Private investors, production companies, and company owners provide capital investment in film and TV productions by contributing their own money in exchange for a percentage of returns or earnings. This allows productions to cover overall expenses over several years. People who invest capital may have agreements to recover their funds after release, including interest and ownership stakes. Financial aid in the forms of grants, scholarships, and loans can also fund production expenses and individual costs while working on a film. Development funds raise money for projects after pitches through loans or non-repayable grants from sources like crowdfunding campaigns.

1. Funding in the Film and TV
industry

2. In the Moodle dictionary, add your meaning
to the word you have been given
• Ownership
• Funding
• Licence Fee
• Subscription
• Pay per view
• Sponsorship
• Advertising
• Public Service
• Independent Companies
• Internet TV
• Broadcaster
• Private

3. Learning Aims:
• All of you will be able to explain the
different types of ownership and funding
in the TV industry.
• Most of you will be able to describe the
various types of ownership and funding.
• Some of you will be able to find
examples of companies and their
ownership and funding.

4. Private investors
• In the film industry private
investors often put
forward their own money
to pay for a production.
• Independent production
companies can also invest
in productions and put
forward money.

5. Private investors
• Other company owners may also
put forward money to pay for
productions they believe will work.
• Investors like this will often ask for
a percentage of the returns as part
of their investment.

6. Capital Investment
• Money invested in a film or TV
production with an expectation of
income, and recovered through
earnings generated by the film or TV
production company over several
years.
• It is generally understood to be used
for overall expenses rather than for
day-to-day operations (working
capital) or other expenses.

7. Capital Investment
• People who invest in this way may
have an agreement with a film
company by which they recover their
funds by a certain time (often after
the film has been released)
• This could also include interest,
shares in the production and
ownership over creative rights.

8. Financial Aid
• Financial aid is a way of
funding that is given in the
form of Grants, scholarships
and loans.
• This would pay for the
expenses and costs of a film
whilst it is being made.
• It could also be used to pay
for an individuals expenses
and costs incurred whilst
they are working on a film.

9. Development funds
• This is when money is
raised after a project
has been pitched.
• The money can be
given in the form of a
loan or grant (not
paid back).
• Film pitches,
Kickstarter and indie
go go are examples of
this.

10. In your PowerPoint Podcast explain in detail with examples
Ownership and Funding in the TV and Film
Industries:
Ownership & Funding
(we have already covered: public service,
commercial companies, Types of broadcaster,
private, corporate, independent companies,
global companies, license fee, subscription,
pay per view, sponsorship, advertising,
product placement)
Funding
(Covered today: Private investors, capital
investment, financial aid, development funds)

11. How have you met the aims?
• All of you will be able to explain the
different types of ownership and funding
in the TV industry.
• Most of you will be able to describe the
various types of ownership and funding.
• Some of you will be able to find
examples of companies and their
ownership and funding.