John Brawley wrote:
Means that almost anyone now gets to "tell their story" because the cost of entry is so low....
I'm just not sure "the audience" cares to see everyone's story....
JB
That is a good point JB. Indie films are so saturated in the market but there are good ones made and there are audiences watching them. Also, although many thinks of indie as zero to low budget films and there are many making them due to the low cost of entry, there are indie films that have budget, not Hollywood level budgets, but it still is in the mid/high 5 and mid six figure budgets. I've been involved in a number of indie films for US and Euro production companies over the years and I will say that most, if not all (since some of them I'm not privilege to the accounting) of them have a decent budget for cast, crew, rentals, legal, production design, and post. However, they are more aggressive in their production and genres are limited and sometimes very specific.
Just to add, gears are usually rented. Cameras we've used range from Blackmagic (~15%), Red (~50%), Canon C200/300 (~15%), Sony F series and A7S (10%), and on bigger budgets Arri Alexa (~8%) and others (DJI Drone cams, DSLR - 5D, GH5, FujiFilm XT, etc) makes for the rest of the percentage (~2%).
Capture usually is in 4K DCI, 4.6K, and a very few 6K but delivery is mostly 2K DCI and some HD (1080p). I still have to be involved in an indie project that captured > 6K and was delivered in 4K or anything greater than that.