Saturday, July 24, 2010

Movies, Management and Me

Hi! Its been long time I made a post here. In this gap I have moulded myself into a scriptwriter and a shortfilm director. Worked with some brains which have mastered in the movie making business enjoyed watching the editing rooms dubbing theaters and several other places where actually a reel turns into a movie(including shooting spots).

Besides I'm continuing my management education. People have started asking me a questions saying "What's the relevance between movie making and management. And why don't you shift to movie making when you like it much."
I hope that this post will be an answer to all those questions.

For me making movies or watching them is just a hobby but its life to many. But both these streams are having an inter relation to a larger extent. A movie includes all the genres of management studies like human resources, financial management, production, marketing management and operations. It is always taught that management is applying mere commonsense and is not a rocket science as it is the study of the principles developed by the people who are not well educated but who have mastered the management science by running the businesses profitably and effective.

Coming to the point I wanna brief you on how the above mentioned fields are related to movie making. If procuring inventory and effective utilisation of resources then movie is no different as it deals in procuring all the inventory like generators labor and etc to carry out the shooting activity perfectly. Movies deals with capital and procuring funds and utilising them. Human resources is the key element in the movie making as it deals with creative heads working to make a thought into a movie. If these intellectual's creativity is not used properly then the movie will end in disaster if an actor fails to perform well then the audience will not enjoy the drama that is created around them in the theaters or before screens so they need to perform well and the person who needs to control every activity like actors, cameramen, editing department and production department is the director of the movie. I feel a director is one of the best HR's of the world. The next function is marketing whatever the movie is whether it is the worst one, a disaster or an extraordinary fiction a trailer is one of the popular marketing technique that attracts the audience in coming to the cinema hall.

Out of all movie is one of the most profitable businesses in the world which crosses the breakeven point before its release by selling rights to distributors. The margin of safety will be reached withing few hours of the movie release. So, I feel that movie being the business is the master of all the studies that are taught in the harvard or LSB.