Breakdowns of real productions, built from interviews the people involved gave on the record. Where a budget is stated by the person who spent it, we quote it. Where it is not, we do not guess.


Music Ally reported a street‑level, burner‑account campaign for Deki Alem’s debut; no public performance figures were available, so measureable tracking is the missing piece.

Two directors described their constraints publicly and in detail: a £2,000 guerrilla shoot with seven hours of footage and ten days to cut it, and four scenes from a television drama restaged across South London in a single day. Both are more instructive than any campaign with a hidden budget.