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Discussion with David Parfitt

I had a long discussion with David Parfitt about the What's the Story event and my interest in making contact with feature film productions on behalf of this project. David (the producer of Shakespeare in Love, Henry V) made a number of interesting comments about the viability of re-mixable films.

• He didn't understand the concept at first but thought it was interesting.
• Film producers are often in no position to re-use material after the event, once the film is sold for distribution. Offcuts and other material is sold, lost or thrown away without any thought of re-usability.
• If the idea is to work, producers need to be thinking about the issues at the start of production.
• He suggested contacting The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy production and provided a contact through Disney who are distributing it.

Follow-up with David this week.

Aim to have re-mixable service a budget line of Film Council funded projects. Hard to sell this idea in budget without it being a requirement.

distributors -> producers -> budget

Producers do not control extras (I Capture The Castle)

Talk to midscale producers - direct links into sales (e.g. DNA, Working Title)

Posted by .M. at January 30, 2004 09:01 AM