Monday, 26 November 2012
Journal 26/11/12 production company research
List of production companies
- 20th century fox
- Universal pictures
- disney/pixar
- dark castle
- twisted pictures
- raw nerve
- Happy Madison
- lionsgate
- warner bros
- spy glass
- paramount
- lake shore
- sony
- MGM
- dreamworks
- columbia pictures
- touchstone pictures
- newline cinema
- miramax
What is a film studio? film studio is a company that produces and/or distributes motion picture.
6 main studios operating today (the big six)
- Walt disney
- paramount
- universal pictures
- warner bros
- sony/columbia
- 20th centuary fox
How does it work?
A film is produced by the producer who provides money to a distributor in order to distribute the made film. Money is then given to the cinema's to screen the film, and once this has happened to customer pay to see the film. All the money through these steps return to the producer first as they are the first paid, then a small share of the money goes to the distributors and the cinema.
What is the role of a distributor?
The distribution company is in charge of getting the film out to audiences, this involves organising regulation bodies, such as the BBFC and MPAA; arranging exhibition outlets globally and DVD; television rights; arranging for prints of the film; and marketing, publicity and promotion of the film.
2 factors to consider when choosing a production company
- think about how much will the film cost?
- what genre is the film?
Our film is a hit blockbuster therefore we decided to go for a mainstream and one of the big six production companies to ensure the film gets distributed as globally as possible due to the potential it has to succeed. In the end we went with universal studios due to it specialising in distributing family comedies, thus it fits our film profiling.
Friday, 23 November 2012
Fight sequence
We was set a task to create a fight sequence, however once created the sound was muted so foley sound could be added to create a certain effect on the viewer and add realism to what was being presented visually. I whole point of this task was to gain some experience with foley sound which would be beneficial to the title sequence in which needs to created.
In order to actual create the sequence the group when through a planning stage which consisted of brainstorming, scripting the piece and then storyboarding which allowed the written script to be represented visually. After which we began film and paid close attention to the camera shots and angles in order to have the right effect created, for example we used an extreme close up of an from a high angle to show both fear and vulnerability.
Once the sequence was created we needed to add foley sound, to do this we first planned what we needed to add and this was done simply by watching the sequence and noted down everything in need of sound. This included:
- Mobile phone beep
- Slow footsteps
- shopping bag rustle
- Door creek
- Heavy footsteps
- Loud bang
- slap
- grunt
- walking stick taps
- Umbrella slam
- sliding umbrella
-cracking skull
- dragging on floor
- Kick
- crack of bone
- Police sirens
It was then time to start recording the sounds. We started off with a walnut shell which will split in half to have a more echo'd effect, we tapped this on a table top the same pace in which the umbrella would tap against the floor thus allowing it to be in sync. I found this difficult as I thought it was hard to get a sense of the rhythm through visuals.
Another sound we got was for the slaps and to do this we took two pieces of meat and slammed them together thus mimicking a slap noise.We overlapped the slap noise with the breaking of a carrot which sounded like a bone breaking; we did this to get a stronger effect as it added realism when the sounds were overlapped.
To create the sound of the actors falling to the floor we combined a dropping of a walnut with the dropping of a pack of paper to give the contrast of lightness and heaviness. This worked well for effect as not all the body weight would be hitting the floor simultaneously so by combing a heavy sound with a light one make the fall sound both realistic and accurate. To give even more of impact we took the surface of the floor into consideration as the floor was hard and created an echo which we wanted to come across in our video. With this in mind we added an effect on final cut pro named reverb which gave allowed the sound to be gradually echoed as it would if there was a genuine fall.
After making this video I had more knowledge of using the final cut pro software, which is strongly needed due to it being the programme in which my group will be creating our title sequences. I also had an entire now insight of foley sound and how it works and is used for both effect and emphasis on key objects or areas. The task also allowed my group to think about which items make specific noises and which we would like to include in our title sequence, for example there will be lots of comedic slip up's therefore meat would be good for resembling falls or fights.
In order to actual create the sequence the group when through a planning stage which consisted of brainstorming, scripting the piece and then storyboarding which allowed the written script to be represented visually. After which we began film and paid close attention to the camera shots and angles in order to have the right effect created, for example we used an extreme close up of an from a high angle to show both fear and vulnerability.
Once the sequence was created we needed to add foley sound, to do this we first planned what we needed to add and this was done simply by watching the sequence and noted down everything in need of sound. This included:
- Mobile phone beep
- Slow footsteps
- shopping bag rustle
- Door creek
- Heavy footsteps
- Loud bang
- slap
- grunt
- walking stick taps
- Umbrella slam
- sliding umbrella
-cracking skull
- dragging on floor
- Kick
- crack of bone
- Police sirens
It was then time to start recording the sounds. We started off with a walnut shell which will split in half to have a more echo'd effect, we tapped this on a table top the same pace in which the umbrella would tap against the floor thus allowing it to be in sync. I found this difficult as I thought it was hard to get a sense of the rhythm through visuals.
Another sound we got was for the slaps and to do this we took two pieces of meat and slammed them together thus mimicking a slap noise.We overlapped the slap noise with the breaking of a carrot which sounded like a bone breaking; we did this to get a stronger effect as it added realism when the sounds were overlapped.
To create the sound of the actors falling to the floor we combined a dropping of a walnut with the dropping of a pack of paper to give the contrast of lightness and heaviness. This worked well for effect as not all the body weight would be hitting the floor simultaneously so by combing a heavy sound with a light one make the fall sound both realistic and accurate. To give even more of impact we took the surface of the floor into consideration as the floor was hard and created an echo which we wanted to come across in our video. With this in mind we added an effect on final cut pro named reverb which gave allowed the sound to be gradually echoed as it would if there was a genuine fall.
After making this video I had more knowledge of using the final cut pro software, which is strongly needed due to it being the programme in which my group will be creating our title sequences. I also had an entire now insight of foley sound and how it works and is used for both effect and emphasis on key objects or areas. The task also allowed my group to think about which items make specific noises and which we would like to include in our title sequence, for example there will be lots of comedic slip up's therefore meat would be good for resembling falls or fights.
Thursday, 22 November 2012
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