Film and Television Finance

Film and Television Finance Reading List

As I reiterate below, of its nature this course does not lend itself to book reading lists. Thus in addition to the material outlined below I would recommend that students consider direct interviews with industry personnel if they are unable to find the answers they’re looking for in publications. Do ask me before you do so, however, on the off-chance I have access to material

Irish Related Material

Financial Incentives for Film-making in Ireland – Film Board

North American Distribution of Irish and Low Budget European Films – Film Board

Independent Television Production Sector - Report Film Makers Ireland:

The Bigger Picture - Film Makers Ireland/David McWilliams

Issues in Irish Broadcasting Policy - DKM/Association of Advertisers in Ireland -

The Economics of the Arts in Ireland - by Joe Durkan for the Arts Council 1994

Report on the Audiovisual Production Industry in Ireland - Coopers and Lybrand 1992.

Special working group on the Film Production Industry: Report to the Taoiseach 24/12/93.

IBEC Economic Database on the Irish Film Industry 1993 - 1997

Ireland's Audiovisual (Film & Television) Facilities Infrastructure -The Present Infrastructure and Future Needs - prepared by Film Makers Ireland

Training Needs to the Year 2000 - FAS

Report of the Enquiry into the Supply and Distribution of Cinema Films - Restrictive Practices Commission 1977. (Only for those interested in exhibition and distribution in Ireland)

Keeping up to date in this area is virtually impossible via books or even reports because of ongoing change. If you really want to keep your material fresh I would recommend two avenues: sticking key words ("Section 481" etc.) into the Irish Times search engine on their website (www.irish-times.ie) or using the CD-ROM searches in the library. Film Ireland is also worth keeping an eye on. It’s also useful to spend some time trawling through Film Ireland back issues – you may well find an article that offers a detailed history of whatever area you’re looking at. If you want to go even further back, both Playback and the Irish Broadcasting Review were great in their day.

Other useful websites:

Irish Film and Television Net – (Highly Professional Home site for all things Irish and Filmic) - http://www.iftn.ie. Look in particular at their finance page: http://www.iftn.ie/finance/index.html

Filmboard - http://ireland.iol.ie/filmboard/

RTE – www.rte.ie

Media Desk Ireland - http://www.iftn.ie/mediadesk/index.htm

Other less immediately relevant but still interesting websites

Online site on low/no budget filmmaking, includes useful templates for budgeting a picture: http://www.cyberfilmschool.com/main.htm

General Stuff on Budget

Film and Video Budgets – Michael Wiese (There are two editions of this in the library – the 1984 one is fine in the abstract but the figures are more up to date in the 1995 version.)

Budgets and Markets – A study of the budgeting of European Film – Terry Iliot

Feature Films on a low budget – John Randall

Marketing

The film marketing handbook: a practical guide to strategies for – Annika Pham

The international market in film and television – Eli M. Noam (ed.)

Film and Video Marketing – Michael Wiese

Script Planning – positioning and developing scripts for film and television – Tony Zaza

‘Marketing’ – J. Wyatt, Sight and Sound, June 1998

Product Placement

"Hollywood meets Madison Avenue: the commercialisation of US Films" – Janet Wasko in both , Media, Culture and Society, Vol. 15, pp. 271-293 and Hollywood in the Information Age

"Jurassic Park and the GATT: Hollywood and Europe- An Update" - Janet Wasko - in Democracy and communication in New Europe, edited by Farrell Corcoran & Paschal Preston.

Journal of Advertising,

Advertising Age, following issues: Feb 22 1988, March 27 1989; May ?? 1990 (Article called ‘Coming Attractions: Movie Tie-ins’); March 16 1992, July 28 1997, Dec 8 1997

Screen International: March 11 1997; March 21 1997, August 1 1997, Dec ??? 1997 (No. 1137)

Finally for anyone interested, these are the websites of companies which specialise in product placement: http://www.propaganda-gem.com/ & http://www.vistagroupusa.com/serv02.htm.

Indeed just put the words "product placement" into a web search engine and you should get in the region of 4000 hits.

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