Following comments made by Robert Jones on Netribution earlier this year, a panel at Edinburgh Film Festival this week grabbed headlines after it called for British budgets to come down.
The debate was kicked off by Danny Boyle's latest two films, Strumpet and Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise, both shot for television on low-cost DV, and signalling a move back to basics for the director of The Beach. At a panel on low budget production later that d "A lot of what goes on in UK production is driven at times by the illusion that we are up there with the US," said Owen Thomas of Elemental Films. 'It's increasingly apparent that our £4m budget in the UK is not £4m because that money needs to be spent but because they're often packed with wastage.'
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The debate was kicked off by Danny Boyle's latest two films, Strumpet and Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise, both shot for television on low-cost DV, and signalling a move back to basics for the director of The Beach. At a panel on low budget production later that d "A lot of what goes on in UK production is driven at times by the illusion that we are up there with the US," said Owen Thomas of Elemental Films. 'It's increasingly apparent that our £4m budget in the UK is not £4m because that money needs to be spent but because they're often packed with wastage.'