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.
