Film Techniques

Tight framing - used for close shots




Loose frame - used in long shots/midwaste shots with depth





Rule of thirds - If an object/person intersects one of the lines it automatically becomes a point of interes. e.g. the wasp in this picture

Deep space - Deep space is where the shot has a framed point of focus e.g a door way with a door through the door, or two mirrors facing each other.

Shallow space - the image is staged with very little depth, e.g the rueman show when the charicter is trapped between a wall and a camera showing how trapped he feels in the fake life he lives.





Wide shot - referes to the content and purpose of the shot gives a broad view of an are, and view of an area, and conveys scale, distance, and geographic location.

Stages

1.The Pitch: An idea is pitched by the producers to the intrested investorsfor the film.

2.Investment: The producers will approach  private or, production companies or public investors for the film to be given a budget and start production.

3.Packaging:The script is made into a commercial propersition by the director.

4.Financing: The producer will find the right finacier from somewhere around the world, This could be a bank as some specialize in film finance.

5.Pre-Production: The casting director will try and find the correct actors, the production designer will design how the film will look and who will make the sets.

6.The Shoot: This is the key moment in the film production, the funding will be released and the cast, crew and special effects are organized.

7.Post Production: The editor will assemble scenes from the processed footage he has been given.

8.Sales:Specialist sale agents will be employed to help sell the film, the film can also be marketed at film festivals to get attention and sales.

9.arketing: The sales agent is used again but this time to market the film by putting it on posters, magazines and making adverts to be broadcast on television.

10.xibition: A high profile premier with all of the stars of the film is used to launch the movie into the world.

11.her Windows: The film will come out on DVD and may be broadcast on television company’s may also buy the rights to make the film into a computer game.

Space Jam

Space Jam.

Briefly ‘Space jam’ is all about the loony tunes, and Michal Jordan mixing cartoon with real life!

Swackhammer a big green space monster, also the owner of the amusement park planet Moron Mountain is desperate to get some new attractions for his park and his miniature minions convince him to get the Loony Tune characters for a Loony attraction. As it was his minions that wanted the Loony Tunes he sends them down on the task of bringing them back to the park if they like it or not.

Once arrived it is clear that these miniature characters are not intelligent but they do come with big space guns meaning Buggs Bunny is forced to come sort of deal. Buggs confers with all of the other Tunes and they come up with the so called smart plan of challenging the miniature characters to a game of basketball thinking they are sure to win. However the mini monsters have something up there gammy cheating sleeves, they steal the power of 5 of the best basketball professionals around (Globe trotters) and turn their mini selves into Huge overly stimulated muscular ‘MONSTARS’. They have no sympathy and smash the Tunes into pieces. In the desperation this is what makes the film so good Buggs Bunny does some kidnapping of his own and steals Michal Jordan (just retired from basketball) and convinces him to play so that they will stand a chance of winning and winning back their freedom.

The film I have chosen is a comedy, suited to all ages because of its immaculate individuality but mainly I would say teens and smaller children of about the age of 10 onwards, it is age rated U meaning anyone can watch it. The film has a simple story line to follow and it includes lovable characters and then quite clearly the bad guys/guy. The little monsters also turn out to be quite lovable and cute as in the end it turns out they aren’t very smart and they got pushed around there whole lives. They ask bugs for acceptance and bugs accepts there apology and there plea. The films budget was $80 million and for me it is well worth it! I can imagine most of the money went into the technical animated side of the film and on getting all of the actors to enrolee on the filming.

The film’s director was Joe pytka, the film is a big step for him as he is a small film director and music video director, meaning space jam gave him a big opening to his career being the success it was. He had huge actors and stars in the film e.g. Michal Jordan, Bill Murray, the star of so many films e.g. ghost busters and Ground Hog day. Also stars Wayne knight from Jurassic park etc the film also has many more sports stars such as Larry Bird etc.

The film was made at two studios Northern Lights Entertainment and Warner Bros Animation, all computer generated graphics and cartoon editing happened at the Warner bros Animation owned by the Warner Bros and northern light is owned by Northern lights co. The technology used is old school too us now, but back in the day it was ground breaking what Warner Bros did too this film. The film was shown in 3D in certain specialised cinemas but the main stream film we see today is the normal 2D edit. It was filmed on ‘film’ and does not use CGI. The film studio Warner Bros distributed the film as it is all based around there cartoon inventions.

The film was released on November 15, 1996 (1996-11-15) worldwide, the film was shown on international screens in different languages but I cannot find how many exact. The film was recognised most by the poster all around, and the premiers over the USA.

Wes Anderson - american express

Skins summer work

Skins


Skins Fred&Cook Narrative

The Fantasy Factory

The Fantasy Factory

Bfi film industry work.

BFI Research

Pocoyo

pocoyo

class survey

When doing my class survey I found out that the film’s most recently watched by my fellow students in my class mainly watch American films from companies such as warner bro’s, Columbia pictures and universal pictures. The results I have collected from the class survey on the latest films we have watched goes as follows, The ratio of American to English films watched are 4:2. The films I have watched consist of Space jam, Cherry tree lane, Anuvahood, The Inbetweeners movie, Fright Night and Four Lions. The whole classes results were all quite resent and modern, just about everyone put down harry potter deathly hollows part 2. The ratio between the films was all quite level but the American film industry was just topping it. This shows in these developing times the film industry is very equal between the BFI and AFI.

I believe that American films are still way ahead of the BFI as most British films are drama’s or dark comedy, the type of film you wouldn’t be to fussed in seeing unless it was on your T.V.

We then surveyed how the class would watch these films, most of the results showed that people still went out to the cinema, but yet mostly the films that weren’t as new were off the T.V and were said to be watched because there is ‘Nothing else on at the time’. There weren’t as many people saying DVD as we thought mainly due to the big thrive in the downloading industry. It would seem that people would rather download the films via I tunes or of the I player, this way it is portable you can pause, rewind, have sub titles turn the volume up and down, but the cons are that it is on a small screen, it takes time to download, and if done illegally you could get prosecuted. You will never get a rush like if you were watching it at the cinema though.

The olden ways of marketing a film buy putting up posters and having leafletters is not so old fashioned as you may think, you get people that will hand out free vouchers at your local cinema that will allow a small discount to come see a film, very much like the leafletters. You also get all your big posters on buses and on big bill boards. You get all sorts of new ways to advertise now through the media, on T.V and at the start of other films, radio etc., the most effective way right now is over the T.V the amount of people that will be watching your advert over the world is staggering, other ways such as internet advertising, word of mouth are still very effective and also draw in a larger audience than if a film had no advertising, All this advertising will get it stuck in your brain certainly, all the advert now are so catchy and real it makes you want to see the film, the films of today are all very popular.

Confused.

Mr Smith, your going to have to show me the in's and out's of this blogging buisness so far it is confusing!

about me

I have recently started up my blogger account and am now making a practiceblog as i am going to be blogging alot over late :)

-why have you chosen to study media? It looked interesting and fun, also i have heard good things about the topic by friends and family friends. The course at lutterworth seemed attractive to what i would like to do in later life.

- whatother subjects are you studieng? I am studieng English language, BTEC drama, extended project and sports leadership

-My favrouite band/artist is Jaguar skills, Public enemy, thegame, thewombats, Roots manuva, the enemy, wu-tang clan, bob marely and vampire weekend.

I like to have a variety of music taste as if you listen to all the same genre it gets to be all the same, i would prefere music you can relax to or music where it has a beat you can skate to.

-what are my favrouite T.V programmes? Family guy, skins.

Skins is an individual programme that suits my taste, it attracts me as i can relate to it. Some of the problems are exagerated but it covers how people my age feel about life in some ways, and over all the series i feel i have connected to some of the charicters. That's why it was such a shame for them to bring in a new cast.
And who doesn't love family guy, it's just funny plain and simple!






-My favrouite film/who isyour favrouite director? Space jam/steven spielberg



 

-What websites do i read? I use facebook and twitter