Budget

The budget for our opening sequence was relatively low and had this have been a feature film would have been considered a micro-budget. The only cost came in buying materials to make the fake blood; costumes and props had already been accounted for, including filming equipment.

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Lyle's 454g Maple Syrup x2 = £2.30
Red Food Colouring 38ml x1 = £1.00
Blue Food Colouring 38ml x1 = £1.00
Yellow Food Colouring 38ml x1 = £1.00
Corn Flour 500g = £1.20

Additional Items

Masks x5 = £10
Plastic Sheeting x2 = £12

Total: £28.50

If this were to be a fully financed feature film then it is hugely likely that the budget would be much greater. Paid actors, higher end recording equipment, would all be factors in adding up to a much larger budget.

Firstly in our opening sequence there is a scene where blood is chucked against a wall. The end result is  a great, slow-motion image of the blood being splattered around on the wall, however due to the equipment we had available to us we were not able to film a completely smooth image. In the final edit of the film the scene suffers from frame rate drop, causing it to look slightly jittery and jumpy, but this is  not such a major error that required it to be removed. It is for this reason why a high speed camera would be used in order to film the sequence, had this have been a feature film with a production companies backing. The scene would need to be filmed at around 60-120-fps in order to achieve a smooth slow-motion sequence.

Pictured below is a Sony PMW-350K XDCAM Camcorder. This camera costs £11799.95 which is approximately 414x more expensive than the total budget we spent on the actual production of our film. Seeing as this would be a 'low budget' production it is unlikely that the budget would be that of Iron Man 3 or Star Trek, both of which support $140-$200million budgets. A more likely budget would be perhaps around the $10-20million mark, but that would be if we were sponsored by an american production company otherwise we would have more of a British independent budget of around £400,000-£1million. Additionally it is unlikely that we would have an A-list star as part of the cast and would instead have unknown or lesser known actors. This means the budget would stay low and affordable.