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A low budget film is a very cheaply produced film. Young or unknown directors often make a low-budget debut film due to a lack of funding from studios, who are not willing to invest in a film which seems unlikely to become successful.
It is not determined what amount of budget qualifies a film as a low budget production. Low budget is relative from country to country, and varies depending on genre, e.g a comedy film made for $20 million will be considered a modest budget, whereas an action film on the same $20 million would be considered low budget.
Examples
The most successful low budget film was the 1972 film Deep Throat, which cost only $25,000 to produce, yet brought in over $600 million, though this figure is often disputed. Another successful low-budget film is Clerks by director Kevin Smith. Clerks was made on less than $30,000, but its success helped launch the career of Kevin Smith, who as of September 2007 has made six more films.Micro budget
A micro budget film is that which is made on an extremely low budget, sometimes as little as a few thousand dollars. An example of such would be the popular 1992 El Mariachi, in which the director Robert Rodriguez was unable to afford second takes due to the $7000 budget. Despite this, it was a success, both critically and commercially, and kick-starting the young director's career, which continues today, 15 years after his debut film.Another example would be the 1977 cult film Eraserhead, which cost only $10,000 to produce (Although it may be worth noting 30 years of inflation since the film was made). Director David Lynch had so much trouble securing funds that the film had to be made over a 6 year period, whenever Lynch could afford to shoot scenes.
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Cinematography (from Greek: kinesis (movement) and grapho (to record)), is the discipline of making lighting and camera choices when recording photographic images for the cinema.
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film director is a person who directs the making of a film.[1] A film director visualizes the script, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision.
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Budget (from french bougette) generally refers to a list of all planned expenses and revenues. A budget is an important concept in microeconomics, which uses a budget line to illustrate the trade-offs
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Comedy film is genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor. It is one of the oldest genres in film, as some of the very first silent movies were comedies. Comedy, unlike other film genres, puts much more focus on individual stars, with many former stand-up comics
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Action films are a film genre where action sequences, such as fighting, stunts, car chases or explosions, take precedence over elements like characterization or complex plotting.
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Deep Throat is an American pornographic movie released in the summer of 1972, written and directed by Gerard Damiano (listed in the credits as "Jerry Gerard") and starring Linda Lovelace (the pseudonym of Linda Susan Boreman).
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Deep Throat is an American pornographic movie released in the summer of 1972, written and directed by Gerard Damiano (listed in the credits as "Jerry Gerard") and starring Linda Lovelace (the pseudonym of Linda Susan Boreman).
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Clerks is a 1994 film written and directed by Kevin Smith (who also appears in the film in a minor role).
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Clerks is a 1994 film written and directed by Kevin Smith (who also appears in the film in a minor role).
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El Mariachi is a 1992 motion picture production directed by Robert Rodriguez as the first chapter in his Mariachi Trilogy.
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El Mariachi is a 1992 motion picture production directed by Robert Rodriguez as the first chapter in his Mariachi Trilogy.
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Robert Anthony Rodriguez (born June 20, 1968 in San Antonio, Texas) is a Mexican-American writer, producer, musician, and film director who is known for making profitable, crowd-pleasing independent and studio films with fairly low budgets and fast schedules by Hollywood standards.
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A cult film is a film that has acquired a highly devoted but relatively small group of fans. Often, cult movies have failed to achieve fame outside of this small group; however there have been many exceptions.
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Eraserhead (released in France as The Labyrinth Man) is a 1977 surrealist-horror film written and directed by David Lynch. The film stars Jack Nance and Charlotte Stewart.
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Eraserhead (released in France as The Labyrinth Man) is a 1977 surrealist-horror film written and directed by David Lynch. The film stars Jack Nance and Charlotte Stewart.
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Inflation is measured as the growth of the money supply in an economy, without a commensurate increase in the supply of goods and services. This results in a rise in the general price level as measured against a standard level of purchasing power.
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David Lynch
David Lynch at Cannes Film Festival in 2001.
Birth name David Keith Lynch
Born January 20 1946
Missoula, Montana, U.S.
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David Lynch at Cannes Film Festival in 2001.
Birth name David Keith Lynch
Born January 20 1946
Missoula, Montana, U.S.
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B movie originally referred to a motion picture made on a low or modest budget and intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature during the so-called Golden Age of Hollywood. Although the U.S.
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Experimental film, or "experimental cinema," is a term that describes a range of filmmaking styles that are generally quite different from, and often opposed to, the practices of mainstream commercial and documentary filmmaking.
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Video art is a type of art which relies on moving pictures and is comprised of video and/or audio data. (It should not however be confused with television or experimental cinema).
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