Forum: Animation


Subject: Hypothetical Question

RealDeal opened this issue on Oct 01, 2002 ยท 11 posts


vectortv posted Fri, 04 October 2002 at 5:21 PM

How do you expect to generate a revenue - when you (in a sense) are paying for the broadcast time. You would have to have a product to sell, as in the infomercial approach where they also pay for their airtime. The alternative way (and more appropriate to animation) is toy product. In the eighties it was all the rage with the saturday morning cartoons - production budgets came from the toy companies, and they paid the networks to broadcast their content - because they knew in turn that it would sell toys. So the question comes down to - just how are you proposing to generate revenue. The other (somewhat weaker option) is thinking that this method of distribution will get you a word of mouth reaction where someone may hire you for a job. If that is the target I would sincerely say avoid doing the broadcast angle, find another means of distribution.