ABSTRACT
Chapter 5 focusses in on a set of interrelated material devices used within the internal risk management structure of a film. It examines the layering of such project-specific infrastructure (for instance: budgets, sales estimates, tax credits, finance plans and recoupment charts) that works alongside industrial strategies such as counterparty analysis, reliance on partner networks, and arrangements dealing with the scale, timing and windows of distribution. This film assemblage work involves repeated evaluations that build on prior assessments of viability relative to external concerns – the current market, existing film canon and other projects in development. The chapter’s examination of a set of interrelated devices thereby shows how risk is continually revisited and forms part of how the creative entity is constructed – through an interlinking and sedimentation of its risk expression over time, from revenue forecast ultimates onwards.
