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10 years, 1 month ago - Paddy Robinson-Griffin

Hiya,

Building a studio isn't necessarily correlated with a booming movie industry! Look at the wider context and you see no lack of studio space in the country, so it's not a capacity-led thing.

Yorkshire is cheaper than London for just about everything, so hopes to lure projects away much as several other new provincial studios have tried to do. The BBC has moved much of their stuff to Salford, so this is probably hoping to pick up some of their halo effect work, or if they have a big production coming through.

Someone obviously has a massive tranche of investment for this, which means hedging for other uses too, it can probably be resold as a warehouse. In fact I'd wager that it's going to be a hangar conversion, seeing as the only thing in Church Fenton is an RAF base. Land is cheap up there compared with London and the South, but then it doesn't have the infrastructure as close.

I hope it works out for them, but the work is likely to be poached from other studios rather than generating significant new production in itself. Yes Yorkshire has one of the more active film commissions, but that doesn't mean much for most productions and is certainly no guarantee for enthusiastic first-time directors trying to make shorts as that's not their purpose - they are trying to lure big productions where locals may actually be employed.

10 years, 1 month ago - Dan Smith

Well I suppose it gives Esholt a break - I suppose the bacon buttie van will have to try elsewhere.

10 years, 1 month ago - Alève Mine

Same here. Let me know if you get any leads on that.

10 years, 1 month ago - Alève Mine

Thanks Dan, I'll look into that.

10 years, 1 month ago - Lee 'Wozy' Warren

I'd be interested to hear what Zurich or Switzerland in general has in terms of film infrastructure and crews etc that would pull production companies there - other than the stunning views of course?

10 years, 1 month ago - Dan Selakovich

Hi Aleve,

Check out "Slated". It is only a cursory model to what you've posted about, but it's along the same lines, and pretty exciting. I think there are very few that could take advantage of this on shootingpeople, but you're one of them that could, I think.

I've been looking into Slated over the last week. I really think you should check them out for your stuff. They do analytics and investment. I know, not so arty. But people shun the business of film at their peril.

What they do is pretty vast and hard to explain, but you can check them out here: https://www.slated.com but basically, you are side stepping the studio system by using the studio system, or what the studio system thinks they know. It's kind of brilliant.

And their youtube channel has tons of videos on what they do. Here's their intro video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJDace2LSS0

If nothing else, they have lots of videos on the business side of filmmaking.

To be clear, I'm not promoting them. I don't know enough yet. I do like their investment scheme though. I just wish the minimum film investment was lower (10k dollar minimum investment). I think it should be more like a crowd funding campaign, but with a possibility of making a profit. Anyway, check it out and let me know what you think. For me, it seems a real way into real film investment for a film you want to make, instead of scratching at lottery money or no-budget crowd funding.