High vs low budget films

Low budget - Accordind to denofgeek.com 'Pi' is the lowest budget film. This film had a budget of only $60,000 and was made in 1998.

'Darren Aronofsky was surely always destined to be a successful director. Arriving on the scene at the end of the 90s, his calling card was Pi, which is quite simply one of the most unique, stunning and confident pieces of film making ever made. Produced for a pittance, Pi decides to play by its own rules, with a story involving a maths genius who cracks a code which may be the key to the stock market as well as the secret name of God.

'Taking the viewer right into obsessive madness of the main character, as well as providing a head scratching and thrilling chase narrative. The themes which would dominate Aronofsky’s later work are all present here, as well as his much admired talent for both script and direction. Some believe that this is in fact his best work to date, and a part of me is inclined to agree with them.


Although this film doesn't have the highest budget, it is still classed as a good seller and even though they didn't have much money for equipment, they still managed to create a good film and trailer.

High budget film - 

Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End (2007)

Estimated Budget: $300 million

Value For Money: Disney certainly saw a great return on their outlay, with the third Pirates film scooping more than $960 million across the globe. On-screen however, it was a turgid snoozefest. Not that that stopped people going back for round four…

If It Had Been Low-Budget: They might have been forced to whittle the story down a little. No bad thing…

This proves that you don't necessarily need a large budget to create a good film, as if the highest budget film 'pirates of the Caribbean ' didn't have a large budget it will have still been a good film. The fact that people still watch 'Pi' the lowest budget film, tells us that money isn't always key, a good story line is however.