Sources of funding lesson plan

1. BIG PICTURE
LA A – Understanding Pre
Production – First task on
sources of funding
KEYWORDS
Funding – Budgets – Corporate
– Independent – Crowdfunding -
Franchising
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Evaluate the extent to
which pre-production requirements, processes
and documentation contributes to the success
of planning and delivering a specific digital
media product.
SUCCESS CRITERIA
Completed notes on different
sources of funding
Take your seat. Bag under your desk.
Have your equipment and planner out.
Topic – Unit 4 – Pre Production
• What could you do to organize funding for a new feature film?
• What would change in your plans if your budget was
• £10,000
• £250,000
• £100 million

2. TELL ME
STUFF!
TAKE ME
THROUGH
IT…
LET ME
HAVE A
GO…
DO I GET
IT?
1 2 3 4 5 6
SETTING THE
SCENE
JOINING UP
LEARNING
LINKS TO LAST
TIME
PASSING ON
KNOWLEDGE
GUIDED PRACTICE
& MODELLING
INDEPENDENT
PRACTICE –
APPLYING THE
SKILLS TO NEW
SITUATIONS
ASSESSMENT &
FEEDBACK
PULL IT TOGETHER
JOINING UP
LEARNING
LINKS TO NEXT
TIME

3. 1. This is a coursework unit – marked by us, and moderated by the exam board
2. Half of it – Learning Aims B and C – is covered by your pre-production work in
Unit 10 – Fictional Film Production
3. Learning Aim A is about understanding pre-production processes. Learning Aim
D is about evaluating your pre-production from Learning Aims B and C
• Learning Aim A – Understanding Pre Production
Processes – is a long task built around research
and writing
• You have to cover all of the points set out here, in
good detail, with examples
• I can point you at some examples but you can
choose others you know
• The Distinction mark will come from
• Clearing showing your understanding
• Analysing specific well chosen examples
• Evaluating how these pre-production
processes ensured the successful production
of the film
1. Sources of funding
2. Budgeting and allocating spending
3. Logistics and requirements (job roles)
4. Documentation
5. Codes of practice and regulations
6. The BBFC
7. Other regulators
8. BECTU
9. Evaluation

4. Part 1 of this is on sources of funding – where does the money
come from for people to make films?
1. Corporate – existing companies have built up
financial capital from successfully making films
and use their funds to make more. They can also
borrow money cheaply, or can attract other
investors
2. Public – smaller scale film production in the UK is
often supported with public subsidies – from
government, or government agencies, or the
Lottery
3. Independent – some people make films by
raising money from private individuals (including,
these days…)
4. …Crowdfunding
5. Sponsorship and Product Placement – both
from headline sponsors and from product
placement in all sorts of ways
6. Franchising, Licensing and Merchandise – tie-ins
with fast food and so on

5. You need to research and write up examples for all of
these five headings.
And remember that virtually all mainstream films will combine different
sources of funding – Corporate and Franchising and Merchandise and Product
Placement in Hollywood. Corporate funding, independent funding
1. Corporate – choose a big budget
Hollywood movie as an example
2. Public funding – choose a UK film
3. Independent – there are some
examples in the PowerPoint for you
to investigate
4. Crowdfunding – again, examples on
the blog, or search for
‘Crowdfunded Movies’
5. Sponsorship and Product
placement – examples of Product
Placement from all over the place
– Headline sponsorship more
common on TV.
6. Franchising and Merchandising –
especially for sci-fi/fantasy or
films aimed at children

6. We will visit the Distinction criteria - Evaluate the extent to which
pre-production requirements, processes and documentation
contributes to the success of planning and delivering a specific
digital media product – at every stage
1. Read and comment on another
students work
1. Have they explained what each
kind of funding is and what it
means?
2. Have they given at least one
example of a film made with
each kind of funding?
3. Have they explained why that
kind of funding was used for that
film?
Evaluating for Distinction
1. Make the link between sourcing funding and
having a budget setting out what you’re going
to spend. There’s no point in trying to raise
money to make a film if you don’t have an
accurate idea of how much you need to raise.
2. Sometimes this bit is easy – explain how it
would be impossible to make your film if you
hadn’t raised funding.
3. More complicated – make a link between
budgets, raising funds and expected profits –
how can you convince investors that they will
get their money back – this ties in with all of
the rest of pre-production. Everything is
connected to everything else.

7. BIG PICTURE MY LEARNING
How did this
lesson fit into
your other
lessons?
What is my top
take- away from
the lesson?
Have you contributed to the lesson? Will you be able to improve
next lesson? Do you know what you need to go away and do?
o Have you kept up?
o Have you explained why the
examples you have chosen are
good examples of that type of
funding?
o Have you evaluated why
organising the right funding in
the right way is so important?