Here’s how you can jump ahead of the curve when partnering with a brand on your project.
It’s the best time ever to be a filmmaker. This is true for many reasons, and while the ability to have a brand come on to your production may not seem like one of the most liberating reasons, it can sure as hell help you put together a project.
Why? Brands can barely get eyeballs on TV ads. And you can’t fool anyone with an ad disguised as an online video anymore. To combat this, companies are now giving filmmakers creative control over projects they have commissioned. If a company has a core idea for something they want to advertise, they oftentimes give the director license to explore options as to how to execute.
As Rupert Maconick explained in a panel at SXSW 2017 called The New Hollywood: Branding a Funded Film, “Netflix came along, and no one’s watching the ads. So what are brands going to do? They create lots of opportunities. It’s those roughly 600 million dollars spent monthly around the world, just [funneled] into more entertaining stuff.”
The panel also featured Jody Raida, Director of Branded Entertainment at McGarryBowen, Martin Campbell, director of Casino Royale, and Tom Garzili of Brand USA. Below, we answer some key questions as to how the partnership between brand and filmmaker goes down.
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