Pre-production | Day 3

 Pre-production | Day 3

Today we watched the beginnings of some coming of age indie films, like "The Way Way Back and "500 Days of Summer". We only watched the first 2 minutes so we could see what our film will need to consist of. One thing that we all liked in the beginning of "The Way Way Back" was the opening title scene sequence which we found interesting and something that would like to replicate for out own opening sequence.


This is a shot of what the opening title sequence looks like, with a lack background and then having the  letting see through with a clip  playing in the background. We messed around on Final Cut Pro and there was a template for a title sequence which we will use because it looked very similar and it was what we wanted.
                                                                                              

We will also need to see if we can lower the capacity of the black background, to make the opening sequence more interesting instead of just having a plain black background. We will need to see if we can do this in Final Cut and to see if we are able to place a clip behind it so we don't go over our 2 minute time limit.

We all liked this title sequence because we thought it was simple and affective for our type of genre that we are going to base our film on.  In the background we are going to have the sea instead which we will need to try out in Final Cut pro. 

  

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Film Distribution

• - What is film distribution?

-  Film distribution is the process of when a movie is available to watch by anyone.

• Who distributes films normally in the UK?

- The UK has 6 main distributors

 

• - Is this different from the vertical integration model followed by the major film studios? 

- It is when the three stages are seen as part of the same larger process, under the control of one company.

 

• - What steps are the three steps of distribution?

-Once the film has been  made, this is when they can start to work on the films release strategy. Then the distributers can then secure the screening of the film within the cinemas. 

 

 

• - What are the major decisions made during the marketing of a film?

- The two main decisions when marketing a film are when they need to set a release date in a light week so they have more screen space. Then they need to invest in the materials and the marketing campaign to support it.

 

• What is P&A? And why is it important?

- P and A stands for Print and advertising. It is important

 How is digital technology revolutionising the process of film distribution & marketing? 

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Storyboard 

Here is the storyboard that we have drawn as a group. We all sat around a table and discussed what we needed to go into each box of our story. We knew we wanted to start with a shot of the waves 

which we thought will be a good way to start the begging of the film. From the help of Nick King who came in and talked to us and help us and give us ideas for out film, said that using loads of close ups of the actors face to make the audience feel awkward. 

Nick also said that we need to cut to black at a certain point in order to crate a flash back. At this point the music if we are going to add music will need to end as soon as the cut to black starts.

Then after the beach scene we are going to shoot at the grandparents house. At this point Chester is going to be unpacking his stuff out of the car and into the house. We are going to have different shot types from this point from Chester taking his stuff out of the car and then walking into thee house. In this scene this is when Chester finds the rugby ball which is when he has another flashback which reminds him  of his parents before they died in the car crash which is why he is now going to live with his parents.

 

 

In the next scene this is when Chester is going to get the phone call from the hospital saying that his parents have been in a fatal car crash.  At this point in time there will be a rugby ball some where which will cause him to think about his parents. After this the screen will cut to black to add suspense. We will also need to add some dialogue into this scene as well when Chester is responding to the other caller. Also Nick said that who ever is acting is going to need to be able to do good facial expressions especially when he has realised that his parents have just been in car crash.                                                      

Friday 21st November

Today we started to think of all the different aspects of the film like the location and the setting etc. So we started off by creating a spider diagram and with each branch has something different that we needed to think off. For example in one of the legs or branches we had the setting and the location in where we are going to shoot our film. 



Target Audience

A coming-of-age film is normally targeted at a teenage audience, as the characters are usually teenagers and the audience find it easy to relate to the characters. Themes of the genre include relationships, drugs, sex, stress, home life. The inclusion of explicit and controversial themes means the certificate of the film would be either a 12 or 15, depending on the vulgarity of the film.

Steve Neale’s

Steve Neale’s perception is that “genres exist within the context of a set of economic relations and practices”. He says that “genres are not the product of economic factors as such”, and “the conditions provided by the capitalist economy account neither for the existence of the particular genres that have until now been produced, nor for the existence of the conventions that constitute them”. For example in a new episode of a crime every episode has something different or story line like a death or someone goes missing. This happens so it can keep the audience into watching more and not getting bored because of the same story line.

Todorov

Todorov’s narrative theory states that most story’s or plot lines follow the same pattern or path

which has 5 steps. The first part of the story will display a happy part. Then the second part will

display a problem or something bad will happen. The third part is when every starts to realise

what has happened in which starts chaos. The fourth part is when the characters attempt to

solve the problem. The last part is when the problem is resolved and every can be normal

again.



Day 1 - 14/11/14

Pre Production

After I had gotten into my group the first thing we did was came up with a spider diagram which had all the different film, genres on  so we could come up with some ideas in what type of genre we wanted to work on.  As you can see we wrote down all the genre types on each branch and then came up with different ideas in what each genre would include. For example for a thriller we had the idea of having a chase scene or including a detective. After some time and writing down different ideas we drifted towards the Indie genre because we had the most ideas for it and we thought it would be the best for us. 

Then we starting to write think of some good Indie films like 'The kings of Summer' and 'The spectacular now' and 'The Way Way Back'. This meant we could get ideas from the beginning of other films which could give us more ideas for our own opening.  We also started to write down some ideas of our opening could be about. We had the idea of a boy on a beach standing in the water and then having a narrator saying how he got there etc. 

Institutions and Audiences

 

- List five media sectors and one leading profit making company for each sector.

• Tv - Channel 4  
• Film -  Paramount
• videogames - EA  
• music - Universal Music Group
• Internet - Google

- Name Two Independent music Labels.

• Matador Records
• Rough trade records

-  Why is some music downloading legal and some illegal.

• ITunes would be a legal way to download music because they have the right to sell the songs whereas  a pirated website would be illegal because they do not have the rights, whereas ITunes buy the rights to be able to sell the music on there website.

- Who owns the British board  of Film Classification.

• It was created in 1912 by members of the film industry. But today the President of the Company is Patrick Swaffer.

- Name three organisation that own British  Newspapers.

• The Daily Mail
• The Mail on Sunday
• The Sun

 - Why does the BBC have no adverts.

• It is because the BBC are funded by the TV licence fee which means that you are able to watch the TV and therefore they don't need to show adds.

 -  What is OFCOM

• OFCM is the communications regulator in the UK. They regulate the TV and radio sectors, fixed line telecoms, mobiles, postal services, plus the airwaves over which wireless devices operate.

 - What is a MP4

• An MP4 is a digital multimedia format mostly used to store video and audio but can be used for other things like photos and images.

- Why does the sound regulars disappear on Live Big Brother feed

•  Because swearing isn't allowed on Live television.

- Who owns Channel 5

• Richard Desmond

- What happened as a result of the Hutton Report

• BBC reports which looked at the government's reasons for going to war.

- From what do magazine publishers make most of their money

• They are able to earn money from advertisements, subscriptions and the sales generated from newsstands.

- Who owns the regional ITV channel

• At present, the companies are able to broadcast additional channels and all choose to broadcast the ITV plc owned ITV2, ITV3, ITV4 and CITV in their region.

- How do websites that offer content for free make money

• By Advertisements 

- Who responds to viewers complaints about adverts

• The ASA - advertising standards authority

- Which is the biggest film industry in the world

• Bollywood

- Who decides the age classifications for Videogames

• PEGI - Pan. European. Game. Information

- Which media company do you pay the most money to

• The Internet

- What is an RSS feed

• The RSS is the Rich Site Summary

- Who are BARB and what do they do

• The BARB are the Broadcasters Audience Research Board which provide official viewing figures for the UK television audiences.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Watching Love Thy Neighbor

Love Thy Neighbor is a TV show based around a suburban white working class couple that live in Twickenham and are trying to get used to have a black couple as there new next door neighbors. This TV show was popular because it was on at the time when Britain recently arrived population of black immigrants. 

My first reaction to when I watched the first episode was the words that they used are very different from today. He said words like 'sambo', 'Chocolate drop', 'Nig-nog' and 'brown eyes' which would be classed as racist if we said them in this day and age. This just shows  the different between the old English terms and what they said to colored people.  In one part of the second episode when Eddie Booth segregates the whites from the blacks. He starts to talk about how they can get there country back from the 'blacks' because he think that they are taking over and that there are too many of them. Eddie even said ' why are there so many foreigners in Italy', even when he is the foreigner. But he doesn't see it that way.

Another part in episode 2 the victor leaves and they are represented with a new one. But when Eddie sees who it is you can tell that he is disgraced strait away that he sends a letter the Archbishop because he doesn't want a 'nignog' as a victor. He also says he wants a 'white victor' because he is white himself. His wife Joan Booth disagrees with what Eddie is saying and says 'What difference does it make'.  In the letter that Eddie wrote he said that he Suggests that the church sends its blacks victors back to the jungle'. If some one said this to any mix raced person they would go to prison for being racist, but in those days there was no law for being racist or anything about it.

Eddie isnt the only one being racist it is also it is Bill Reynolds who refers Eddie to as a 'White Honky' (which is just another word for white people) and 'snowflake' which are both racist words to white people as well. So its not just one being racist it is both.

Eddie inst just being racist to colored people it is also the new owner of the corner shop who is from Pakistan. Eddie calls him a 'filthy Paki' because he think he is stealing when he actually isn't.    

Overall I think that this program just highlights the differences between what was shown on TV back in the 1970's and how TV has changed up until now. If you watch TV there would never be any mention of back people being different or being called 'Nignogs' because its racism. Overall there is really one main character that is actually being racist and that is Eddie. When Eddie says something racist the audience start to laugh as if it were funny because back then in the 1970's it was funny to them to be racist. But know it is a criminal offence. The words they use that are racist would never be said by the younger generation because they were not brought up with people being racist. But the older generation have been brought up with blacks and whites being different.

Facts about Walt Disney

- People who worked for Walt Disney were not allowed to have beards until 2012.

- The Founders  were Walt Disney and Roy O Disney.

- They had over 175,000 employees.


- Walt Disney received one regular Oscar statue and then seven smaller statues, for when Snow White and the Seven Dwarves won an award.

- Walt Disney is one of the largest and best known studios in American Cinema.

- Disney also owns and operates the ABC broadcast television network; cable television networks such as Disney Channel.
- The total assets of Disney is 81.241 Billion dollars.

- Disney is not just a film company they are a multi national corporation. They have there own theme park, broadcasting station and there own music label.

- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and its sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End were produced together on a combined budget of $450 million, making them the most expensive production.