From camera to television a film must pass many stages, capital must be raised to finance all areas, this includes actors fees. Which range from over line costs where only a percentage of final takings are handed over. This is popular with actors such as Ewan McGregor who likes to work on low budget films. Whereas other actors may demand underline costs which is a fixed fee, not variable with the success of the film. This can be very expensive, e.g. a world-class star such as Bruce Willis may gain $20 million from a film. These costs may be lowered with usinglower class? actors. After Actors there are many other negative costs, which a filmmaker must tackle, this includes production expenses, which make up 60% of costs. Other costs also include promotion where an average movie goes into 20,25,30 million dollars?- as quoted by Bernard Weinraub from the New York Times. Some films such as Titanic can run up costs of over $200 million depending on the extent of sets etc. Yet it is not the filmmaker who had tocough? up this money, actually it was two separate film companies, Paramount and 20th Century Fox, who paid for all production costs, in the filmTitanic?. Smaller filmmakers may find help from the lottery, who have set up 3mini-studios?, which part finance films such asFour Weddings and a funeral? set up byDNA Films Ltd?. Other film financers include, banks, wealthy individuals or investment companies, yet to gain funding ideas must be original and almost secured success, all ideas are presented in the form of a treatment. Once the investor agrees it will then demand a return from profits of sales. Commissioning which is explained above fits into one of three categories when producing a film, this is pre-production, and involves other components such as casting and designing, yet before this can be achieved the film writer has to plan every element. Planning is very important in securing a films success, it includes planning where shoots are to take place the finances which will be spent etc.
