Financial Constraints

What is the term constraints ?                                             A constraint is something that limits or controls what you can do. Their decision to abandon the trip was made because of financial constraints. Water shortages in the area will be the main constraint on development 

Here is a list of different areas that would contribute to the financial constraints of a project 

Staffing 

Premises 

Location 

Legal cost 

Transport 

Resources 

Time constraints                                                               Is a term that defines various factors that limit projects in terms of time . This includes deadlines workload management and resources allocated Including 

Final deadlines 

Interim deadlines ( project often built backwards from this ) 

Availability of people 

Availability of equipment 

Days/hours that people can work 

Relying on volunteers 

Holiday/seasonal issues

 

Personnel                                                                          Is a term people employed in an organisation or engaged in an organisation undertaking such as military service which includes 

Skills 

Number of people 

Experience of your personnel 

Audit of knowledge 

Some may need to be provided with training 

Home learning Guardian Article 

hollywood and TV put the squeeze on uk's  low budget film-makers 

small productions struggle to hit the big screen due to fashion for mega - budget TV dramas and risk averse us studios focusing on superhero blockbusters 

a combination of an increasingly risk averse hollywood movie system addicted to blockbuster franchises and the global explosion in mega budget tv dramas is putting the squeeze on smaller films . cannes prize are among the few lower cost productions that are guaranteed a berth in the modern cinema market 

the uk is a sombre case study for the mid to low budget film industry . the number of domestic uk films costing from £500,000 to about 30M to make such as T2 transpotting and florence foster jenkins , fell from 77 to 60 between 2014 and 2015 this is the lowest number made since 2006 acording to annual figures posted by the british film insitute BFI . the number of small to mid sized budget co production , funded by mostly European producers , such as the oscar wining the lobster, and i daniel blake fell from 37 to 30 a level not seen since 2008

at the other end of the scale hollywood blockbuster made in the uk such as star wars the last jedi and alien covenant , which accounts for the lion share of the 1.6 bn  feature film market , remains rocksteady , with just under 20 films produced in 2015 }after the last financial crisis money dried up and the major hollyewood studios ended up cutting loads of their production slates and increased budgets pretty much for franchises and superheros states david hancock } a film analyst at ihs market , theory of everything films with budgets of that sort of range , are quite often the first to get the squeeze . He cites the mechanics of the 11bn {£8.5bn} us box office as a perfect examples of the difficulties facing film makers who lack big budgets films from the major studios take more than 90% of that he says that leaves about 650 films in the us chasing 9% of the box office 

aswell changing the focus of the film industry pressure is being ramped up by the boom in big budget tv shows such as neflixs £100 milion co production of the crown 

in the us the number of scripted shows being made annually has more than doubled since 2010 to be more than 500 this year netflix recently revealed it has 90 original productions underway in europe alone , sky has 80 and traditional broadcasters such as itv and the bbc have upper in their game with huge hit such as line of duty and broadchurch  

there is not a lot of differences between high end tv and many films these days says Richard Johnson chief executive of endermol shine uk maker of forthcoming dramas including troy and skys tin star , mostv tv dramas are a minimum of 1m an episode and the quality and the experience is very high . And the way the market has changed means that is where a lot of money and funding is now . the BFI says the figure for inward product investment in TV mostly from us companies such as amazon , netflix and hbo nearly doubled from £252m in 2013 to a record of almost £500 million last year. This boost has been in part fuelled by a film industry style tax break for glossy shows costing at least 1mill an episode to make which was introduced in 2013 by contrast , the spend on uk domestic films dropped to £198m in 2015 , the lowest level since 2007 . 

the lure pot of money , and the overlap of skills related to glossy drama has drawn many of the uks well known film production companies to expand into there sector .