About a week ago, I was thrust beyond the walls of a Malone College classroom, and into the room of a Hollywood producer. I was part of a team that owned a production company, that was looking to find a cheap actor/actress, a good script, and stay under budget. Although my transformation was short-lived ( held within the 50 minute class period) I gained some very good expeirences with the simulation. It was a very beneficial exercise.
The Hollywood simulation was a class "experiment" that took place last Wednesday in my Mass Media in Society class. There were several different roles that my classmates and I had the chance to "play." There were 4 actors, 4 agents, 5 writing teams (consisting of 2 writers each,) and 3 different theatre groups of producers (consisiting of 3 to 4 members each.) I was part of a group of four, and we were handed a few sheets with a bunch of information on it, that we had to try and make sense of. On the sheet, were all the costs of making a movie. Things like special effects costs, average actor/actress costs, general shooting costs, location of shooting costs, and every other cost under the sun that one could imagine for makign a movie. The other sheet revealed the information that would shape how we, as a producing group, would go about making our movie happen.
The sheet revealed that we had a budget of 40 million dollars to follow. We were a little dissapointed, because we knew that we were the underdog theatre group with the lowest budget, but we still sat down to strategize. On the sheet of costs, there were also a few sections of predicted income. If we had a certain group of writers, we would get X amount of money gaurenteed from DVD sales, or X amount of money from overseas. There was one group, the sci-fi writers, that would provide us with a boost of $20,000 in our budget because of the money we KNEW we would make if we had them on our team. After about 5 minutes, our overseer said time was up, and deliberations would start.
The Hollywood simulation was a class "experiment" that took place last Wednesday in my Mass Media in Society class. There were several different roles that my classmates and I had the chance to "play." There were 4 actors, 4 agents, 5 writing teams (consisting of 2 writers each,) and 3 different theatre groups of producers (consisiting of 3 to 4 members each.) I was part of a group of four, and we were handed a few sheets with a bunch of information on it, that we had to try and make sense of. On the sheet, were all the costs of making a movie. Things like special effects costs, average actor/actress costs, general shooting costs, location of shooting costs, and every other cost under the sun that one could imagine for makign a movie. The other sheet revealed the information that would shape how we, as a producing group, would go about making our movie happen.
The sheet revealed that we had a budget of 40 million dollars to follow. We were a little dissapointed, because we knew that we were the underdog theatre group with the lowest budget, but we still sat down to strategize. On the sheet of costs, there were also a few sections of predicted income. If we had a certain group of writers, we would get X amount of money gaurenteed from DVD sales, or X amount of money from overseas. There was one group, the sci-fi writers, that would provide us with a boost of $20,000 in our budget because of the money we KNEW we would make if we had them on our team. After about 5 minutes, our overseer said time was up, and deliberations would start.
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