How does a films budget affect its production

Budgets are important to the success of a film. If the production company has a lot of money to spend on the film it’s more likely to be hit because the quality of the production is higher. Warner bro’s are a huge American based company who produces big budget films.

The Dark Knight by Warner Bro’s had a budget of $185 million which is a huge budget on top of that they had $100 million for marketing having this much money allows them to get big name actors that people will recognise making them more likely to go see the film, they can also afford the best technology to produce the film like top CGI animation, explosive fight scenes and futuristic cars. The dark knight was mostly filmed in Chicago, one of America's most famous cities as well as other locations in the UK and Hong Kong to get the best locations Warner Bros needed alot of money.

smaller film companies such as working title team up with bigger companies to get more funding, working title works closely with universal studios who pay for marketing outside of the UK. Hot fuzz had a budget of £8 Million substantially smaller than The Dark knights.

The Dark Knights marketing had a lot of Internet based content, but it also had games and action figures promoting it as well, hot fuzz on the other hand, had t-shirts, video blogs and the usual posters, trailers and interviews, with more money the Dark knight could afford to do that and more.

the dark knight was filmed in huge cities while hot fuzz was film in wells, a quiet countryside town, the complete opposite to the dark knight location wise.

£8 million is still quite a lot of money, it can get you some relatively well known actors and half decent location and pretty good marketing, This Is England, had a budget of £1,500,000. Massively different from both the Dark knight and Hot Fuzz. FilmFour, again, had to team up with another company to get it distributed and marketed outside of the UK, the only marketing in the UK was the normal, posters, interviews and trailers. most of the film was done in abandoned areas of Nottingham. All of the actors in the film are unheard of, this is because the budget was no where near big enough to afford big name actors or even actors like Simon pegg from hot fuzz

the more money a company has, the more likely the film will be a success, having the best locations, best actors and best marketing are vital for pulling in the biggest audience