Film Pitches - From Idea To Finished Product

Creating a film is a very expensive and hard process which requires financial help from Grants, Donations, Savings etc.

An opportunity for the film to be financed is from the producer, they are the ones who will provide the funds for the film or they will find the funds for the film. If the producer could not sponsor money for the film themselves then they could rely other sources of funding such as Government Grants. To achieve a grant, there has to be benefits that a film productions could bring to the country and for the citizens, for example Employment Opportunites (for people to help making the movie), The Ecomony, Tourist Attraction (if the film is made in London, some of the audience from different countries might want to visit the setting of the film) and a development of national culture. 

Another opportunity for funding a film used to be the UK Film Council. UK Film Council funded script development, film production, short films, film export and distribution, cinemas, film education, culture and archives, festivals and audience support schemes, and they help develop and promote the film industry in the UK. There were three funds offering around £17 million Lottery funding per year for the production and development of films, but currently the UK Film Council is replaced by the British Film Institute (BFI).

Another way to make money is by Pre-Sales (they will expect certain elements that are likely to guarantee success).

To find a distributor for my film, I would enter in many film festivals as possible, hoping for my film to be recognised and for the film festivals audiences to discover my film for it to be known and blogged so that potential distributors could visit and gain more information about the film.

Also, I would take into consideration that subsidised distributors deal with less populist films and work on small budgets, so their industry profile is inevitably less commanding.

Moreover, employing well-known professional actors/actresses (Marguee, e.g. Leonardo DiCaprio on the left) would help finding a distributor for my film because it would promote my film which will attract the distributors.

In an ideal world, I would want Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation to distribute my film because it is very popular international film studio. That company has franchised many globally successful films such as Alien, Die Hard, Avatar, Star Wars, Predator, Home Alone and many more. 20th Century Fox Film Co. also franchised on popular TV programmes such as The Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, etc.

An example of Twentieth Century Film Co.'s success is from 2009 American film 'Avatar', the film had a budget of $237 million and made a massive $2,782,275,172 in the box office, which proves how successful Twentieth Century Film Co.'s films are.