The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission has created a short film to raise awareness of cartels and collusion within trade.
The Marker, a 16-minute film on Accc’s YouTube channel, dramatises a scenario in which an executive is caught up in a cartel.
The concept was created and produced by Melbourne hot house Burning House with a filming budget of $50,000.
The film is the backbone of the government organisation’s campaign ‘Businesses compete, cartels just cheat’. The Accc has also released website banners and buttons for companies to include on their websites to lead back to the the Accc’s Cartel portal for users to find more information on how the user can report suspicious activities and request a ‘marker’ – immunity when reporting their involvement in a cartel.
Accc chairman, Rod Sims told Mumbrella: “We’re trying to get out a lot of messages and we thought a film that engages...
The Marker, a 16-minute film on Accc’s YouTube channel, dramatises a scenario in which an executive is caught up in a cartel.
The concept was created and produced by Melbourne hot house Burning House with a filming budget of $50,000.
The film is the backbone of the government organisation’s campaign ‘Businesses compete, cartels just cheat’. The Accc has also released website banners and buttons for companies to include on their websites to lead back to the the Accc’s Cartel portal for users to find more information on how the user can report suspicious activities and request a ‘marker’ – immunity when reporting their involvement in a cartel.
Accc chairman, Rod Sims told Mumbrella: “We’re trying to get out a lot of messages and we thought a film that engages...
- 8/31/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
It’s pretty widely accepted that negotiations are a two way street; one party gives the other something in exchange for something else. Usually in a business transaction that something is money. But what if you don’t have any money to give? Along with our many other self-imposed rules, not paying for locations was a major sticking point for David and I.
Adding ‘screen dollars’ was also a phrase that was thrown around a lot in the initial stages of planning. We didn’t have a lot of money, but we didn’t want the audience to know this. It was therefore imperative that we found locations that made our film look bigger than the budget actually allowed.
Not being able to ‘buy’ our way out of location conundrums, we were forced to get creative, not only in how to obtain our locations but how we could use them.
Adding ‘screen dollars’ was also a phrase that was thrown around a lot in the initial stages of planning. We didn’t have a lot of money, but we didn’t want the audience to know this. It was therefore imperative that we found locations that made our film look bigger than the budget actually allowed.
Not being able to ‘buy’ our way out of location conundrums, we were forced to get creative, not only in how to obtain our locations but how we could use them.
- 6/6/2012
- by Kate Talbot
- Obsessed with Film
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