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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For animated movies, it takes many, many, many months to render it for release. The computational complexity of it is astounding.
I would say depends on what kind of movies? LOTR certainly look like it takes longer than say big bang theory or friends where it takes place usually in the cafe or living room?
Good example is the movie “Interstellar”
The scene where we can see the black hole took about 100 hours to render each _frame_ in the physics and wfx engine. Meaning that every single second of that scene took about 100 days to render the final copy.
A lot goes to the cgi and rendering but also changing the locations where they shoot the film. Not only the time it takes to travel to places but also to set up the equipment and putting it down after the shooting.
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.
This is a very VERY broad generalization of something far more complicated than just movies and TV.
It has far more to do with who, what, when, and where than it does TV or movies.
Production value is the greatest factor for production time. Lots of places, effects, high-tier actors will mean longer production times for both TV and Films.
Likewise, with a much simpler production, TV and Film can be done quite quickly.
Having worked on both tv shows and movies I can say this. In TV they are producing content that goes between commercials on a schedule. Its a much more hierarchical culture in Tv than in film and there is very much a “Time is money” imperative, and they have to shoot the equivalent of half a movie every 8 working days(at least the 1hr episodics I worked on did). Generally you do 3 takes from each set up and move on. Also, locations are usually picked to be close to the studio so the logistics of travel and company moves is simplified. In film you have a set budget and there is a deadline but its months if not years down the road. Commercials are not the mode of income, its hard earned money from people paying to see your movie. They have a quality imperative when shooting, and when working with people who are given a lot of control of the vision and money, like Scorsese, you can afford to do takes until its what you see in your mind.
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