Why do movies take longer to film than series episodes that are the same length in time? (Both the movie and individual episodes are about an hour long)
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Most movies now are not about an hour long. If it’s not a kid’s movie it’ll be at least 90 minutes, probably closer to 2 hours, sometimes closer to 3.
In general, TV shows have smaller budgets, smaller casts, fewer locations, etc. All that stuff is specifically because they know they need to film a whole series. And they’ll most likely be using the same locations over and over. A film might go to a specific location just for one scene, a TV show probably won’t. Even a big budget production like Game of Thrones used the same sets repeatedly for every season.
Every film production records way more than what actually ends up on screen. The runtime isn’t what decides how long or expensive it is to make. If you didn’t care about the quality you could make a 3 hour film in a day.
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