Marcus Markou came out our school to give us an insight of what it was like making an independent film by himself using the money he borrowed from his own co-owned internet company with his brother.
Some things he told us that i didn't know of:
- He was rejected by all the British distributors in UK, and his only options were to "sell" his film for free to a distributor or to distribute it himself. And that was why Double M films was created; for Marcus Markou to distribute his independent film.
- His main target was mainly families and greeks since the film is based on a greek family, therefore they have something relate to. The family genre can be related to by all audiences, hence that's why it was so popular among families.
- When he marketing his film, he found areas where the greek culture was densely populated. For example, where Greek churches are is where most greek people live around. Then he would approach them, promoting his film and giving out the facebook, twitter and youtube account.
- When he was trying to recruit cast members, he would try to personally get in contact with the actor. Like Marcus personally rang Georges Corraface to recruit him, whereas it was hard for Marcus to recruit Stephen Dillane since Marcus had to get through his agent first.
- In the end, when Frank Dillane was hired to be an actor, Stephan Dillane decided he wanted to act with his son, hence the true father and son relationship shown in the film.
- Since this was an independent film, he had to save as much money as possible, so he hired a line producer to sort out the finances and since Sara Butler was doing such a good job, he decided to just promote her to producer since it would save him much more money as well as keeping the job done.
- 100 people were part of the crew of the set. Most of the money that is used to pay the cast and crew is mainly to the main characters and the other members of the crew have a set amount of money that is given to them.
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