content & style
      • which often reduces audience size & impact.
    • Lower budgets lead to 
      • lower fees which leads to
      • reduced access to international stars, which
      • lowers value estimates of the film
      • which reduces budgets and fees further,
      • which reduces creative individuals ability to support themselves in the field.
      • Which reduces availibility of quality product
      • Which reduces audience satisfaction and faith in the industry
  • Which gets us to the world we live in today.

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Ted Hope is a “holistic film producer”: he aims to be there from the beginning and then forever after, involved in every aspect of a film’s life cycle and ecosystem, as committed to engineering serendipity as preventing problems, as obsessed with lifting the good into the great, as he is…

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