What is the total sound budgets in American movies?
Eric Nelson:
I am wondering what the (total) sound budgets are on American movies?
Randy Thom:
You didn't make clear whether you were including music in "sound (postproduction)
on an average budget Hollywood film." If you include the cost of music,
then the sound budget for a "typical Hollywood film" is in the ballpark
of 5% of the cost of the film (excluding publicity). Without music it's
less than half that. Obviously, there is enormous variation, but I think
the 5% figure isn't too far off as an average.
Eric Nelson:
Gee, that isn't much. I'd say in Norway it's 0.5% music; 0.5% dialogue,
ADR, Foley, SFX; and 0.5% mix. If you're really lucky 0.5% trailer
(including picture editing). Usually there's no extra money for the trailer/publicity,
and the trailer is done from the budget of the film. And of course there
isn't any money left at the end of the project.
Hans Gilbert:
Wow, how can you expect people to take sound seriously if they only
spend a few percent of the film budget on the other 50% of the movie; sound...
| - "Hi mister producer I'd like to use
sound in storytelling".
- "Oh that's no problem my son, we'll
give the composer an enormous sum of money, and what about minimum wage
for you?"
Hans Gilbert
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