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A Low-Budget-Film [ loʊ ˌbʌdʒɪtfɪlm ] (German Film with a low budget ) is a film production that only has a low budget and is usually produced outside the established studio system. The Low-Budget-Film was mostly shown in the classic Hollywood in the double feature as a B-film with elaborate major productions (A-film). From the late 1940s, independent companies such as American International Pictures (AIP) specialized in the production of The Low-Budget movie . In order to save costs, used backdrops were often used and a close period for the shooting was chosen. [first] The use of a few means of production can also be assigned to the low-budget principle, the film genera of the avant-garde, independent and exploitation film. The US Screen Actors Guild (SAG) created a classification for low-budget productions in 1996 based on budget statistics in order to derive guidelines for the remuneration of actors. The budget span of the five categories created ranges from less than 75,000 ( Experimental Film Agreement ) up to $ two million. [2] In contrast to the no-budget film Low-Budget-Film geared towards profit. [3] [4]

For the opposite – filmed (and therefore usually dependent on significantly higher income) – the term is sometimes the term Big-Budget-Film used. [5] [6]

Regardless of the industrially manufactured The Low-Budget movie From Hollywood, low-budget aesthetics is also the subject of the avant-garde, experimental and underground film. The low production effort and the resulting circumstances result in small personal films that sometimes do not correspond to the viewing habits. The New American Cinema and the Nouvelle Vague left the term Low Budget become the epitome for artistic cinema far from the mainstream. Low Budget Also stands for the films of exploitation cinema, which pursue the principle of the low -cost repetition and the excess of the excess of commercially successful ideas. The film Sweet Sweetbacks Lied ( Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song , 1971) by Melvin van Peebles was initial spark for the genre of blaxploitation, and on the other hand a representative of the New Black Cinemas. Both the artistic and the commercial Low-Budget-Film found in the general concept of independent film in the 1970s and 1980s. [first] German filmmakers like Rainer Werner Fassbinder ( Four seasons dealers , 1971) and Rosa von Praunheim ( The bed sausage , 1971) Low-Budget films And produced an aesthetics that was symbolic of the new German film.

In the 1980s and 1990s, directors of the independent film like Kevin Smith ( Clerks , 1994) and Jim Jarmusch ( Constant vacation , 1982; Stranger than Paradise , 1984) through successes at low-budget film festivals. Her first director’s projects were not only groundbreaking for the Low-Budget-Film , but also an image of their own pop worlds, which appeared more realistic than the efforts of the major productions. [first] In the 1990s, however, the Low-Budget-Film behind the mainstream, which is increasingly differentiated. They were small films that still caused a sensation. For example Mariachi (1992), with a budget of $ 7,000 [7] The Sundance Film Festival won or the Russian production The brother (1997), which only cost $ 10,000 and was awarded the Chicago International Film Festival. The surprising success of Blair Witch Project (1999) left the Low-Budget-Film finally become a mass phenomenon. With a budget of $ 22,000 [8] Independently produced horror film was used with blurred, pseudodocumentary settings and through efficient internet marketing for event movie [first] And achieved sales of over $ 248 million. [9]

Die Renaissance of Low-Budget-Films was made possible by the dogma movement in Denmark initiated by Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg, whose films arrived in numerous festivals. Digital cameras allowed cost-effective producing and commitment to well-known actors such as Jean-Marc Barr or Asia Argento. Dogma co-founder Søren Kragh-Jacobsen ( Mifune’s last song , 1998) compared the cinematic abstinence of the manifesto with the Renaissance of Unplugged-Songs . This analogy between Dogma 95 and the acoustic concerts of the music station MTV also describes the resolving boundaries between Low Budget and Mainstream . [first]

In countries with a lower standard of living, low-budget films are standard. The action film Who Killed Captain Alex , which was shot in Uganda in 2010, was realized with the equivalent of $ 200 budget, but earned around $ 1500 profit. [ten]

  1. ↑ a b c d It is Andreas Rauscher: Low Budget . In: Thomas Koebner (ed.): Sachlexicon of the film . 2nd Edition. Reclam, 2006, ISBN 978-3-15-010625-9, S. 407 f .
  2. ↑ Ludger Kaczmarek: Low-Budget production. In: Hans. J. Wulff, Theo Bender (ed.): Lexicon of the film handles.
  3. ↑ A. Robinson: Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye: The Biography of a Master Film-Maker. I. B. Tauris, 2003, ISBN 1-86064-965-3, S. 77.
  4. ↑ Tom an: Digital video. Equipment, techniques, projects, post -processing . Dorling kindersley, 2005, ISBN 3-8310-0765-9.
  5. ↑ Big-Budget-Film @first @2 Template: Toter Link/En.oxforddictionaries.com ( Page no longer available, search in Webarchiven ) Info: The link was automatically marked as a defect. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this note. Entry in the Oxford online dictionary. Definition: Involving the expenditure of a large amount of money. Example sentence: ‘the book was made into a big-budget Hollywood film’ . Accessed on May 1, 2018.
  6. ↑ Jessica Lane: Ava DuVernay Lands ANOTHER Big Budget Film, ‘The New Gods’ . In: TV One. March 16, 2018. accessed on May 1, 2018.
  7. ↑ Peter Broderick: The Filmmaker Articles . In: Filmmaker Magazine. Winter 1992. (English)
  8. ↑ The budget later rose to $ 500,000 to $ 750,000; see. ´The Blair Witch Project´ 10 years later. In: Entertainment Weekly. July 9, 2009.
  9. ↑ The Blair Witch Project. In: Box Office Mojo. Retrieved on February 13, 2010.
  10. ↑ A Ugandan Filmmaker’s Quest to Conquer the Planet with Low-Budget Action Movies. In: Vice.com