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Here is a post highlighting why Star Wars: The Force Awakens was such a successful movie.
Wednesday, 31 January 2018
CS INDUSTRY RESEARCH Four Lions
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Film distribution of the film Four Lions (Warp, 2010) made in the same format as the previous comparison of film distribtuion.
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Film distribution of the film Four Lions (Warp, 2010) made in the same format as the previous comparison of film distribtuion.
INDUSTRY RESEARCH les miserables
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Analysis of Les miserables, the post shows the box office, figures, age ratings, distribution facts etc.
Les miserables analysis from James Clinnick
Analysis of Les miserables, the post shows the box office, figures, age ratings, distribution facts etc.
Analysis of Les miserables, the post shows the box office, figures, age ratings, distribution facts etc.
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Analysis of Les miserables, the post shows the box office, figures, age ratings, distribution facts etc.
INDUSTRY RESEARCH Worlds end vs '71
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Analysis of a warp movie ('71) too a working titles movie (worlds end), both are low budget movies for U.S standards but in the U.K, '71 is low budget and worlds end is Mid-High budget, the post shows the box office, figures, age ratings, distribution facts etc.
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Analysis of a warp movie ('71) too a working titles movie (worlds end), both are low budget movies for U.S standards but in the U.K, '71 is low budget and worlds end is Mid-High budget, the post shows the box office, figures, age ratings, distribution facts etc.
Monday, 29 January 2018
BBFC ratings
The BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) are a trusted guide to media content and work as a independent, self-financing, not-for profit media content regulator, this means they aim to protect the public from content that may be harmful and to empower the public to make informed viewing choices
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BBFC Guidline for an 18 age rated movie
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If a movie is rated an 18 it severely reduces the reach of the film, the movie is much less likely to do well in cinemas as the most common age to go to the cinema is 15-16, this is a huge loss of market potential and will not only reduce the box office but the overall success of the film. However, the majority of slasher films will be an age 18 due to the gore and swearing, also, having an age rating of 18 for a slasher film can appeal too a slasher audience as it can suggest gore and for the movie to be scary. Because of this we are aiming our film for an age 18 certificate, also, because our film is micro-budget we are not looking for a theatrical release so the negative sides of having an 18 certificate are less prominant.
BBFC Guidlines for a 15 age rated movie
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BBFC Guidlines for a 12 age rated movie
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BBFC Guidline for an 18 age rated movie
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If a movie is rated an 18 it severely reduces the reach of the film, the movie is much less likely to do well in cinemas as the most common age to go to the cinema is 15-16, this is a huge loss of market potential and will not only reduce the box office but the overall success of the film. However, the majority of slasher films will be an age 18 due to the gore and swearing, also, having an age rating of 18 for a slasher film can appeal too a slasher audience as it can suggest gore and for the movie to be scary. Because of this we are aiming our film for an age 18 certificate, also, because our film is micro-budget we are not looking for a theatrical release so the negative sides of having an 18 certificate are less prominant.
BBFC Guidlines for a 15 age rated movie
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BBFC Guidlines for a 12 age rated movie
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Friday, 26 January 2018
Analysis of Rough cut:
Link to rough cut:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFgIpurdR_s
Things to change in next edit:
•Shorten takes to build tension
•More SFX
•Add lair scenes throughout
•Remove some shots that don't add much
Re-shoot:
•False scare
•Establishing shots
• More urgency in shots maybe some handheld
•Film more shot variety of going down stairs
•Add slashing scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFgIpurdR_s
•Positives:
•Reflect the scream queen idea
well
•The man on the TV screen is very
well done
•Attempted to cover the stalking
convention
•Attempted false scare
Negatives:
•We dislike the establishing shot and will change it to a more genre specific one.
•We need to experiment with different titles
•Improve false scare
•Stalking needs to be change and fixed
•Add cross cut with final girl in garage
•We need to shorten some cutes (clothing, going down to garage)
•Maybe include an ellipsis
Things to change in next edit:
•Shorten takes to build tension
•More SFX
•Add lair scenes throughout
•Remove some shots that don't add much
Re-shoot:
•False scare
•Establishing shots
• More urgency in shots maybe some handheld
•Film more shot variety of going down stairs
•Add slashing scene
Thursday, 25 January 2018
Re-Pitch presentation:
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Presentation showing our audience feedback and review of blog and rough cut
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Presentation showing our audience feedback and review of blog and rough cut
Wednesday, 24 January 2018
AUDIENCE FEEDBACK analysis:
Over the course of our AS Media Studies year we have received countless amounts of audience feedbackvarying from verbal, written and online feedback.
Overall they were positive, they liked a few things here and there however, the feedback we have received has been more than appreciative. I mean just look at our first few sample scenes, they are 100% different to our final cut. A recurring problem for us was trying to increase the pacing in the film openingbut in the end I think we managed pretty well. From the first rough cut to the last, the whole group thought "oh we can cut a second or two there," but had it not been for feedback saying, "This pace needs to increase dramatically," our film opening would not have been as good as it is now.
We have received feedback from ages ranging from 14-22 and have also received a bit of feedback from older adults. I admit, some of the feedback we received was vague and we couldn't really use it. However this gave us an insight as to how these people of these ages were analyzing our "media" and we could build upon that instead. This also links into Stuart Hall's preferred reading theory as, especially for the title feedback, we received a lot stating which one looked "most horror" or "most cool." when we as creators wanted the most fitting for the genre. This means the audience who analysed the title fonts applied it to the knowledge they had on slashers to choose their preferred ones. This came from our target audiencemeaning we had to take a lot of it into account when choosing the final fonts for our titles. They would not have been what they are now, if it weren't for this feedback as our group had a slight discussion about this too.
Overall they were positive, they liked a few things here and there however, the feedback we have received has been more than appreciative. I mean just look at our first few sample scenes, they are 100% different to our final cut. A recurring problem for us was trying to increase the pacing in the film openingbut in the end I think we managed pretty well. From the first rough cut to the last, the whole group thought "oh we can cut a second or two there," but had it not been for feedback saying, "This pace needs to increase dramatically," our film opening would not have been as good as it is now.
We have received feedback from ages ranging from 14-22 and have also received a bit of feedback from older adults. I admit, some of the feedback we received was vague and we couldn't really use it. However this gave us an insight as to how these people of these ages were analyzing our "media" and we could build upon that instead. This also links into Stuart Hall's preferred reading theory as, especially for the title feedback, we received a lot stating which one looked "most horror" or "most cool." when we as creators wanted the most fitting for the genre. This means the audience who analysed the title fonts applied it to the knowledge they had on slashers to choose their preferred ones. This came from our target audiencemeaning we had to take a lot of it into account when choosing the final fonts for our titles. They would not have been what they are now, if it weren't for this feedback as our group had a slight discussion about this too.
PODCAST 9: review of first cut
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Our 9th podcast, in this one we talk about our first draft for our film opening and what needs to be changed
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Our 9th podcast, in this one we talk about our first draft for our film opening and what needs to be changed
Tuesday, 23 January 2018
AUDIENCE FEEDBACK Responses
Here are some of the responses we got for Audience feedback:
Screenshots from teams:
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Filled out questionnaires:
Class-mates watching our first cut:...
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Photo of filled in audience feedback questionnaires
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Responses:
•Some oppositional reading: "Some parts were comedic...”
•This shows us our verisimilitude is not good enough as our cut is not meant to be comedic
•Santa on the screen was very effective (Some got the Jigsaw reference, Intertextuality)
•Acting could be better, verisimilitude not achieved
•Timing was a bit off
•On average people rated it a 6/10 in likability
•Everyone recommended we used eerie suspenseful music in the opening
•Many recommended violins or piano with long suspenseful notes
Sunday, 21 January 2018
Watermelon SFX
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This is a recording of us stabbing a watermelon to get the SFX for Christmas Sleigher, we did it this way because we learnt that Alfred Hitchcock used different types of melons to get his SFX for the Psycho stabbing scene.
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This is a recording of us stabbing a watermelon to get the SFX for Christmas Sleigher, we did it this way because we learnt that Alfred Hitchcock used different types of melons to get his SFX for the Psycho stabbing scene.
Saturday, 20 January 2018
The distribution of a micro-budget film:
Many movies made find it incredibly difficult to get any theatrical distribution, especially horror movies. Most films go straight to video and don't make it to cinema if they are able to get distribution at all. This is mostly because largely it is a low budget genre and therefore contains a lot less stars so finds it harder to get distributors to give them money. However there are many examples of lower end budget movies that were able to do well at the box office such as halloween or paranormal activity.
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Traditional Method for finding Distribution:
The best way film makers can get there films distributed by a noted distribution company is through film festivals, by getting noticed at a film festival and being successful at a festival will usually result in signing with a distributor, by signing with a distributor it may result in getting a screening of the film in a cinema, the reason this is still so vital is because it will result in a newspaper review, with a good review in a noted newspaper it is likely that more viewers are attracted too the screening leaving you with extra screening time.
A great example of this is Corrie (Coz) Greenop who took a huge financial risk too attend Cannes film festival, a hugely prestigious and recognised festival and also a select number of arranged London screenings, this gamble paid off and resulted in distribution deals for DVD releases, this has left Coz in talks with production companies about making movies with higher budgets.
These are the top 10 distributors from 2017:
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Self Distribution:
Self-distribution of a film can be quite difficult but means you can control where your movie goes (which audience its targeted at.) One method of doing this is through online streaming services such as Amazon prime, Netflix or Hulu, For example Amazon Prime offer 200K for the film maker and 30cents per hour streamed.
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Which distributor is right for your film?
Whilst there are many distributors all around the world not all are appropriate for your style of film, some only use large budget - all star casts, some cater towards certain genres and others distribute smaller budget films. So whilst the dream may be to be distributed by one of the big 6 it is more likely that for a small budget horror film it would be distributed by any of these:
- Breaking glass pictures
- Terror films
- Hammer film Productions
- Anthem Pictures
- Brain Damage Films
Thursday, 18 January 2018
Wednesday, 17 January 2018
PODCAST 8: most recent filming update
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In this podcast we talk about our most recent filming and where we will go from here
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In this podcast we talk about our most recent filming and where we will go from here
Tuesday, 16 January 2018
ROUGH CUT: 1
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This is our second full rough cut of our film opening idea, whilst there is still a lot of changes to be made to make it work with the genre we are a lot happier it has progressed from our original try
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This is our second full rough cut of our film opening idea, whilst there is still a lot of changes to be made to make it work with the genre we are a lot happier it has progressed from our original try
What went well:
- We managed to get a full rough cut
- The actress and actor co operated better than the last pair
- More "natural" couple
What went wrong:
- Cuts were a bit messy at times
- Some questionable shots put in
- Planning wasn't the best
- Verisimilitude broken on multiple occasions
- Acting wasn't the best
- Sound Effects missing here and there
- Establishing Shot needs to be improved
What has been changed since last:
- Location has changed
- Changed Actress
- Idea has a few tweaks
Wednesday, 3 January 2018
Santa on TV SAMPLE SCENE
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A small section of our opening draft, this is the inspired by saw scene with Santa in the garage. Our group is extremely happy with this scene, it resembles exactly how we envisioned it and the overall result is great.
To create this scene we filmed Santa using a slightly higher angle looking down on Santa, we had a light next to the camera flickering onto his face as it creates a much more eary effect that we were looking for. In post we have then distorted the voice which gives the shown effect.
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A small section of our opening draft, this is the inspired by saw scene with Santa in the garage. Our group is extremely happy with this scene, it resembles exactly how we envisioned it and the overall result is great.
To create this scene we filmed Santa using a slightly higher angle looking down on Santa, we had a light next to the camera flickering onto his face as it creates a much more eary effect that we were looking for. In post we have then distorted the voice which gives the shown effect.
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