I’ve always wondered this, because any answer seems insane to me.
After a long day of filming a movie, where is the footage stored? Is it just on some computer? And then when everything has been filmed, edited, etc. is the whole finished movie just on some single hard drive?? I’m sure they have it in multiple places, but it seems crazy that all of the footage of a marvel movie or something similar has to be saved somewhere so simple. In short, I guess I’m asking where movies exist in their final form before they’re available to the public.
And as a secondary question, how is the finished film distributed? How does it go from being a finished project to being in movie theaters? Does the theater receive some sort of electronic “file” that then is stored on a computer system within the theater? It seems like the process would have to be more complex than a fancy email, but I have no idea.
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>And as a secondary question, how is the finished film distributed? How does it go from being a finished project to being in movie theaters? Does the theater receive some sort of electronic “file” that then is stored on a computer system within the theater? It seems like the process would have to be more complex than a fancy email, but I have no idea.
This one is easier. Traditional movie theater films are distributed to the theaters either with a secure physical harddrive they get in the mail, or sent to them digitally, generally via a fiber connection. Both systems are in use. If a movie is on actual film, its generally delivered by a delivery company, actual film can be really expensive to make and transport though, and is increasingly rare, even for movies shot on film (they are generally just converted to digital)
Film festivals and such are a bit more lenient and often give film makers the option to just like upload a copy of the film or commonly, just ask to be sent a private link to the film on Vimeo.
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