im not quite sure what to do with this information, but it makes you think
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4759134168640935807&q=world+on+fire&hl=en
A typical music video cost $150,000. look at where these costs go, and where they could go
Production Assistant in LA for 1 day: $200
100 Children in Ethiopia school fees for 1 term: $200
Office Phones: $480
10 equiped classrooms in Afghanistan: $480
Cost of make-up and hair for one day: $5,000
1 year schooling for 145 girls in Afghanistan: $5,000
Sound playback on set: $500
All nuts and bolts to hold 50 houses together in Bangladesh: $500
Filming Equiment on set: $1,150
5 Bicylce Ambulances in Nepal: $1,150
Meetings, tax, and union fees: $9,500
Film screenings in West Africa for education and escapism for 180,000 refugees: $9,500
2 hours of film stock: $10,200
6 wells built in 6 countries: $10,200
Production Supervisor: $3,500
Schooling and support for 70 children of war in Sierra Leone: $3,500
Catering for 1 day shoot in LA: $3,000
Meals for 10950 street children in Calcutta: $3,000
Studio Cost: $5,400
Independece for 100 Afghani widows: $5,400
Camera and Art Department costs: $15,000
machine to generate power for an entire rural community: $15,000
Electrian on set for 1 day: $2,625
1 hen, 1 miling cow, 2 bulls, 6 sheep for a village: $2,625
Styling costs: $15,000
1 mobile medical unit in India and treat 150,000 ppl in its lifetime: $15,000
1 editor: $2,500
schooling for 100 street kids in Tanzania: $2,500
all editing and post: $11,000
run a street children hospital for 1 year: $11,000
Directors fee with 2 Assistant Directors: $16,500
total cost of running a South African orphanage for 1 year: $16,500
Producer: $7,500
6 months of medicine for 5000 patients: $7,500
production company: $22,500
12 room clinic in Kibera, Kenya: $22,500
kinda makes you think a little
I'll Make You Think
By ccollier06 - Posted on November 22nd, 2006
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What amazing statistics. And so sad. America as a whole really wasts its money.
At this very moment, somewhere a committee is deciding your life, only you weren't invited
Nice entry. I may articulate my thoughts later.
Michael Allen Yarbrough (PBUH)
Imagine showing the mother who sells the oranges a typical music video and saying, "We could've paid for your son's and all his friends' education for the rest of their childhood, but look, we made this instead."
I wish more people knew what a difference they could make.
http://www.progressiveu.org/181343-who-are-you-yelling-at
this is like World Vision's 30 hour famine comparison ... on a wider scale. definitely thought-provoking. nice post.
Despite all these costs the media corporations - including the music industries - spend typically less for the crew, supplies, and equipment to rack in the big dollars. Considering the millionaire celebrities out there, under their contract for a handful of albums and consecutive sitcom shows, much of the conglomerate of media corporations takes up to 30%-40% of the profits of every "sale" and add it up to almost 500% of profits. Can you image? They don't even nearly spend as much as they should, for example, for good writers and producers who should get as much as the celebrities themselves own. Yes, your stats does make me think. It makes me think that all of corporate business in America are for business ethics, which equates to accumulating large sums of cash and minus the "ethics". They are unethical, indeed.
A.C.S.
Terrifying, isn't it? Being aware is part of the solution... but damn, we do need to get our priorities rearranged, don't we?
that is a great video.
it is sad that so few peole have ever even seen this video though.
it would be great if they would actually show these sorts of videos on TV instead of videos with half naked girls.
us americans are way too spoiled
This is terrible. I would like to send this to a record company. Give them the idea to use these statistics and just people off the street in their next video. That would be progress.
I love abortion. Read more here:
http://progressiveu.org/044921-i-love-abortion-even-if-it-murder
And everything that ends up on television is disgustingly inflated. Our priorities are messed up.
http://www.progressiveu.org/blog/ediblewoman