I myself was one of the freaks waiting in line for the movie for the past 6 weeks out front of Graumanns Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. (Yes it didn't play at that theatre, but thats a whole other political mumbo jumbo) This is about extreme as it gets. I wasn't there for 6 weeks straight as we all would come and go, but it was basically a 24/7 party with a group of people with like interests. Plus we raised 30K for a worthy charity
The thing I don't get is there are plenty of people that get at least this crazy about sports or other things every damn day and thats considered normal. Us as fans don't have events that happen every Monday night for weeks and weeks every year. So it all gets crammed into this time period that is relevant to something we enjoy. Its not like all every star wars fan does is watch and talk about star wars for our whole life. This was just an excuse to do that for a short period.
Anybody who has ever had any passion for anything in there life should have some understanding of what goes through the minds of a person who would wait in line for a movie. And such a big part of the whole thing is doing with other people and having fun together. In my opinion being passionate about a movie means you are probably also passionate about other things as well ( career, family, or even sports. )and passion about something put into positive use is what drives us as humans ( If I can get 'deep for a moment')
There are many costs that go into account for a big budget project then for the average person who records at a budget studio. A well known recording studio with large sound boards, multiple isolation booths, and lots of new and vintage out board effects units will run 2 to 3 thousand dollars a day and that usually only includes the studio and an Assistant Engineer. You can figure 2 to 3 months of studio time. That right there is around $200,000. Then you include the engineer who will charge $500 a day and the producers fee's. So add $40, 000 for the engineer and about the same for a Producer. Many times an album will be Mixed at a different studio then it was recorded, so that adds on more days. Top notch mixing engineers will charge 3 to 4 thousand per song. So we can add 20 more days of studio time to mix at $40,000 and $40,000 for mixing. Now add a Mastering engineer to master the album at a cost of $5,000. Then add the day to day food for the group and any other luxories. Hotels, flying to different studios to work with different people etc...
This just describes the pieces to get the Album into a shippable form. Then there is the production costs after that. These numbers are obviously not exact figures, but they are real figures of what things cost in the music recording world. So you can see where such a high figure could come from.
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I myself was one of the freaks waiting in line for the movie for the past 6 weeks out front of Graumanns Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. (Yes it didn't play at that theatre, but thats a whole other political mumbo jumbo) This is about extreme as it gets. I wasn't there for 6 weeks straight as we all would come and go, but it was basically a 24/7 party with a group of people with like interests. Plus we raised 30K for a worthy charity
The thing I don't get is there are plenty of people that get at least this crazy about sports or other things every damn day and thats considered normal. Us as fans don't have events that happen every Monday night for weeks and weeks every year. So it all gets crammed into this time period that is relevant to something we enjoy. Its not like all every star wars fan does is watch and talk about star wars for our whole life. This was just an excuse to do that for a short period.
Anybody who has ever had any passion for anything in there life should have some understanding of what goes through the minds of a person who would wait in line for a movie. And such a big part of the whole thing is doing with other people and having fun together. In my opinion being passionate about a movie means you are probably also passionate about other things as well ( career, family, or even sports. )and passion about something put into positive use is what drives us as humans ( If I can get 'deep for a moment')
There are many costs that go into account for a big budget project then for the average person who records at a budget studio. A well known recording studio with large sound boards, multiple isolation booths, and lots of new and vintage out board effects units will run 2 to 3 thousand dollars a day and that usually only includes the studio and an Assistant Engineer. You can figure 2 to 3 months of studio time. That right there is around $200,000. Then you include the engineer who will charge $500 a day and the producers fee's. So add $40, 000 for the engineer and about the same for a Producer. Many times an album will be Mixed at a different studio then it was recorded, so that adds on more days. Top notch mixing engineers will charge 3 to 4 thousand per song. So we can add 20 more days of studio time to mix at $40,000 and $40,000 for mixing. Now add a Mastering engineer to master the album at a cost of $5,000. Then add the day to day food for the group and any other luxories. Hotels, flying to different studios to work with different people etc ...
This just describes the pieces to get the Album into a shippable form. Then there is the production costs after that. These numbers are obviously not exact figures, but they are real figures of what things cost in the music recording world. So you can see where such a high figure could come from.