Showing posts with label Jameel Lowe. Show all posts
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Thursday, 8 November 2012

Our Swede Presnetation


After much blood sweat and tears i have finally achomplised to upload our presentation. Huzza!!! :D

Wednesday, 7 November 2012

Swede Presentation

SCREAM SWEDE
Our feature presentation!

Cara Mullen
Charlie Serra
Deborah Daniel
Hussam Chowdhury
Jameel Lowe
         Planning
            Firstly as a group we watched one of the trailers from Scream. Once we had the desired trailer we would then come to an agreement as to what scenes we wanted to portray and of course how we were going to alter them to our delight. We all discussed ways of depicting this genre of macabre horror and the sanguineous nature of the movie in such a comical fashion. We begun delegating errands and precise roles to each individual of the group. There was also a discussion on the props we were going to use. By the help from our teacher we were able to receive the requisite props for our production.

Production 
Avatar
There are an array of stages involved in the making of a film, they are as followed; Development, pre-production,
production and distribution.
This presentation aims to boost your perspicacity on the most fundamental aspects of film based on my
favourite movie... AVATAR!!



Development
In this stage, the project's producer selects a story, which may come from a book, play, another film, a true
story, original idea, etc. After identifying a theme or underlying message, the producer works with writers to
prepare a synopsis. Next they produce a step outline, which breaks the story down into one-paragraph scenes
that concentrate on dramatic structure. Then, they prepare a treatment, a 25-to-30-page description of the story,
its mood, and characters. This usually has little dialogue and stage direction, but often contains drawings that
help visualize key points. Another way is to produce a scriptment once a synopsis is produced.

Pre-production
In pre-production, every step of actually creating the film is carefully designed and planned. The
production company is created and a production office established. The production is storyboarded and
visualized with the help of illustrators and concept artists. A production budget is drawn up to plan
expenditures for the film. For major productions, insurance is procured to protect against accidents.
The producer hires a crew. The nature of the film, and the budget, determine the size and type of crew
used during filmmaking. Many Hollywood blockbusters employ a cast and crew of hundreds, while a low
budget, independent film The unit production manager may be made by a skeleton crew of eight or nine (or
fewer). These are
typical crew positions:
•The director
•The assistant director
•The casting director
•The director of photography
•The director of autography
•The production sound mixer
•The sound designer
•The production designer
•The art director
•The costume designer
•The choreographer 

•roduction
In production, the video production/film is created and shot.
More crew will be recruited at this stage, such as the property master, script supervisor, assistant directors, stills
photographer, picture editor, and sound editors. These are just the most common roles in filmmaking; the production
office will be free to create any unique blend of roles to suit the various responsibilities possible during the
production of a film.
A typical day's shooting begins with the crew arriving on the set/location by their call time. Actors usually have their
own separate call times. Since set construction, dressing and lighting can take many hours or even days, they are often
set up in advance.

Post-production
Here the video/film is assembled by the video/film editor. The modern use of video in the filmmaking process has
resulted in two workflow variants: one using entirely film, and the other using a mixture of film and video.
his is the final stage, where the film is released to cinemas or, occasionally, to consumer media (DVD, VCD, VHS, Blu
ray) or direct download from a provider. The film is duplicated as required for distribution to cinemas. Press kits,
posters, and other advertising materials are published and the film is advertised and promoted.

Marketing
There were various marketing strategies that made the film the highest grossing film ever.
james Cameron envisioned customizing the release so that every viewer in every theater got the best possible
experience. There are a lot of vagaries when it comes to public exhibition, for example screens are different sizes,
different formats, and technologies involving 3-D. So they did a customized release (which has never been done before)
where ever you went, the theatre was going to get the perfect cinema package to ensure you were going to get the best
possible screening, best possible experience of watching Avatar.  James Cameron and his army of people who created
Avatar wanted to deliver a perfect experience, so by customizing the release that came true. This proved very profitable
too, as Avatar climbed to the top of the highest grossing film ever, he topped himself once again topping his own film
‘Titanic’ as he proclaimed after winning the award for Titanic “I’m king of the world” a line from the film, he has de
topped himself.
Avatar was finally released on DVD in April 2010, does not contain any supplemental features other than the theatrical
film and the disc menu in favor of and to make space for adjusting picture and sound. On November 16th 2010 the
three disc extended collector’s edition of avatar was released. This included Three different versions of the film are
present on the discs: the original theatrical cut, the special edition cut, and a collector's extended cut (with the DVD set
spreading them on two discs, but the Blu-ray set presenting them on a single disc). The collector's extended cut
contains 6 more minutes of footage, thus making it 16 minutes longer than the original theatrical cut. It also included
an in-depth making into the film Avatar, 4 hours of never before seen footage.

Exhibition
Films can be viewed in Cinemas, purchasing a copy of the DVD, Films can be watched on TV and now the ability to
download movies online are becoming more prominent. 

The Making of our Swede!!
We used final cut pro to edit our Swede. With this application we were able to add effects, alter shots, add additional
slide transitions (eg fading) We were also able to tweak the audio through the editing.




















Tuesday, 16 October 2012


AS Media studies Homework
PRODUCTION
The main stages involved in producing a film are:
Development Stage:
Development stage is where a story outline is developed into a feasible script. A detailed screenplay will then be written with minute details of the characters, situations and overall style. Process involved in developing the screenplay is called as script coverage. With the detailed screenplay a potential financier will be approached. When the financier is impressed with the screenplay they agree to give the financial backing for the production of the movie.
Pre-production Stage:
In the pre-production stage, the movie is crafted in detail and a production budget is drawn. It is in this stage the producer hire the crew whose team size depends on the budget of the movie. Big budget movies will have a crew of nearly hundred members where as low budget movie will engage a ten or even less number of crews. The director, assistant director, art director, choreographer, cinematographer, music composer and music director are the main members of the crew.
Production Stage:
Next is the production stage where the film is created and then shot. In this stage the production office recruits more crew members like the property masters, script supervisors, still photographers, sound editors and so on. During this stage the whole unit will be busy, as the crew will be preparing their equipment, actors will be rehearsing the script and discussing with the director, etc. It is a custom widely followed to have a wrap party at the end of the project to thank one and all of the crew teams.
Post-Production Stage:
In the Post-Production stage it is mainly the editor who plays a key role. It is the film editor who assembles the film. The film editor first builds a rough sketch from different scenes or sequences based on individual shots. In the next step, the process of trimming a few minutes or seconds is done to create a professional cut of all shots to make it flow smoothly. After this the producer and director approval will be sought. The locked picture is passed on to develop the sound track to the sound track department. Voice recordings and the ultimate sound mix are created.
Distribution Stage:
Distribution is the final stage, when the movies are released for the public. Copies of the movie are taken for distribution to theatre’s. The movie is publicized with wall posters, TV commercials, press kits etc. Usually the movie will be released with a press releases, launch party, and preview for the press. Rights for distribution of the movie worldwide and in DVD will be sold to a single person/company or different persons/companies.

EXHIBITION
Today there are many ways for us to engage in films for we can: go to the local cinema and watch a film, purchase a dvd copy of a film that has already been released in cinema, watch film on TV channels such as sky movies or film 4 or regular channels like channel 1 etc., also we can download film onto our laptops consoles or smart phones (illegally) before they are even released in the cinema.

DISTRIBUTION
One way that a film gets from the edit house to is a straight to video release. A straight to video release occurs when a movie is released on home video formats without being released in theatre’s first, thereby not taking into consideration the "theatrical window"  another way in which films are distributed is standard release which is when a film is released in the cinema or theatre then approximately 17 weeks is released on DVD and after an additional amount of months is released on pay TV such as sky movies on demand finally two years after the film’s release date it is made available for free on TV