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Film Courage: Why do you say movies are like real estate?
Ramon ‘Swift’ Sloan, director, producer and writer: Because movies are property, movies are intellectual property. Let’s take a simple idea, let’s take a house. It might cost you a hundred thousand dollars. You might not be able to get a hundred thousand dollars not a house here but let’s take a house that costs a hundred thousand and you take a movie that costs a hundred thousand. Both of these properties, one is a physical property, both are physical but one is a property that is actually on land and this property lives now in the world that we live in, in a digital world. You take both of these properties and the idea of both of them is what the house is, either you’re going to flip this property and you’re going to just sell it. You buy it for a hundred thousand, put fifty thousand into it, sell it for three hundred thousand, same thing. With the movie either you’re going to make the movie for one hundred thousand dollars, sell it for three hundred thousand dollars or you take both of these properties and you keep them over time and just let them pay you residuals. In the real estate world we call it a housing portfolio (I’m sure there’s other terms). In the film world we call it a catalog or a film slate. They might not perform the same and what I found is that films perform better than a lot of real estate that I’ve been involved with so that’s just an analogy that I came up with or a formula whatever you want to call it. It’s something that I’ve come up with to look at the two businesses and compare. I think that the overall goal for you to figure out is am I just selling these properties, am I building them to sell them or am I building them to get residuals?
Film Courage: Are there buyer and seller markets for films similar to how there are ups and downs in the real estate market, are there peaks and valleys for selling films?…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
Ramon “Swift” Sloan is the founder of Swift Motion Pictures; a movie director, producer and writer. The Milwaukee native started his career in entertainment as a book author and publisher. he released his first novel Motivation- Mastering the Game in 2010 His breakout novel is now depicted in the film series Circumstances – which was executive produced by the author himself under Swift Motion Pictures, a venture that derived from a passion for the arts through his schooling of Television & Video Production at Milwaukee Area Technical College. His work in television includes that of cameraman and floor director for Milwaukee Public Television (MPTV) programs : Black Nouveau and Cooking Raw. His entrepreneurial work both as an author and movie producer have been featured in The Source Magazine, Sheen Magazine, Hip Hop Weekly, Cali Post, Don Diva Magazine, and more. He’s also appeared on Tv One’s talk show Sister Circle TV, This Is 50, Fox 6 news , and has been interviewed by countless journalist including the likes of Raro Lae, Margo Spann’s CoCoa Hollywood Live, Kierra M of Dash Radio, and more. Sloan is working on several film projects in various production phases.
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