Why do ~2 hour movies take 2-3 years to make, while an 6+ hour TV season can be made in 1 year?
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I am not sure what you mean by “made”.
If you are talking about the actual film production, then movies are “made” in about 3 months, which is a pretty standard shooting schedule. TV-series is more effective, but let’s say 10, one hour episodes has probably a shooting schedule of 6-9 months. In terms of pages, I think a movie will probably shoot 1-2 pages a day. And TV-series might film 5-10 pages from the screenplay.
IF you talk about the entire process from getting an idea, and the movie/TV-series is being watched. Then it is a lot more complicated. I think EU has estimated that a movie is approximately 5 years from start to finish. I am not sure about TV-series, but would depend heavily on the source material.
But TV-series being more effective, I would say is down to budgeting and somewhat to artistic consideration. At least if you think about more independent movie-making and original written movies. It might be easier getting funding for a TV-series, rather than a stand-alone random movie.
Not to say that TV can’t be an artistic endeavor, but it would be extremely expensive to have very artistic approach to making a TV-series, not to mention the time constraints.
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