8:30am Cast (Band) meets in No10
- get into costume + make-up
9:00am Shoot starts in the Studio
- band performance (60’s)
10:00am Studio
- audience (60’s)
10:30am Studio
- transition from 60’s into modern (audience)
11:00am Studio
- modern audience
11:30am Studio
- TRANSITION
1:00pm LUNCH BREAK
- meet back at 1:45
2:00pm Studio/Corridor
- Paula walking through corridor (both versions)
3:00pm Studio
- missing shots of Paula
3:30pm BEDROOM
- SET - UP
4:00pm Bedroom
- getting ready shots
4:30pm OUTSIDE
- SET - UP
5:00pm Outside
- entering shots
5:30pm INSIDE
- TV zoom in
Wednesday, 17 November 2010
Tuesday, 16 November 2010
Poster ideas
In the coridor where Paula will walk will be a 60's poster of 'Jack Thomson' and a modern one. Both in the same style but different colours (60's will be black white) and writing plus different text. We will have a picture of the lead singer from the side and he is looking at the writing. Probably on the modern one he will wear sunglasses.
Cast List
Lead Singer: Will Teal
Guitar: Tom Evans
Bongos: Glen Pegado
Drums: Jamie Parker
Bass: Sam Hindmarsh
Main Girl: Paula Riemann
Audience Members: Helen Lagender, Courtney Madinca, Tabitha Brown,
Emma Stack
TV Presenter: Hugo Ellis
Bodyguard: James Tunstill, Adam Grant
Camera Man: Jason Guildford
This is the Cast for our Production. We had to find a Cast that could, especially in case of the band, look very 60's (hairstyle) but easily be made modern. With the lead singer being Will Teal we found someone perfect even though he is A2 so it was very hard to get him out of lessons, but he has the perfect hairstyle and look for the video. The rest of the band kind of fits that description as well and most of them play the instruments they are meant to play in the video which will probably make things easier. The audience members were chosen simply because of looks and availability and the bodyguards as well because they both look pretty scary and stereotypical. We chose Hugo as our TV presenter, because he has the kind of look as well and as he is my drama teacher I know he will be perfect doing it.
Guitar: Tom Evans
Bongos: Glen Pegado
Drums: Jamie Parker
Bass: Sam Hindmarsh
Main Girl: Paula Riemann
Audience Members: Helen Lagender, Courtney Madinca, Tabitha Brown,
Emma Stack
TV Presenter: Hugo Ellis
Bodyguard: James Tunstill, Adam Grant
Camera Man: Jason Guildford
This is the Cast for our Production. We had to find a Cast that could, especially in case of the band, look very 60's (hairstyle) but easily be made modern. With the lead singer being Will Teal we found someone perfect even though he is A2 so it was very hard to get him out of lessons, but he has the perfect hairstyle and look for the video. The rest of the band kind of fits that description as well and most of them play the instruments they are meant to play in the video which will probably make things easier. The audience members were chosen simply because of looks and availability and the bodyguards as well because they both look pretty scary and stereotypical. We chose Hugo as our TV presenter, because he has the kind of look as well and as he is my drama teacher I know he will be perfect doing it.
Props List
Microphone (60's - modern)
Bass (60's - modern)
Guitar (60's - modern)
Drums (60's - modern)
Bongos (60's - modern)
These instruments in 60's style and modern version are provided and organized by the school. We want these to change as well because that will signify very clearly that we are changing time.
60's TV Camera
We will rent that for about 100 £ for our video.
Posters for the corridor
We will take pictures of people (and ourselves) plus the band (Jack Thompson and the Quartet) and then, with the help of the photography department print these of and make them in a 60's style to use for the corridor in our music video.
Bass (60's - modern)
Guitar (60's - modern)
Drums (60's - modern)
Bongos (60's - modern)
These instruments in 60's style and modern version are provided and organized by the school. We want these to change as well because that will signify very clearly that we are changing time.
60's TV Camera
We will rent that for about 100 £ for our video.
Posters for the corridor
We will take pictures of people (and ourselves) plus the band (Jack Thompson and the Quartet) and then, with the help of the photography department print these of and make them in a 60's style to use for the corridor in our music video.
E-mail, organizing costume for cast
This is the final version of our Pop Video Cast
Will Teal - Lead Singer
Tom Evans - Guitar
Sam Hindmarsh - Bass
Jamie Parker - Drums
Glen Pegado - Bongos
Paula Riemann - Lead Girl
Helen Lageder, Courtney Madincea, Tabitha Brown, Emma Stack - Audience Members
The shoot day is the 25th of November and we will send you the shooting schedule as soon as it is finished. Please come with you hair undone so we can then do it for you. You'll be given costumes for when you should look like you are 60's, however when you are meant to look modern we were hoping that you have your own clothes.
If you are a member of the band please, as a modern outfit, wear normal shoes (not white), dark jeans and bring a "good" looking t-shirt and a white shirt in. If you are an audience member pease wear whatever you would wear if you were going to a concert of a rock band. If you are the lead girl (Paula) please wear your biker boots, skinny jeans (either dark blue or black) and bring in about 5 different tops you would wear at a rock concert so we can then decide what looks best.
As well as this for the boys and the audience members, we will sort out 60's outfits which you will have to try on, so please send me an e-mail telling me when you have some free time (probably just about 10 minutes) so that we can see whether it fits and looks good or not. Please also send me a mail with your shoe and clothing size.
Thanks already, I hope you are looking forward to the shoot and thanks for being in it.
Steph, Emma and Chazz
Will Teal - Lead Singer
Tom Evans - Guitar
Sam Hindmarsh - Bass
Jamie Parker - Drums
Glen Pegado - Bongos
Paula Riemann - Lead Girl
Helen Lageder, Courtney Madincea, Tabitha Brown, Emma Stack - Audience Members
The shoot day is the 25th of November and we will send you the shooting schedule as soon as it is finished. Please come with you hair undone so we can then do it for you. You'll be given costumes for when you should look like you are 60's, however when you are meant to look modern we were hoping that you have your own clothes.
If you are a member of the band please, as a modern outfit, wear normal shoes (not white), dark jeans and bring a "good" looking t-shirt and a white shirt in. If you are an audience member pease wear whatever you would wear if you were going to a concert of a rock band. If you are the lead girl (Paula) please wear your biker boots, skinny jeans (either dark blue or black) and bring in about 5 different tops you would wear at a rock concert so we can then decide what looks best.
As well as this for the boys and the audience members, we will sort out 60's outfits which you will have to try on, so please send me an e-mail telling me when you have some free time (probably just about 10 minutes) so that we can see whether it fits and looks good or not. Please also send me a mail with your shoe and clothing size.
Thanks already, I hope you are looking forward to the shoot and thanks for being in it.
Steph, Emma and Chazz
60's camera
Marconi V322 came out in 1960’s to 1970’s and it is a broadcast camera, 2 specimens available.
This camera we want to use in our shoot, a man is sitting behind it and it should seem like he is filming the whole band.
Not strictly a 'broadcast' camera, but certainly a quality vidicon camera. The V322 was intended for industrial and educational studio applications and saw widespread use with educational bodies and in corporate training/promo facilities. Not to mention a few broadcasters too! The camera appears here on a 'Dennard' pedestal. Click on the image to see the reverse aspect.
This is the camera that we found on goldenagetv and I have contacted Paul Marshall and he said we could pick it up in Sessex for our shoot day for about 150 pounds. Steph wrote an e-mail to them and they answered:
“Hello Stephanie,
The address is:
Fern House
Church Road
Harby
NEWARK
Notts
NG23 7ED
It's actually 8 miles west of Lincoln, just a few miles off of the A1 Newark A46 turn off. It's a cream coloured detached house, the first (and only) one on Church Road, There's a very large green barn to the left containing most of the stock and a 34' long television OB truck to the right. It's fairly easy to find . . .
We normally operate with Purchase Order and Invoice to be paid by cheque or BACS. Cash is OK but we will still need some sort of *official* order, a formal e mail or a letter in the post with your company letter head. The price is as agreed at 150 UKP for one day. The 'one day' is flexible in that you could pick it up a day or two before and return a day or two later. The hire charge reflects one 'used' day.
Beware that the pedestal is heavy (so too is the camera). It does break up into a 'skid' and the central column with the legs folding in. It will go in a car/small van.
Hope this is all OK
Many thanks,
Best regards,
Paul Marshall
Partner, GATV”
Now we have to get the camera three days before our shoot and we asked a driver to get it with us, when we will have the camera we will work out how and how often we want to use it in out shoot.
This camera we want to use in our shoot, a man is sitting behind it and it should seem like he is filming the whole band.
Not strictly a 'broadcast' camera, but certainly a quality vidicon camera. The V322 was intended for industrial and educational studio applications and saw widespread use with educational bodies and in corporate training/promo facilities. Not to mention a few broadcasters too! The camera appears here on a 'Dennard' pedestal. Click on the image to see the reverse aspect.
This is the camera that we found on goldenagetv and I have contacted Paul Marshall and he said we could pick it up in Sessex for our shoot day for about 150 pounds. Steph wrote an e-mail to them and they answered:
“Hello Stephanie,
The address is:
Fern House
Church Road
Harby
NEWARK
Notts
NG23 7ED
It's actually 8 miles west of Lincoln, just a few miles off of the A1 Newark A46 turn off. It's a cream coloured detached house, the first (and only) one on Church Road, There's a very large green barn to the left containing most of the stock and a 34' long television OB truck to the right. It's fairly easy to find . . .
We normally operate with Purchase Order and Invoice to be paid by cheque or BACS. Cash is OK but we will still need some sort of *official* order, a formal e mail or a letter in the post with your company letter head. The price is as agreed at 150 UKP for one day. The 'one day' is flexible in that you could pick it up a day or two before and return a day or two later. The hire charge reflects one 'used' day.
Beware that the pedestal is heavy (so too is the camera). It does break up into a 'skid' and the central column with the legs folding in. It will go in a car/small van.
Hope this is all OK
Many thanks,
Best regards,
Paul Marshall
Partner, GATV”
Now we have to get the camera three days before our shoot and we asked a driver to get it with us, when we will have the camera we will work out how and how often we want to use it in out shoot.
Thursday, 21 October 2010
Editing process
We discussed some changes which we could do, they are about the color (black and white) and how the change over is working from old 60's style to modern. They told us to do statis shots, movement in the frame also when the girl is getting ready we should do a reflection in the morrow over the shoulder shot. Everything around her is colorful like for example she herself and her bedroom. When she is passing the coridor everthing turn colorful, suddenly the door opens and you can see this girl she and everthing around colorful people inside are still black and white. When she is passing the audience she puts a girls top off and she gets colorful, people around see it and start to take their clothes off they turn then colourful as well. Now we have the idea of 1 min 60's style then 23 sec. change over and 1 min. in the modern studio.
At 2.30 we cut our everything. Because it will not suit to our idea anymore. After everything is modern we work with a black curtains but very modern lights (colorful lights). All the audience member are running on stage now and doing the change over not only the girl anymore. We will also have the man now which won't let the girl get inside. Our posters will have frames now because this was usual in the 60's.
In the last lesson we finished editing our storyboards and putting them onto the timeline. We perfectioned the bits that weren't good and played it over and over searching for possible mistakes. Then we proposed the idea and showed it to our teachers to figure out whether they were happy with the end result as well, as we changed the whole thing around quite a bit and also left some shots out. Luke said that there were some things he still didn't like, as for example the shots of her putting on make-up, the fact that we cut out the bit where she enters the club and there are two bodyguards in front of the door, the fact that the changing around of the band takes too long and the audience becoming modern because they felt it was too boring.
Basically they wanted us to have shots of Paula getting ready in colour, probably in over-the-shoulder shots, and more about in her bedroom than actually in her mirror. Furthermore we should think of a way how to change the audience more interesting than just touching them. An idea that had been proposed was that Paula could rip of the audiences clothes and underneath there would be colorful stuff and then suddenly, as we do not have enough time, the audience would start changing themselves and figuring out that they have colorful clothes underneath as well. Also, as the song is about 3 minutes they said that we should put in a break at 2:30 and then the first minute (up to the change of sound) would be in the 60's style with colour cut-aways - then 23 seconds in the break of changing the band around, however also the audience members would come on stage as well and help, as we don't have enough time and the instruments and everything else needs to be changed around as well as the styling make-over.
Then the last minute of the song would be completely modern.
At 2.30 we cut our everything. Because it will not suit to our idea anymore. After everything is modern we work with a black curtains but very modern lights (colorful lights). All the audience member are running on stage now and doing the change over not only the girl anymore. We will also have the man now which won't let the girl get inside. Our posters will have frames now because this was usual in the 60's.
In the last lesson we finished editing our storyboards and putting them onto the timeline. We perfectioned the bits that weren't good and played it over and over searching for possible mistakes. Then we proposed the idea and showed it to our teachers to figure out whether they were happy with the end result as well, as we changed the whole thing around quite a bit and also left some shots out. Luke said that there were some things he still didn't like, as for example the shots of her putting on make-up, the fact that we cut out the bit where she enters the club and there are two bodyguards in front of the door, the fact that the changing around of the band takes too long and the audience becoming modern because they felt it was too boring.
Basically they wanted us to have shots of Paula getting ready in colour, probably in over-the-shoulder shots, and more about in her bedroom than actually in her mirror. Furthermore we should think of a way how to change the audience more interesting than just touching them. An idea that had been proposed was that Paula could rip of the audiences clothes and underneath there would be colorful stuff and then suddenly, as we do not have enough time, the audience would start changing themselves and figuring out that they have colorful clothes underneath as well. Also, as the song is about 3 minutes they said that we should put in a break at 2:30 and then the first minute (up to the change of sound) would be in the 60's style with colour cut-aways - then 23 seconds in the break of changing the band around, however also the audience members would come on stage as well and help, as we don't have enough time and the instruments and everything else needs to be changed around as well as the styling make-over.
Then the last minute of the song would be completely modern.
Storyboard
From beginning on we had the idea of having a song from the 60's and a 60's Tv studio later on came the idea with everything black and white, because it would be boring to have the whole video black and white we wanted to do it modern as well. So we had the idea having a band with fice members, audience and a 60's looking TV studio. Because out song is about love we wanted a Girl in it as well so we decided to take one like this we also had the idea that she can make everything modern. We started thinking about it a lot and suddenly had a idea, that she is changing the people by their clothing and then they turn colorful she is also changning the band and suddenly the studio trun colorful and the lights very modern. We started the draw the storyboard but not in order first in different sections.
After choosing our initial idea, we started producing our storyboards. Our initial idea was, that we had the setting of a 60's television show and we would simply have shots of the band performing live as well as the audiences reaction to the band. However then we were told that this wasn't enough and so we thought we bring in elements of the modern would that have been invented in the 60's but are still accurate today to represent a connection between the two. We came up with the Car MINI, as it was invented in the 60's but there are newer versions of the car today and it is very popular as well. Furthermore we wanted to play on the style element according to fashion and looked at the mini skirts and typical 60's fashion, that are becoming popular again today. Then we would dress the audience and the main female fan of the band and the band itself in 60's fashion, but make a transition to them in modern fashion, however in 60's style.
Then we came up with the idea that we could just actually paint the instruments so we wouldn't have the issue with the blue-screen - however this would lead to the fact that we would need at least 5 different guitars + 5 different drums etc and the transitions between half-painted etc wouldn't look great at all.
So we skipped that idea even though we all really liked it - but we liked the element that there were some things in colour and some weren't so we came up with the idea that we could have eveything in black and white except the band playhing and their instruments which would then be in colour. However this would look good being shot in two layers, however it wouldn't actually say or signify anything so we skipped part of that as well.
Moving on we realized that we had Paula Riemann as the actress for the main girl who is a great dancer and we thought we could have her coming in being a great fan of the band trying to get through them and we would split the screen and have her in black and white on the one side in a 60's style and on the other side dressed very modern and in colour. Then she would come in and dance. However we didn't actually like the whole split screen idea and also this would make the whole video about the girl and we didn't really want to do that either. However then we figured that she could actually be the one making sure that it becomes modern and in the song that we have chosen there is a great drum break after about a minute which we wanted to use to represent the change.
Through this process we came to our finished idea which is, that basically we start off in the 60's television studio with the presenter etc. and we would have the band performing and shots of the audience but cut-aways to Paula getting ready (in colour) and she would try to enter the club modern dressed and everything is black and white except her. She walks throught the studio etc and whenever she touches some people in the audience, they become modern and in colour as well. When there is the change of sound in the music she would go and stage and start modulling the band arround for the rest of the song by givbing them a more modern style, new instruments etc and at the ende of the sound they are all in colour and also the change of lighting has changed. The last shot would be Paula walking out, happy with what shes done. Everything colourful and modern. All the clothing, set, camera, lighting colours.
After choosing our initial idea, we started producing our storyboards. Our initial idea was, that we had the setting of a 60's television show and we would simply have shots of the band performing live as well as the audiences reaction to the band. However then we were told that this wasn't enough and so we thought we bring in elements of the modern would that have been invented in the 60's but are still accurate today to represent a connection between the two. We came up with the Car MINI, as it was invented in the 60's but there are newer versions of the car today and it is very popular as well. Furthermore we wanted to play on the style element according to fashion and looked at the mini skirts and typical 60's fashion, that are becoming popular again today. Then we would dress the audience and the main female fan of the band and the band itself in 60's fashion, but make a transition to them in modern fashion, however in 60's style.
Then we came up with the idea that we could just actually paint the instruments so we wouldn't have the issue with the blue-screen - however this would lead to the fact that we would need at least 5 different guitars + 5 different drums etc and the transitions between half-painted etc wouldn't look great at all.
So we skipped that idea even though we all really liked it - but we liked the element that there were some things in colour and some weren't so we came up with the idea that we could have eveything in black and white except the band playhing and their instruments which would then be in colour. However this would look good being shot in two layers, however it wouldn't actually say or signify anything so we skipped part of that as well.
Moving on we realized that we had Paula Riemann as the actress for the main girl who is a great dancer and we thought we could have her coming in being a great fan of the band trying to get through them and we would split the screen and have her in black and white on the one side in a 60's style and on the other side dressed very modern and in colour. Then she would come in and dance. However we didn't actually like the whole split screen idea and also this would make the whole video about the girl and we didn't really want to do that either. However then we figured that she could actually be the one making sure that it becomes modern and in the song that we have chosen there is a great drum break after about a minute which we wanted to use to represent the change.
Through this process we came to our finished idea which is, that basically we start off in the 60's television studio with the presenter etc. and we would have the band performing and shots of the audience but cut-aways to Paula getting ready (in colour) and she would try to enter the club modern dressed and everything is black and white except her. She walks throught the studio etc and whenever she touches some people in the audience, they become modern and in colour as well. When there is the change of sound in the music she would go and stage and start modulling the band arround for the rest of the song by givbing them a more modern style, new instruments etc and at the ende of the sound they are all in colour and also the change of lighting has changed. The last shot would be Paula walking out, happy with what shes done. Everything colourful and modern. All the clothing, set, camera, lighting colours.
Monday, 18 October 2010
Our star Images
Our star is called Jack Thomson and we want him to be an organic artist and a true artist. He plays the guitar and the harmonica himself and is a true singer. He is an artist such as Paolo Nutini, good looking and "the goody".
Lightning
Old 60's spot lights and white normal lights when everything turns colooful there will be really modern lights like red or blue.
Friday, 10 September 2010
Copyright letter to Label
We are a group of A Level students working on an A Level project for a qualification in Media Studies. We are writing to request permission to use the following track as part of this project:
'For your Love' by John Rzeznik
With your permission the track would be used as the accompaniment to a short form video that is made purely for assessment purposes and will have no commercial usage. The video will be viewed only by members of the school community and the assessor of the examination board.
The artist and the copyright holder will of course be fully recognised in the pre-production and evaluation material that accompanies the project. We can also include a full copyright notice if required both in the planning material and on the video itself.
Yours sincerely
Emma Solms
Hurtwood House School
'For your Love' by John Rzeznik
With your permission the track would be used as the accompaniment to a short form video that is made purely for assessment purposes and will have no commercial usage. The video will be viewed only by members of the school community and the assessor of the examination board.
The artist and the copyright holder will of course be fully recognised in the pre-production and evaluation material that accompanies the project. We can also include a full copyright notice if required both in the planning material and on the video itself.
Yours sincerely
Emma Solms
Hurtwood House School
Chosen cover track
We have chosen the song 'for your love' by Yardbirds, but we will use the Cover version of John Rzeznik.
Artist Profile
Our artist will be named 'Jack Thomson' and the whole band 'Jack Thomson and the Quartet' which is also old 60's style.
Our Target Audience
The target audience will be our generation of 15 to 25 year old people. But also an older generations who are fans of the yardbirds or beatles which is also this style of music.
Institutional Context
History ?
The artist we have created is called Jack Thomson. He was born in New York City at 1991 and is now 19 years old. He makes music since 9 years and had his break-through with the band that he is the front singer of “The Clocks” in 2007. The genre he is within is rock / alternative-rock. As a front-singer of “The Clocks”, Jack was more of a hard rocker, however now that he is working on his solo-career, he moved more into the genre of alternative rock. He is probably going into the direction of an artist called Paolo Nutini, developing into a charming musician who is being loved by his attracted audience.
What genre(s) of music do the band/artist fit into?
Jack Thomson is possibly mostly influenced by the genre of rock / alternative rock, however also by classic rock artists such as “The Beatles”, “The Rolling Stones” and “The Kinks”. Also he is possibly aiming to be similar to Paolo Nutini. His contemporary competitors are people and bands such as “Nickelback”, “Linkin Park”, “Goo Goo Dolls”, “Metallica”, “U2”, “Sonic Youth” and “Nirvana”. The genre helps to shape Jack’s Star-image, because you usually expect rock or alternative rock artists to be very man-like, possibly with tattoos and a guitar, and Jack Thomson fits exactly into that visual image according to how we created him. However he doesn’t have tattoos and possibly represents a rather soft-rocker instead of a hard-rocker. His music is guitars focused which we will also commerce in a way that we take pictures of him with a guitar and estimate the fact that he is a real artist. Therefore we will address a large pre-existing fan base and possibly reach them through mainly the word-of-mouth effect, as well as through the help of social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace as well as YouTube.
What record label are the band/artist signed to?
Jack Thomson is assigned to Metal Blade Records which is part of Warner Bros. Records. Other acts who are assigned to that Label as well are for example Lilly Allan, Jason Derulo, Iyaz, Mika, and Daniel Powter. The choice of label has probably a huge effect on the development of the artist, because as Warner Bros. Records own a lot of musicians as well as promoting aspects such as magazines and television programmes, Jack Thomson has a high chance of being promoted and marketed very quick and effectively. Furthermore Warner Bros. Records as well as Metal Blade Records are very experiences in what they do and therefore create a good and secure base for our artist.
The typical fan’s lifestyle would probably be that he is a musician as well – the typical “cool-guy” sort of thing. They might listen to the different alternatives of rock such as hard rock, blues rock, soft rock, alternative rock etc. Typically they would consume other media products such as unplugged discs, live concert DVD’s and fan-shirts.
The artist we have created is called Jack Thomson. He was born in New York City at 1991 and is now 19 years old. He makes music since 9 years and had his break-through with the band that he is the front singer of “The Clocks” in 2007. The genre he is within is rock / alternative-rock. As a front-singer of “The Clocks”, Jack was more of a hard rocker, however now that he is working on his solo-career, he moved more into the genre of alternative rock. He is probably going into the direction of an artist called Paolo Nutini, developing into a charming musician who is being loved by his attracted audience.
What genre(s) of music do the band/artist fit into?
Jack Thomson is possibly mostly influenced by the genre of rock / alternative rock, however also by classic rock artists such as “The Beatles”, “The Rolling Stones” and “The Kinks”. Also he is possibly aiming to be similar to Paolo Nutini. His contemporary competitors are people and bands such as “Nickelback”, “Linkin Park”, “Goo Goo Dolls”, “Metallica”, “U2”, “Sonic Youth” and “Nirvana”. The genre helps to shape Jack’s Star-image, because you usually expect rock or alternative rock artists to be very man-like, possibly with tattoos and a guitar, and Jack Thomson fits exactly into that visual image according to how we created him. However he doesn’t have tattoos and possibly represents a rather soft-rocker instead of a hard-rocker. His music is guitars focused which we will also commerce in a way that we take pictures of him with a guitar and estimate the fact that he is a real artist. Therefore we will address a large pre-existing fan base and possibly reach them through mainly the word-of-mouth effect, as well as through the help of social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace as well as YouTube.
What record label are the band/artist signed to?
Jack Thomson is assigned to Metal Blade Records which is part of Warner Bros. Records. Other acts who are assigned to that Label as well are for example Lilly Allan, Jason Derulo, Iyaz, Mika, and Daniel Powter. The choice of label has probably a huge effect on the development of the artist, because as Warner Bros. Records own a lot of musicians as well as promoting aspects such as magazines and television programmes, Jack Thomson has a high chance of being promoted and marketed very quick and effectively. Furthermore Warner Bros. Records as well as Metal Blade Records are very experiences in what they do and therefore create a good and secure base for our artist.
The typical fan’s lifestyle would probably be that he is a musician as well – the typical “cool-guy” sort of thing. They might listen to the different alternatives of rock such as hard rock, blues rock, soft rock, alternative rock etc. Typically they would consume other media products such as unplugged discs, live concert DVD’s and fan-shirts.
Initial Ideas
Before we decided to do 'for your love' by the Yardbirds (cover John R.) we had a lot of other ideas. From the beginning on we had the idea of blues and/or old rock from the 60s. For example Ray Charles or the Beatles but because they are too famous we decided to do a song which is not that well known.
Fot the mise-en-scene we had the idea of maybe a old pub or a stage than after we had the idea of a 60s show where the band plays on stage abd the audience is excited and loves the band, our image is a solo star named Jack Thomson but the video he's playing on stage with a band. They wearing clothes and having their hair like in the 60s , some shots show the main person with a Gril they both felt in love with each other , they wearing as well 60s clothes and we show things which where there in the 60s but also are modern, like for example a mini cooper s, because in the 60s minis where very popular.
Fot the mise-en-scene we had the idea of maybe a old pub or a stage than after we had the idea of a 60s show where the band plays on stage abd the audience is excited and loves the band, our image is a solo star named Jack Thomson but the video he's playing on stage with a band. They wearing clothes and having their hair like in the 60s , some shots show the main person with a Gril they both felt in love with each other , they wearing as well 60s clothes and we show things which where there in the 60s but also are modern, like for example a mini cooper s, because in the 60s minis where very popular.
Our Production Group
We got three members: Stephanie Kufferath, Charlie Hiett and me Emma zu Solms-Laubach.
Star Image
A star is an image, not a real person, that is constructed (as any other aspect of fiction is) out of a range of materials (eg advertising, magazines etc as well as films [music])
Stars are commodities produced and consumed on the strenght of their meanings.In order to understand the relationship between the music industry and its audiences, it is important to consider the roles of music stars. The term "star" refers to the semi-mythological set of meanings constructed around music performers in order to sell the performer to a large and loyal audience.
Stars are commodities produced and consumed on the strenght of their meanings. We have to look at a star image like a person we love and want to be like it, but we only want to be like the created character and not the real person except how she/he looks like.
Stars depend upon a range of subsidiary media - magazines, TV, radio, the internet - in order to construct an image for themselves which can be marketed to their target audiences. The star image is made up of a range of meanings which are attractive to the target audiences. Fundamentally, the star image is incoherent, that is incomplete and "open". Dyer says that this is because it is based upon two key paradoxes.
Also the star image can be used to position the consumer in erlation to dominant social values (that is hegemony). Depending upon the artist, this may mean that the audience are positioned against the mainstream (though only to a limited degree, since they are still consumers within a capitalist system) or within the mainstream, or somewhere in between.
Stars are commodities produced and consumed on the strenght of their meanings.In order to understand the relationship between the music industry and its audiences, it is important to consider the roles of music stars. The term "star" refers to the semi-mythological set of meanings constructed around music performers in order to sell the performer to a large and loyal audience.
Stars are commodities produced and consumed on the strenght of their meanings. We have to look at a star image like a person we love and want to be like it, but we only want to be like the created character and not the real person except how she/he looks like.
Stars depend upon a range of subsidiary media - magazines, TV, radio, the internet - in order to construct an image for themselves which can be marketed to their target audiences. The star image is made up of a range of meanings which are attractive to the target audiences. Fundamentally, the star image is incoherent, that is incomplete and "open". Dyer says that this is because it is based upon two key paradoxes.
Also the star image can be used to position the consumer in erlation to dominant social values (that is hegemony). Depending upon the artist, this may mean that the audience are positioned against the mainstream (though only to a limited degree, since they are still consumers within a capitalist system) or within the mainstream, or somewhere in between.
Wednesday, 24 March 2010
Task 1 - Real media product
Again a picture of the main police man,named Russel.Its a close up while he is looking at the papers the young girl was drawing onto. He is wearing a suit which represent that he is upper status also in his job. In the back you can see the glass wall where you can not look outside but when you are standing outside you can look inside.
This is a bird-eye shot, where you can see our set. You can see the two actors and all the papers laying around where the young Girl was drawing onto. Its nothing in the room exeps a chair and a table where you can already think about that it could be a police office.
This is how our glass wall worked. You could look inside but not outside. You can see one guardien who can see at the young Girl but the young Girl not at him. He is watching while he is writing something onto the wall.
This is Lou from the back while she is writing the cordinates onto the glass wall. From ouside the others are watching and Russel is still in the room.
This are the three guardiens which are watching what Lou and Russel are doing. They are finding it out on the end. They also represent attractive guardiens, for example they wearing suits.
This is the main police man in our thriller, he is watching inside Lou to find out what she is thinking and what she wants to tell everyone. He should represent an attractive and 'cool' police man who can handle any problem.On this picture he is holding up the star which the young girl was drawing. He is showing it to the other guardiens who are standing outside and watching what the girl is doing.
This is a close-up of the main character. Who is a young girl which has the devil in her. We tried to make her look scary and mysterius.In the thriller she is drawing a star all over a lot of papers, after the police man is showing it to the others, is she standing up and is writing something around the star onto the glass wall.
Task 2 - Representing particular social groups
How does your product represent particular social groups?
Our thriller is about a young girl who is possessed by the devil. A film which could be a bit the same is Girl Interrupted. Girl Interrupted is an American drama feature film with Angelina Jolie and Woopie Goldberg; about a teen’s 18-month stay at a mental institution. It explores the themes of drugs, suicide and teenage life. This related to five because of the fact that they don’t actually know if she is mentally ill or not, which could be the case of our child character.
In newspapers they have many articles about young people and crime. Our film is also about young people and crime. Our film is about a young girl who is arrested and the guardians tried to find out what is happening to her, they find out that she is possessed by the devil. However they are unsure whether she has mental health problems or is the victim of demonic possession.
In the society today people don’t believe in things like devil so they look for another reason to blame, like drugs or mental health. This is related to ‘Girl Interrupted’.
All in all I want to say that many films are related to that kind of thing, because the audience and society don’t believe in the devil they think about other things like drugs, crime or mental health. They don’t believe in other things.
Newspapers concentrate on young people as perpetrators of crime. This is shown by how they refer to young people as Chavs, show them with hoodies and talk about rising drug, alcohol and knife crime among young people. Newspapers don’t talk about mental health problems because they prefer to talk about young people as folk devils to the moral panic of rising crime. An example of this is when a shopping centre banned young people last year because they wore hoodies the moral panic created by the newspapers caused this to happen. Our film attempted to subvert this theory by looking at mental health issues amongst young people and looking at them as victims rather than perpetrators of crimes.
Our thriller is about a young girl who is possessed by the devil. A film which could be a bit the same is Girl Interrupted. Girl Interrupted is an American drama feature film with Angelina Jolie and Woopie Goldberg; about a teen’s 18-month stay at a mental institution. It explores the themes of drugs, suicide and teenage life. This related to five because of the fact that they don’t actually know if she is mentally ill or not, which could be the case of our child character.
In newspapers they have many articles about young people and crime. Our film is also about young people and crime. Our film is about a young girl who is arrested and the guardians tried to find out what is happening to her, they find out that she is possessed by the devil. However they are unsure whether she has mental health problems or is the victim of demonic possession.
In the society today people don’t believe in things like devil so they look for another reason to blame, like drugs or mental health. This is related to ‘Girl Interrupted’.
All in all I want to say that many films are related to that kind of thing, because the audience and society don’t believe in the devil they think about other things like drugs, crime or mental health. They don’t believe in other things.
Newspapers concentrate on young people as perpetrators of crime. This is shown by how they refer to young people as Chavs, show them with hoodies and talk about rising drug, alcohol and knife crime among young people. Newspapers don’t talk about mental health problems because they prefer to talk about young people as folk devils to the moral panic of rising crime. An example of this is when a shopping centre banned young people last year because they wore hoodies the moral panic created by the newspapers caused this to happen. Our film attempted to subvert this theory by looking at mental health issues amongst young people and looking at them as victims rather than perpetrators of crimes.
Task 3 - Media Institutions
1.
For our Thriller, named ‘Five’, which is about a young Girl sitting in a police office and a guardian is watching her. I would use the institution ‘Lions gate’, Lionsgate is a Canadian entertainment company that has existed in different incarnations. The current company was formed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, but is headquartered in Santa Monica, California, USA. As of 2007, it is the most commercially successful independent film and television distribution company in North America.
They have made for example ‘Saw’ or ‘My bloody Valentine’. Specific they make horror movies, with low to medium budgets but still in a good quality of horror pictures so it looks very realistic, like for example in Saw the wounds and blood.
Lions gate would be good for our movie because we also working in a low budget but still want it realistic. So we could have more money for advertising and so many people would watch it although it is a low budget movie and probably not in the cinema’s so they would also be able to promote it on DVD That is how we could get more money than we paid for the film itself. Because almost the same reasons we could also use the Institutions ‘Hammer’ because it is one of the biggest British Film companies and based on thrillers. Also because they are really professional and if I would do a movie a want he to get popular and for that ‘Hammer’ is one of the best companies.
2.
Here are the URLS which will help you track the activities of the global media corporations. Some of them are very open about the links between their operating sectors. Some are not. Check out the investor’s information they provide in order to get a clear picture of exactly how huge a slice of the global media these companies own. Like: Disney, Sony, Time Warner, News Corporation, Viacom or Seagram.
They advertise through the Internet, Magazines, TV/Radio, Film or Music.
Media institutions are companies which get paid from Film makers. From them they get all the props and technologies also studios. They also have a lot of connections which helps when you want to have actors or advertising in TV or Radio. If you want to do a good movie/high concept and want the movie in the cinema’s you have to choose your company very good.
Media Institutions are an organisation that provide media content and supply the context within which media products are produced e.g. the BBC or News international.
Also involved are Companies/Organisations which represent the process of production, distribution and marketing.
For example ‘20th Century Fox’ is an American film Production and involve everything of a Media Institution.
3.
People from the age 15+ (31). Not younger because the movie is only allowed for people which are minimum 15 years old, to scary. Because our movie is not a ‘Teenager’ movie also people until 32 could watch it.
For our Thriller, named ‘Five’, which is about a young Girl sitting in a police office and a guardian is watching her. I would use the institution ‘Lions gate’, Lionsgate is a Canadian entertainment company that has existed in different incarnations. The current company was formed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, but is headquartered in Santa Monica, California, USA. As of 2007, it is the most commercially successful independent film and television distribution company in North America.
They have made for example ‘Saw’ or ‘My bloody Valentine’. Specific they make horror movies, with low to medium budgets but still in a good quality of horror pictures so it looks very realistic, like for example in Saw the wounds and blood.
Lions gate would be good for our movie because we also working in a low budget but still want it realistic. So we could have more money for advertising and so many people would watch it although it is a low budget movie and probably not in the cinema’s so they would also be able to promote it on DVD That is how we could get more money than we paid for the film itself. Because almost the same reasons we could also use the Institutions ‘Hammer’ because it is one of the biggest British Film companies and based on thrillers. Also because they are really professional and if I would do a movie a want he to get popular and for that ‘Hammer’ is one of the best companies.
2.
Here are the URLS which will help you track the activities of the global media corporations. Some of them are very open about the links between their operating sectors. Some are not. Check out the investor’s information they provide in order to get a clear picture of exactly how huge a slice of the global media these companies own. Like: Disney, Sony, Time Warner, News Corporation, Viacom or Seagram.
They advertise through the Internet, Magazines, TV/Radio, Film or Music.
Media institutions are companies which get paid from Film makers. From them they get all the props and technologies also studios. They also have a lot of connections which helps when you want to have actors or advertising in TV or Radio. If you want to do a good movie/high concept and want the movie in the cinema’s you have to choose your company very good.
Media Institutions are an organisation that provide media content and supply the context within which media products are produced e.g. the BBC or News international.
Also involved are Companies/Organisations which represent the process of production, distribution and marketing.
For example ‘20th Century Fox’ is an American film Production and involve everything of a Media Institution.
3.
People from the age 15+ (31). Not younger because the movie is only allowed for people which are minimum 15 years old, to scary. Because our movie is not a ‘Teenager’ movie also people until 32 could watch it.
Task 4 - Who would be the audience fot the media product
For our Thriller, which was called ‘five’, which is about a Girl who has the devil in her and a Guardian who tries to find out and help her because believes she knows the answer to a powerful secret. The film will feature a lot of Action and horror, the main Audience will be men in the age 16-25. There are many reasons for this firstly, because the music men in this age range like is hard rock or metal and this is the music that is frequently played in this type of film genre an example of this is the films of Rob Zombie such as House of a 1000 corpses which features lots of heavy metal, blood, carnage and horror..
The Second reason could be when men in this age are in relations ships, they bring their girl friends in those movies to be a kind of hero. Like the stereotype is saying.
Another reason is that men in this age are studying like GCSE, A levels or university they see the cinema as a freedom and because they would not watch romantic comedy they are going to watch horror movies.
The classes they are in are often working or lower middle class these are general people which are going to watch a movie in the cinema. This is because they have the most disposable income in this age range as they have very little in the way of outgoings such as mortgages as most of them are still studying or living at home with their parents.
The Second reason could be when men in this age are in relations ships, they bring their girl friends in those movies to be a kind of hero. Like the stereotype is saying.
Another reason is that men in this age are studying like GCSE, A levels or university they see the cinema as a freedom and because they would not watch romantic comedy they are going to watch horror movies.
The classes they are in are often working or lower middle class these are general people which are going to watch a movie in the cinema. This is because they have the most disposable income in this age range as they have very little in the way of outgoings such as mortgages as most of them are still studying or living at home with their parents.
Task 7 - Preliminary task
In our preliminary task they told us exactly what to do; they gave us the storyline and text to it. Also told us how to use the camera and which camera shots we should do like over the shoulder or close-up. Different was our Thriller shoot we did everything alone like Storyboard, text to it and choose the camera shots we wanted to do.
Our Storyboard didn’t fit anymore in our new idea, so we worked without and it actually worked very well. On the beginning of the day we got all the props like pens, a chair and a table. Our set was already there a small room with a glass wall on one side. We got our actors dressed and gave them make-up, for example we made from the young girl the eyes darker and the face whiter so she looks scary and mysterious. We wanted to shoot all our shots in the day and any extras we could fit in. The first issue was in the studio itself, we thought the set would be a lot bigger to allow us to take the wide shot but we hat to change our wide shots into bird-eye-views so that it could become our established shot The other big problem was the amount of time we had was the amount of time we had in the day to do all the shots.
In our preliminary task we were told to do over the shoulder, close-up, wide shot and medium shots. And we were told what kind of story to shoot. Whereas in the main task we developed our narrative from scratch, we had to think about how we wanted to tell a story, we had a storyboard which involved text, storyline and camera shots. First we had another idea and did already the storyboard for it. The idea was about a man who killed women to get his wife back, on the end he killed his little daughter because he thought his wife is in her. Still the pentagram played a big story which is still like this in our new story. Which is about a young girl who is has the devil in her, and a police man keeps her in his office. The whole time she is drawing this pentagram and on the end other police men are finding out that she wants to tell where the danger is in different cities. We found it much harder to come up with our own idea rather than the preliminary task which was given to us.
In our preliminary task we just used the basic shots rather in ours were we did much more difficult shots. An example is our fist shot from birds-eye.
Also a big difference was the sound; in our preliminary task we didn’t used sound at all while in our main one we used dark music on the end to make it more interesting. We had a problem with our ambient sound because there was a loud high-pitched tone throughout the filming, but we didn’t realized that we could get rid of that sound during we edited.
Actually we learned a lot during the whole process of filming for example how to edit and how to put sound into it.
Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Film companies
Eagle-Lion Films
Eagle-Lion Films was a British film production company owned by J. Arthur Rank intended to release British productions in the United States. In 1947 it acquired PRC Pictures, a small American production company, to produce B Pictures to accompany the British releases. The studio became one of the most respected makers of B-movies on what was known as Hollywood's "Poverty Row." Eagle-Lion was also a film distribution company under the name of Eagle-Lion Distributors Limited in the United Kingdom and Eagle-Lion Films Inc. in the United States. The relatively small film lot was located at 7950 Santa Monica Boulevard, and has long since been demolished.
From 1946-1949 Eagle-Lion was under the control of Arthur Krim who in addition to releasing films by Rank and David O. Selznick produced his own B-movies as support. In 1951 Krim was offered the leadership of United Artists to improve their fortunes.[1]
Eagle-Lion had acquired the film studio of PRC who had acquired the building from Grand National Pictures that ceased in 1939. In 1954 Frederick Ziv bought the studio for his Ziv Television Programs.
Hammer Film Productions
Hammer Film Productions is a film production company based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1934, the company is best known for a series of Gothic "Hammer Horror" films made from the mid-1950s until the 1970s. Hammer also produced science fiction, thrillers, film Noir, and comedies – and in later years, television series. Hammer films had low budgets, but nonetheless appeared lavish, making use of quality British actors and cleverly designed sets. During its most successful years, Hammer dominated the horror film market, enjoying worldwide distribution and considerable financial success. This success was due, in part, to distribution partnerships with major United States studios, such as Warner Bros.
During the late 1960s and 1970s the saturation of the horror film market by competitors and the loss of American funding forced changes to the previously lucrative Hammer-formula, with varying degrees of success. The company eventually ceased production in the mid-1980s and since then has remained in effective hibernation. But in 2000 the studio announced plans to begin making films again after it was bought by a consortium including advertising executive and art collector Charles Saatchi, but no films have been produced. In May 2007, the company behind the movies was sold again, this time to a group headed by Big Brother creator John de Mol. At least $50m (£25m) will be spent on new horror films after Hammer Film Productions was sold to Dutch consortium Cyrte Investments. The new owners have also acquired the Hammer group's film library.
The term "Hammer Horror" is often used generically to refer to other films of the period made in a similar style by different companies, such as Eros Films, Amicus and Tigon.
Denham Film Studios
Denham Film Studios were a British film production studio operating from 1936 to 1952.
The studios were founded by Alexander Korda, on a 165 acre (668,000 m²) site near the village of Denham, Buckinghamshire. At the time it was the largest facility of its kind in the UK. It was eventually merged with Rank's Pinewood Studios, and was closed in 1952.
The studios were known by various names during their lifetime including London Film Studios, the home of Korda's London Films, and D&P Studios after the merger with Pinewood.
In the 1960s and 70s Rank Xerox occupied the Art Deco office buildings and used most of the sound stages as warehouses.
The site has subsequently been demolished.
Davis Entertainment
Davis Entertainment is an American independent film production company, founded by John Davis in 1985.
Sands Films
Sands Films is a small British film production company, founded by producer Richard Goodwin and director Christine Edzard in the early 1970's, and based in Rotherhithe, London. The company is particularly noted for its production of costumes for period dramas. It also has a picture library.
Notable productions for which the company has produced costumes include all the Agatha Christie films produced by EMI (including Death On The Nile)[1] , Vanity Fair (2004), The Phantom of the Opera (2004), Fingersmith (2005), or Pride & Prejudice (2005)[2]
The building that Sands Films occupies is a former granary, now a grade II listed building. Since 1976, it houses a small film stage, film theatre, picture library, workshops and costume stores.
Eagle-Lion Films was a British film production company owned by J. Arthur Rank intended to release British productions in the United States. In 1947 it acquired PRC Pictures, a small American production company, to produce B Pictures to accompany the British releases. The studio became one of the most respected makers of B-movies on what was known as Hollywood's "Poverty Row." Eagle-Lion was also a film distribution company under the name of Eagle-Lion Distributors Limited in the United Kingdom and Eagle-Lion Films Inc. in the United States. The relatively small film lot was located at 7950 Santa Monica Boulevard, and has long since been demolished.
From 1946-1949 Eagle-Lion was under the control of Arthur Krim who in addition to releasing films by Rank and David O. Selznick produced his own B-movies as support. In 1951 Krim was offered the leadership of United Artists to improve their fortunes.[1]
Eagle-Lion had acquired the film studio of PRC who had acquired the building from Grand National Pictures that ceased in 1939. In 1954 Frederick Ziv bought the studio for his Ziv Television Programs.
Hammer Film Productions
Hammer Film Productions is a film production company based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1934, the company is best known for a series of Gothic "Hammer Horror" films made from the mid-1950s until the 1970s. Hammer also produced science fiction, thrillers, film Noir, and comedies – and in later years, television series. Hammer films had low budgets, but nonetheless appeared lavish, making use of quality British actors and cleverly designed sets. During its most successful years, Hammer dominated the horror film market, enjoying worldwide distribution and considerable financial success. This success was due, in part, to distribution partnerships with major United States studios, such as Warner Bros.
During the late 1960s and 1970s the saturation of the horror film market by competitors and the loss of American funding forced changes to the previously lucrative Hammer-formula, with varying degrees of success. The company eventually ceased production in the mid-1980s and since then has remained in effective hibernation. But in 2000 the studio announced plans to begin making films again after it was bought by a consortium including advertising executive and art collector Charles Saatchi, but no films have been produced. In May 2007, the company behind the movies was sold again, this time to a group headed by Big Brother creator John de Mol. At least $50m (£25m) will be spent on new horror films after Hammer Film Productions was sold to Dutch consortium Cyrte Investments. The new owners have also acquired the Hammer group's film library.
The term "Hammer Horror" is often used generically to refer to other films of the period made in a similar style by different companies, such as Eros Films, Amicus and Tigon.
Denham Film Studios
Denham Film Studios were a British film production studio operating from 1936 to 1952.
The studios were founded by Alexander Korda, on a 165 acre (668,000 m²) site near the village of Denham, Buckinghamshire. At the time it was the largest facility of its kind in the UK. It was eventually merged with Rank's Pinewood Studios, and was closed in 1952.
The studios were known by various names during their lifetime including London Film Studios, the home of Korda's London Films, and D&P Studios after the merger with Pinewood.
In the 1960s and 70s Rank Xerox occupied the Art Deco office buildings and used most of the sound stages as warehouses.
The site has subsequently been demolished.
Davis Entertainment
Davis Entertainment is an American independent film production company, founded by John Davis in 1985.
Sands Films
Sands Films is a small British film production company, founded by producer Richard Goodwin and director Christine Edzard in the early 1970's, and based in Rotherhithe, London. The company is particularly noted for its production of costumes for period dramas. It also has a picture library.
Notable productions for which the company has produced costumes include all the Agatha Christie films produced by EMI (including Death On The Nile)[1] , Vanity Fair (2004), The Phantom of the Opera (2004), Fingersmith (2005), or Pride & Prejudice (2005)[2]
The building that Sands Films occupies is a former granary, now a grade II listed building. Since 1976, it houses a small film stage, film theatre, picture library, workshops and costume stores.
Fox Searchlight
Fox Searchlight
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Type: Subsidiary
Founded: Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA (1994)
Headquarters: Century City, Los Angeles, California, United States
Key people: Peter Rice, President. Stephen A. Gilula, COO. Nancy Utley, COO
Industry: Entertainment
Products: Motions pictures
Parent: 20th Century Fox
Fox Searchlight Pictures is a film division of 20th Century Fox, established in 1994. It specialises in indie and British films, alongside dramedy and horror as well as non-English language films, and is variously involved with the production and/or distribution of these films.
In the early-to-mid 1980s, prior to the creation of Searchlight, Fox previously released independent films under the banner of 20th Century-Fox International Classics; the most notable of the releases under this banner include Bill Cosby: Himself, Reuben, Reuben, and Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
In 2006, a sub-label, Fox Atomic, was created to produce and/or distribute genre films. Its first release was Turistas. Fox Atomic closed down in 2009.
As is the case with Fox's television unit, all copyright notices of programming produced by a Fox-related company (with some exceptions) read "© (respective year) Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation".
Fox Searchlight's Slumdog Millionaire won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 81st Academy Awards as well as a further 7 academy awards. Other Fox Searchlight films receiving Best Picture nominations include The Full Monty, Sideways, Little Miss Sunshine and Juno.
Notable films
1990s
The Brothers McMullen (1995)
Looking for Richard (1996)
Girl 6 (1996)
The Full Monty (1997)
Smilla's Sense of Snow (film) (1997)
Shooting Fish (1997, produced by Winchester Films)
The Ice Storm (1997, co-production with Good Machine and Canal+)
Slums of Beverly Hills (1998)
Two Girls and a Guy (1998, co-production with 20th Century Fox)
Waking Ned Devine (1998, co-production with Isle of Man Film and Canal+)
Boys Don't Cry (1999)
Titus (1999)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999, co-production with Regency Enterprises)
2000
Woman on Top (2000)
Quills (2000)
Sexy Beast (2000)
Bootmen (2000)
2001
Super Troopers (2001)
Waking Life (2001)
Kissing Jessica Stein (2001)
2002
Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
The Good Girl (2002)
One Hour Photo (2002)
28 Days Later (2002)
Being Vincent (2002)
In America (2002)
2003
Garage Days (2003)
Le Divorce (2003)
Thirteen (2003, co-production with Working Title Films)
The Dreamers (2003, co-production with Recorded Picture Company)
Antwone Fisher (2003)
2004
Johnson Family Vacation (2004)
Club Dread (2004)
Never Die Alone (2004)
Napoleon Dynamite (2004, with Paramount Pictures and MTV Films)
I ♥ Huckabees (2004)
Garden State (2004, with Miramax Films)
Kinsey (2004, co-production with American Zoetrope)
Melinda and Melinda (2004)
Sideways (2004)
The Clearing (2004)
2005
Roll Bounce (2005)
Bee Season (2005)
The Ringer (2005)
Millions (2005) (co-production with BBC Films and Pathé)
Imagine Me & You (2005)
2006
Water (2006)
Night Watch (2006)
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
Thank You for Smoking (2006)
Phat Girlz (2006)
Confetti (2006)
Fast Food Nation (2006) (co-production with Recorded Picture Company, Hanway Films, Participant Productions, and BBC Films)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
The Last King of Scotland (2006) (co-production with DNA Films and FilmFour Productions)
The History Boys (2006)
Notes on a Scandal (2006) (co-production with DNA Films and BBC Films)
2007
I Think I Love My Wife (2007)
Sunshine (2007)
The Namesake (2007)
Waitress
Day Watch
Once (2007, co-production with Summit Entertainment and the Irish Film Board)
Joshua (2007)
The Darjeeling Limited
Juno
The Savages (2007)
2008
La Misma Luna (Under the Same Moon) (co-production with The Weinstein Company)
Young@Heart
Choke
Street Kings
The Wrestler (co-production with Wild Bunch)
The Secret Life of Bees
Slumdog Millionaire* (co-production with Warner Bros. Pictures, Pathé, Film4, and Celador Films)
2009
Notorious
My Life in Ruins[2]
Gentlemen Broncos
Miss March
Amelia
(500) Days of Summer
Adam
Post Grad (with 20th Century Fox and co-production with The Montecito Picture Company and Cold Spring Pictures)
Whip It!
Crazy Heart
2010
My Name Is Khan (Releasing on February 12, 2010, with 20th Century Fox and co-produced with Dharma Productions and Red Chillies Entertainment)
Our Family Wedding (Releasing on March 12, 2010, with 20th Century Fox
Arrested Development: The Movie (In Pre-Production, co-production with Imagine Entertainment)
127 hours (In pre-production, co-production with Pathé)
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Type: Subsidiary
Founded: Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA (1994)
Headquarters: Century City, Los Angeles, California, United States
Key people: Peter Rice, President. Stephen A. Gilula, COO. Nancy Utley, COO
Industry: Entertainment
Products: Motions pictures
Parent: 20th Century Fox
Fox Searchlight Pictures is a film division of 20th Century Fox, established in 1994. It specialises in indie and British films, alongside dramedy and horror as well as non-English language films, and is variously involved with the production and/or distribution of these films.
In the early-to-mid 1980s, prior to the creation of Searchlight, Fox previously released independent films under the banner of 20th Century-Fox International Classics; the most notable of the releases under this banner include Bill Cosby: Himself, Reuben, Reuben, and Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
In 2006, a sub-label, Fox Atomic, was created to produce and/or distribute genre films. Its first release was Turistas. Fox Atomic closed down in 2009.
As is the case with Fox's television unit, all copyright notices of programming produced by a Fox-related company (with some exceptions) read "© (respective year) Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation".
Fox Searchlight's Slumdog Millionaire won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 81st Academy Awards as well as a further 7 academy awards. Other Fox Searchlight films receiving Best Picture nominations include The Full Monty, Sideways, Little Miss Sunshine and Juno.
Notable films
1990s
The Brothers McMullen (1995)
Looking for Richard (1996)
Girl 6 (1996)
The Full Monty (1997)
Smilla's Sense of Snow (film) (1997)
Shooting Fish (1997, produced by Winchester Films)
The Ice Storm (1997, co-production with Good Machine and Canal+)
Slums of Beverly Hills (1998)
Two Girls and a Guy (1998, co-production with 20th Century Fox)
Waking Ned Devine (1998, co-production with Isle of Man Film and Canal+)
Boys Don't Cry (1999)
Titus (1999)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999, co-production with Regency Enterprises)
2000
Woman on Top (2000)
Quills (2000)
Sexy Beast (2000)
Bootmen (2000)
2001
Super Troopers (2001)
Waking Life (2001)
Kissing Jessica Stein (2001)
2002
Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
The Good Girl (2002)
One Hour Photo (2002)
28 Days Later (2002)
Being Vincent (2002)
In America (2002)
2003
Garage Days (2003)
Le Divorce (2003)
Thirteen (2003, co-production with Working Title Films)
The Dreamers (2003, co-production with Recorded Picture Company)
Antwone Fisher (2003)
2004
Johnson Family Vacation (2004)
Club Dread (2004)
Never Die Alone (2004)
Napoleon Dynamite (2004, with Paramount Pictures and MTV Films)
I ♥ Huckabees (2004)
Garden State (2004, with Miramax Films)
Kinsey (2004, co-production with American Zoetrope)
Melinda and Melinda (2004)
Sideways (2004)
The Clearing (2004)
2005
Roll Bounce (2005)
Bee Season (2005)
The Ringer (2005)
Millions (2005) (co-production with BBC Films and Pathé)
Imagine Me & You (2005)
2006
Water (2006)
Night Watch (2006)
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
Thank You for Smoking (2006)
Phat Girlz (2006)
Confetti (2006)
Fast Food Nation (2006) (co-production with Recorded Picture Company, Hanway Films, Participant Productions, and BBC Films)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
The Last King of Scotland (2006) (co-production with DNA Films and FilmFour Productions)
The History Boys (2006)
Notes on a Scandal (2006) (co-production with DNA Films and BBC Films)
2007
I Think I Love My Wife (2007)
Sunshine (2007)
The Namesake (2007)
Waitress
Day Watch
Once (2007, co-production with Summit Entertainment and the Irish Film Board)
Joshua (2007)
The Darjeeling Limited
Juno
The Savages (2007)
2008
La Misma Luna (Under the Same Moon) (co-production with The Weinstein Company)
Young@Heart
Choke
Street Kings
The Wrestler (co-production with Wild Bunch)
The Secret Life of Bees
Slumdog Millionaire* (co-production with Warner Bros. Pictures, Pathé, Film4, and Celador Films)
2009
Notorious
My Life in Ruins[2]
Gentlemen Broncos
Miss March
Amelia
(500) Days of Summer
Adam
Post Grad (with 20th Century Fox and co-production with The Montecito Picture Company and Cold Spring Pictures)
Whip It!
Crazy Heart
2010
My Name Is Khan (Releasing on February 12, 2010, with 20th Century Fox and co-produced with Dharma Productions and Red Chillies Entertainment)
Our Family Wedding (Releasing on March 12, 2010, with 20th Century Fox
Arrested Development: The Movie (In Pre-Production, co-production with Imagine Entertainment)
127 hours (In pre-production, co-production with Pathé)
Links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu3TtPraRgQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QK67UMNRMU
Institutions and Audience
Media Prep by Emma Solms
Media Institutions and Audiences
B:
Media Institutions are an organisation that provide media content and supply the context within which media products are produced e.g. the BBC or News international.
Also involved are Companies/Organisations which represent the process of production, distribution and marketing.
For example ‘20th Century Fox’ is an American film Production and involve everything of a Media Institution.
A:
I would use for our Thriller ‘Five’ the Hammer Film Production because it is one of the biggest British Film companies and based on thrillers. Also because they are really professional and if I would do a movie a want he to get popular and for that ‘Hammer’ is one of the best companies.
Hammer is founded in 1934. During the late 1960s and 1970s the saturation of the horror film market by competitors and the loss of American funding forced changes to the previously lucrative Hammer-formula, with varying degrees of success. The company eventually ceased production in the mid-1980s and since then has remained in effective hibernation. But in 2000 the studio announced plans to begin making films again after it was bought by a consortium including advertising executive and art collector Charles Saatchi, but no films have been produced. In May 2007, the company behind the movies was sold again, this time to a group headed by Big Brother creator John de Mol, the Dutch consortium Cyrte Investments, who have announced plans to spend some $50m (£25m) on new horror films. The new owners have also acquired the Hammer group's film library.
C:
People from the age 15+ (31). Not younger because the movie is only allowed for people which are minimum 15 years old, to scary. Because our movie is not a ‘Teenager’ movie also people until 32 could watch it.
Media Institutions and Audiences
B:
Media Institutions are an organisation that provide media content and supply the context within which media products are produced e.g. the BBC or News international.
Also involved are Companies/Organisations which represent the process of production, distribution and marketing.
For example ‘20th Century Fox’ is an American film Production and involve everything of a Media Institution.
A:
I would use for our Thriller ‘Five’ the Hammer Film Production because it is one of the biggest British Film companies and based on thrillers. Also because they are really professional and if I would do a movie a want he to get popular and for that ‘Hammer’ is one of the best companies.
Hammer is founded in 1934. During the late 1960s and 1970s the saturation of the horror film market by competitors and the loss of American funding forced changes to the previously lucrative Hammer-formula, with varying degrees of success. The company eventually ceased production in the mid-1980s and since then has remained in effective hibernation. But in 2000 the studio announced plans to begin making films again after it was bought by a consortium including advertising executive and art collector Charles Saatchi, but no films have been produced. In May 2007, the company behind the movies was sold again, this time to a group headed by Big Brother creator John de Mol, the Dutch consortium Cyrte Investments, who have announced plans to spend some $50m (£25m) on new horror films. The new owners have also acquired the Hammer group's film library.
C:
People from the age 15+ (31). Not younger because the movie is only allowed for people which are minimum 15 years old, to scary. Because our movie is not a ‘Teenager’ movie also people until 32 could watch it.
Sunday, 21 March 2010
Evaluation of our post production
Our Thriller was slow paced, to make it more scary and interesting. This represents also the genre of other horror movies. They always slow so you get the shock at the end.
In our Thriller we used realistic sound through the whole film, for example you can hear when Russel is holding the paper. Only at the end there is coming this scary music to make it more interesting. The music is coming when the young Girl is standing up.
Our title fits directly to our story, the title is ‘Five’, and the young man is telling the police man that on five different places bombs.
We did the choice to use some music at the end because it is actually in almost very horror movie like this. Also we did the choice to keep the talking simple so you can be interested more on the actors and what is happening.
In our Thriller we used realistic sound through the whole film, for example you can hear when Russel is holding the paper. Only at the end there is coming this scary music to make it more interesting. The music is coming when the young Girl is standing up.
Our title fits directly to our story, the title is ‘Five’, and the young man is telling the police man that on five different places bombs.
We did the choice to use some music at the end because it is actually in almost very horror movie like this. Also we did the choice to keep the talking simple so you can be interested more on the actors and what is happening.
Audience feedback
Our audience really liked our Thriller, they saying that it is good edited and that they like that it is realistic. Also they liked the sound which is also realistic. They said that they wanted to see more to watch was is happening next so it is also interesting.
They also said something about the mirror that is worked very well and that they liked the reflections. They also liked all the actors we have chosen especially the young Girl, Lou. They also say that they liked the whole idea, the storyline. All in all we had a very good feedback.
They also said something about the mirror that is worked very well and that they liked the reflections. They also liked all the actors we have chosen especially the young Girl, Lou. They also say that they liked the whole idea, the storyline. All in all we had a very good feedback.
Thursday, 21 January 2010
Roles and Responsibilities
Roles and Responsibilities
Producer – Lotttie Avery
Directors – Emma Solms
Editor – Shahla Dowley
Producer – Lotttie Avery
Directors – Emma Solms
Editor – Shahla Dowley
Costume List
Costume List
3 Black Suit Jackets - because they should look higher status and important
3 Blue Denim Jeans - jeans because they should not wear a whole suit so you can see that they three are not the important ones like the other police man.l
1 Full Black Suit - for the main police man. So you can see that he is the important one of all. That is why he is wearing a full black suit and the others only a suiy jacket but jeans.
Colourful Skirt - so the girl looks a bit messy, and that she had a hard time behind her
Vest Top - For the girl, again so she looks a bi untidy
3 Black Suit Jackets - because they should look higher status and important
3 Blue Denim Jeans - jeans because they should not wear a whole suit so you can see that they three are not the important ones like the other police man.l
1 Full Black Suit - for the main police man. So you can see that he is the important one of all. That is why he is wearing a full black suit and the others only a suiy jacket but jeans.
Colourful Skirt - so the girl looks a bit messy, and that she had a hard time behind her
Vest Top - For the girl, again so she looks a bi untidy
Equipment list
Equipment List
This is a list of equipment that we will be using on our shoot day-
1 x Sony PDR 170 Min DV Cam (Plus 2x Batteries)
2 x Mini DV Cam Tape Stock
1 x XLR
1 x Boom Pole
1 x Sennheiser Directional Microphone
2 x Red Head Video Lights ad Tripods
1 x Fluid Head Tripod (inc. horseshoe)
2 x AA Batteries
1 x Suspension Unit
1 x Rycote Softie - This are all equioments which we need behind the camera.
This is a list of equipment that we will be using on our shoot day-
1 x Sony PDR 170 Min DV Cam (Plus 2x Batteries)
2 x Mini DV Cam Tape Stock
1 x XLR
1 x Boom Pole
1 x Sennheiser Directional Microphone
2 x Red Head Video Lights ad Tripods
1 x Fluid Head Tripod (inc. horseshoe)
2 x AA Batteries
1 x Suspension Unit
1 x Rycote Softie - This are all equioments which we need behind the camera.
Probs List
Paranormal Productions
Props List
Provider
Table - where the young girl can sit one
School
School Source
Chair (Simon’s room) - a big one so the office seems important
School
School Source
Mirror/Perspex
School
School Source
Paper/Card
School
Art Department
Pencil / pens - the yong girl can write with
Department
Costumes
-- Black Suits
School
Drama Department
-- Jeans and Top
Lydia
Lydia
Make-up
Crew
We have chosen simplistic and naturalistic props firstly to save us money and because we thought it would be more effective and so that the audience would concentrate on the story and the action of the scene. All costumes are black or white. We are going to dress our interrogator in a black suit with a white shirt so that he looks like an official and the colours show good and evil. This could give the audience mixed messages about whether he is a 'good guy' or a 'bad guy'. We are going to dress the young girl in all black to represent her dark and mysterious character.
Shooting Schedule
Shooting Schedule
Location
Studio 9am-3pm
Actors
Russell, Alex Roberts, JJ Benzimra, Tom Warhurst, Lou Strenger
Morning
9am-11am
Setting Up, Preparing the studio
The Studio
Mid Morning
11am-12.30am
First-Sixth Scene
The Studio
12.30-1.00pm
Lunch
Canteen
Early Afternoon
1.00pm-2.00pm
Scene Seven-Ten
The Studio
Afternoon
2.00pm-3.00pm
Scene Eleven-Seventeen
The Studio
Location
Studio 9am-3pm
Actors
Russell, Alex Roberts, JJ Benzimra, Tom Warhurst, Lou Strenger
Morning
9am-11am
Setting Up, Preparing the studio
The Studio
Mid Morning
11am-12.30am
First-Sixth Scene
The Studio
12.30-1.00pm
Lunch
Canteen
Early Afternoon
1.00pm-2.00pm
Scene Seven-Ten
The Studio
Afternoon
2.00pm-3.00pm
Scene Eleven-Seventeen
The Studio
Shots - Five
Shot 1: CU of Lydia looking down and suddenly looks at the camera. (As she looks at the camera her irises turn red and her face pale.) FADE TO BLACK Shot 2: WS/OTS establishing the room with Lydia drawing and John, a Government Man on the desk, watching Lydia drawing. ZOOMING Shot 3: Zooming in to a MS of Lydia and John on the desk. CUT TO Shot 4: Montage Sequence Shot 5: ECU of Lydia’s’ Hand frantically drawing. Shot 6: Low Angle MS with Lydia’s face but focusing on John and his reactions.
Shot 7: MS of just Lydia staring into the camera. Eyes red face pale. But still drawingShot 8: ECU of Lydia’s red eyes and pale faces.
Shot 9: WS of the interrogation room. Shot 10: ECU of Lydia’s hand frantically drawing (repeat of shot 5) Shot 11: MS of Lydia staring into the camera, her eyes are no longer red, her skin is no longer pale, and she has stopped drawing. She is shaking looking scared, she drops the pen. END OF MONTAGE Shot 12: Low angle MS from in front of the table of John taking the piece of paper out from under Lydia, who is lying face down on it, and looking at it for a few seconds, as he looks at it his eyes turn red. FADE TO BLACK Shot 13: OTS from Lydia watching John walking towards the glass. CUT TO Shot 14: OTS from the government watching John walking towards them. Shot 15: OTS from the government of John placing the paper on the glass. Through a Tannoy system. Government: “So 5 days, 5 places, 5 explosions?” John: “Yeah.” FADE TO BLACK Shot 16: ECU of Lydia’s eyes turning red and her face pale. CUT TO Shot 17: CU of the paper with Lydia’s Drawing burning from the middle out. END
Shot 7: MS of just Lydia staring into the camera. Eyes red face pale. But still drawingShot 8: ECU of Lydia’s red eyes and pale faces.
Shot 9: WS of the interrogation room. Shot 10: ECU of Lydia’s hand frantically drawing (repeat of shot 5) Shot 11: MS of Lydia staring into the camera, her eyes are no longer red, her skin is no longer pale, and she has stopped drawing. She is shaking looking scared, she drops the pen. END OF MONTAGE Shot 12: Low angle MS from in front of the table of John taking the piece of paper out from under Lydia, who is lying face down on it, and looking at it for a few seconds, as he looks at it his eyes turn red. FADE TO BLACK Shot 13: OTS from Lydia watching John walking towards the glass. CUT TO Shot 14: OTS from the government watching John walking towards them. Shot 15: OTS from the government of John placing the paper on the glass. Through a Tannoy system. Government: “So 5 days, 5 places, 5 explosions?” John: “Yeah.” FADE TO BLACK Shot 16: ECU of Lydia’s eyes turning red and her face pale. CUT TO Shot 17: CU of the paper with Lydia’s Drawing burning from the middle out. END
Treatment - Five
Treatment
ACT ONE
In the interrogation room Lydia an innocent 10 year-old girl i9s sitting at a table. Suddenly she looks up and her eyes grow red and redder. She is being possessed. She is staring into space and she slowly picks up a pen and begins to draw frantically. Lydia’s face becomes pale and ghostly while she is drawing. John, a forty year old well built official from MI5 is sitting on the edge of the table looking over Lydia’s shoulder.
Lydia’s drawing begins to slow. There is a loud noise as she collapses on the table. Red begins to fade in her eyes and her face regains colour. John then slides out the drawing from under her and as he looks at the image his eyes flash red.
He walks over to a “mirror” fixed within one of the walls, and pushes the image against the screen. A deep masculine voice is heard over a tannoy system “So, 5 days, 5 place, 5 explosions?” John replies “Yep”.
ACT TWO
Behind the glass a group of people begin to rush quickly around, they are all in uniforms. John leaves the interrogation room and enters behind the glass. He says “Smith you and your team go to locations 1, 3 and 5, and Drew you and your team go to locations 2 and 4.” He says with confidence. The team leaves.
John is left alone behind the glass with his write hand man Bob, the room is silent and then through a speaker they hear Lydia’s weak and pathetic voice “You.” They turn and she is pointing towards Bob.
ACT THREE
Lydia picks up the pen and starts to draw again with the pen, but there is no paper, she is scratching into the table. John comes back into the room and knocks the table over so that you can see the image from behind the glass. It is another drawing of the pentagram, yet this time it has Bob’s initials in the centre. There is a crackle as the table starts to burn from the centre of the pentagram the fire builds in intensity.
ACT ONE
In the interrogation room Lydia an innocent 10 year-old girl i9s sitting at a table. Suddenly she looks up and her eyes grow red and redder. She is being possessed. She is staring into space and she slowly picks up a pen and begins to draw frantically. Lydia’s face becomes pale and ghostly while she is drawing. John, a forty year old well built official from MI5 is sitting on the edge of the table looking over Lydia’s shoulder.
Lydia’s drawing begins to slow. There is a loud noise as she collapses on the table. Red begins to fade in her eyes and her face regains colour. John then slides out the drawing from under her and as he looks at the image his eyes flash red.
He walks over to a “mirror” fixed within one of the walls, and pushes the image against the screen. A deep masculine voice is heard over a tannoy system “So, 5 days, 5 place, 5 explosions?” John replies “Yep”.
ACT TWO
Behind the glass a group of people begin to rush quickly around, they are all in uniforms. John leaves the interrogation room and enters behind the glass. He says “Smith you and your team go to locations 1, 3 and 5, and Drew you and your team go to locations 2 and 4.” He says with confidence. The team leaves.
John is left alone behind the glass with his write hand man Bob, the room is silent and then through a speaker they hear Lydia’s weak and pathetic voice “You.” They turn and she is pointing towards Bob.
ACT THREE
Lydia picks up the pen and starts to draw again with the pen, but there is no paper, she is scratching into the table. John comes back into the room and knocks the table over so that you can see the image from behind the glass. It is another drawing of the pentagram, yet this time it has Bob’s initials in the centre. There is a crackle as the table starts to burn from the centre of the pentagram the fire builds in intensity.
Five - finalised idea
a) 1. INT. ITERROGATION ROOM. EVENING
b) An innocent 10 year-old girl, called LYDIA is sitting at a table. Suddenly she looks up and her eyes grow red and redder. She is being possessed. She is staring into space and she slowly picks up a pen and begins to draw frantically. Lydia’s face becomes pale and ghostly while she is drawing.
c) JOHN, a forty year old well built official from MI5 is sitting on the edge of the table looking over Lydia’s shoulder.
d) Lydia’s drawing begins to slow. There is a loud noise as she collapses on the table. Red begins to fade in her eyes and her face regains colour. John then slides out the drawing from under her and as he looks at the image his eyes flash red.
e) He walks over to a “mirror” fixed within one of the walls, and pushes the image against the screen. A deep masculine voice is heard over a tannoy system
THE GOVERNMENT
“So, 5 days, 5 places, 5 explosions?”
JOHN REPLIES
“Yep”.
b) An innocent 10 year-old girl, called LYDIA is sitting at a table. Suddenly she looks up and her eyes grow red and redder. She is being possessed. She is staring into space and she slowly picks up a pen and begins to draw frantically. Lydia’s face becomes pale and ghostly while she is drawing.
c) JOHN, a forty year old well built official from MI5 is sitting on the edge of the table looking over Lydia’s shoulder.
d) Lydia’s drawing begins to slow. There is a loud noise as she collapses on the table. Red begins to fade in her eyes and her face regains colour. John then slides out the drawing from under her and as he looks at the image his eyes flash red.
e) He walks over to a “mirror” fixed within one of the walls, and pushes the image against the screen. A deep masculine voice is heard over a tannoy system
THE GOVERNMENT
“So, 5 days, 5 places, 5 explosions?”
JOHN REPLIES
“Yep”.
Tuesday, 5 January 2010
Process of Storyboarding
Process of storyboarding
This week, we began the process of creating our storyboard, which would assist us in creating a logical order for shooting. We had to finalise our main idea, and then began to create specific shots and construct each shot. A storyboard is designed to provide an accurate technical account of all aspects of sound and vision and to act as a guide for the crew on shoot, and to assist the editor in constructing the time line. Our story board provides specific details of - Location- Shot/Movement- Sound- Lighting- Edit Transition- TimingWe then work out the finally story, the elements of it, and the order in which it would go. We then wrote up a draft of the order in which each shot would go, had it reviewed by our teacher and then could go on. We split the shots between our group, and used the template provided to start filling in the story board. This was then printed off so we could draw the pictures on it, to show the action and what is happening in the shot.These are our Shots• Point of view – First tarot card is revealed with first credits.• Extreme Close-up – Ryan’s hand drawing chalk line on the floor.• Extreme Close-up – Dead woman’s face, with her eyes covered in a blindfold.• Extreme Close-up – Ryan’s hand placing a candle, it then lights itself. • Point of view – Second tarot card is revealed with next credits. • Wide Shot – Amber peering round top of the stairs and starts to walk the first few stairs.• Point of view – through handheld, Amber walking down the stairs and opens the door to the basement. • Point of view – Third tarot card is revealed with next credits. • Wide Shot - Basement, dark room with candle, bodies and a vague shape on the floor. • Wide Shot – Candle in foreground and Amber entering in background, she hears heavy footsteps, and runs into the corner.• Point of view – Fourth tarot card is revealed with next credits. • Wide Shot – Silhouette of Ryan in doorway.• Wide Shot – Candle in foreground and Ryan entering in background, he starts moving towards one of the bodies. • Mid-shot (lower half of torso) – Face in foreground and heavy boots walking towards the head. They stop, and then Ryan bends down to face. • Wide Shot – Ryan reaches towards the face of the body and in the background Amber crouching in corner she shuffles to make a noise, Ryan spins.• Point of View – From Amber of Ryan spinning to look at her.• Close-Up – Amber’s reaction to his spin.• Point of view – Fifth tarot card is revealed with next credits. • Extreme Close Up – Candle goes out.• Extreme Close Up -> Wide Shot (Birds Eye View) – Reveal of pentagram.
This week, we began the process of creating our storyboard, which would assist us in creating a logical order for shooting. We had to finalise our main idea, and then began to create specific shots and construct each shot. A storyboard is designed to provide an accurate technical account of all aspects of sound and vision and to act as a guide for the crew on shoot, and to assist the editor in constructing the time line. Our story board provides specific details of - Location- Shot/Movement- Sound- Lighting- Edit Transition- TimingWe then work out the finally story, the elements of it, and the order in which it would go. We then wrote up a draft of the order in which each shot would go, had it reviewed by our teacher and then could go on. We split the shots between our group, and used the template provided to start filling in the story board. This was then printed off so we could draw the pictures on it, to show the action and what is happening in the shot.These are our Shots• Point of view – First tarot card is revealed with first credits.• Extreme Close-up – Ryan’s hand drawing chalk line on the floor.• Extreme Close-up – Dead woman’s face, with her eyes covered in a blindfold.• Extreme Close-up – Ryan’s hand placing a candle, it then lights itself. • Point of view – Second tarot card is revealed with next credits. • Wide Shot – Amber peering round top of the stairs and starts to walk the first few stairs.• Point of view – through handheld, Amber walking down the stairs and opens the door to the basement. • Point of view – Third tarot card is revealed with next credits. • Wide Shot - Basement, dark room with candle, bodies and a vague shape on the floor. • Wide Shot – Candle in foreground and Amber entering in background, she hears heavy footsteps, and runs into the corner.• Point of view – Fourth tarot card is revealed with next credits. • Wide Shot – Silhouette of Ryan in doorway.• Wide Shot – Candle in foreground and Ryan entering in background, he starts moving towards one of the bodies. • Mid-shot (lower half of torso) – Face in foreground and heavy boots walking towards the head. They stop, and then Ryan bends down to face. • Wide Shot – Ryan reaches towards the face of the body and in the background Amber crouching in corner she shuffles to make a noise, Ryan spins.• Point of View – From Amber of Ryan spinning to look at her.• Close-Up – Amber’s reaction to his spin.• Point of view – Fifth tarot card is revealed with next credits. • Extreme Close Up – Candle goes out.• Extreme Close Up -> Wide Shot (Birds Eye View) – Reveal of pentagram.
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