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Film Production Task 1

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The film I have chosen to research is Divergent. Released in 2014, Divergent is a Sci-Fi/Action film released by Lionsgate and is set in a dystopian future where the world is separated by two military factions at war with each other. The film was produced by Douglas Wick, who was responsible for producing other films such as The Great Gatsby, Stuart Little and The Craft. The role of the producer in a film is a person who oversees the film production. Either employed by a production company or working independently, producers plan and coordinate various aspects of the film production, such as selecting the script, coordinating writing, directing and editing and arranging financing. The primary target audience for Divergent was teens to young adults, mixed gender who like action movies. This is apparent because the film is mainly composed of young adult leads, which connotes power and independence, something that people at this age crave to achieve. Watching Divergent may cause this targ...
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Target Audiences Of Films

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Demographic chosen: Under 10 Year Olds First Example: Toy Story Toy Story is cg-animated Pixar aimed at a target audience of under 10 year olds. This evident because of the style of animation. For example, the animation of the film is bright, colourful and displays a diverse series of characters and settings. More specifically, the colours characters are vibrant and exaggerated, making reference of the films lack of realism but also in order to keep the target audiences attention as children have low attention spans. Also showing the vast collection of locations from Andy's bright and colourful room, emitting hope, enthusiasm and wonder to Sid's dark and eery room, breeding feelings of control, loneliness and chaos, gives the audience a sense of variety and stops them from getting bored scene to scene. Second Example: How To Train Your Dragon How To Train Your Dragon is another example of a film made for this target audience. Evidence of this is depicted through its intriguing,...
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Pre-Production Task

What is a Shooting Schedule? A project plan of each day's shooting for a production.  It is normally created and managed by the assistant director, who reports to the production manager managing the production schedule. Both schedules represent a timeline stating where and when production resources are used.   What is a Location Recce? Refers to a pre-filming  visit to a location to determine its suitability for shooting,  i ncluding access to necessary facilities and assessment of any potential lighting or sound issues, and is closely related to location scouting. What does Copyright mean? The exclusive and assignable legal right, given to the originator for a fixed number of years, to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material. What is public liability? A type of insurance for businesses of all sizes, across a variety of industries. It covers you if a client or member of the public claims they have been injured, or their p...
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Technological Changes In Filmmaking

In my opinion, the most significant change is green screen. The first green screen or "travelling matte" was created in 1940. It was first used in the Larry Butler film The Thief Of Baghdad. The invention of the green screen allowed an easier and cheaper way to place actors in a certain location without having to build a set or travel somewhere. For example this scene from Doctor Strange where Strange and Mordo are fighting the background of the scene is created with green screen. It impacted the way of how movies were produced because it allowed the production to be cheaper. This would allow the distributors to spend more money on things like marketing for the film, which would benefit how much profit the film would make because it would increase the chance of people seeing it. It also allows films with considerably lower budgets than Hollywood movies to still look professional and confidently made. Furthermore some of the most influential and famous movies of all time such ...
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Assignment Preparation

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                                           Remake Chosen: Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes (2011) The budget of Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes was $93 million, which is considerably bigger than the original Planet Of The Apes' budget ($5 million). The film and its sequels were produced by 20th Century Fox. The film was directed by Rupert Wyatt and produced by Peter Chernin, Dylan Clark, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver. The film stars James Franco, Andy Serkis and Freida Pinko. The film was Hollywood produced, explaining its high budget. The film was mainstream, with it winning many awards. The films received the 12A certificate because the film has scenes of violence and torture. The film is part of a franchise with 2 sequels.
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Independent And Studio Films Notes

Studio films are films made by major Hollywood films with big budgets. Studio films have high production values. Multinational media conglomerate - Studio that owns companies across a range of various media platforms (e.g. Disney). Means they can use all the companies to promote and market a film. Called vertical intergration . Cross platform strategies are used to appeal to a full range of potential audiences. Independent films are films with smaller budgets and sometimes as a result, lower production values. (e.g. Juno, Roma). Independent production companies can secure funding for private investors but usually funded by art agencies, such as the British Film Council. Independent Films - Release: Horozontal integration is when a conglomerate uses smaller independent compamies to help with marketing and distribution. Independent Films rely heavily on critic revies in Newspapers, magazines or online publications.
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Context Of A Film

 Charlie And The Chocolate Factory 1. This movie was directed by Tim Burton. This affected the original source material of the film because Burton is an auteur director who has uses similar themes and elements in his films, such as the use of gothic suburbia, isolated characters and grand, surreal imagery. 2. This movie was developed by Warner Bros. This would allow the movie to have bigger production budget than Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory budget because Warner Bros is a big Hollywood production company and is more successful than the previous company. 3. The film was developed by Hollywood which would give it much bigger recognition as Hollywood films normally do better than England based films. 4. This was a studio production. This means the film would look more professional as the last film was an independent and, as result of, this looked cheap. This would allow the film to look more polished. 5. The film was produced in 2005. Because the film was produced during thi...
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