Prelim Practice

This is my practice prelim task based on a superhero genre



Self evaluation:

1) I worked with Chay, Sam and Libby. We all had our parts to do in the production of this movie, Sam did the camera work, Chay was the director and Libby created the story boards and did part of the acting and I did the editing above and part of the acting.

2) We planned our sequence through our storyboard, witing down each clip as we go along. We wrote down all are ideas on a scrap piece of paper first, then did small drawings of our clips with descriptions of the pictures underneath as a storyboard, filmed the clips and then edited them on premier. We tried to take into account the camera shots we had to include in the movie, for example, the 180 dialogue shots, close up shot, reverse shot etc.

3) We used a Sony Carl Zeiss camera to record our footage. We also used Premiere to edit our footage.

4) When planning our film, we had to take into consideration what was actually possible to film or edit, for example we had to keep the filming ideas quite simple. When shooting our film we had to take into consideration the sound, what was going on in the background, the camera angles we had to use and how we could make it look as dramatic and interesting as possible. For the editing we had to take into consideration how smooth the transitions look, how we're going to fit in the audio with the filming, what we need to cut out from the clips and what order we need to put the clips in to make the film make sense.

5) Our sequnce turned out to be very average by the time we finished it. I think that the filming was quite poor because the acting wasnt great and we didn't film everything we wanted to film in order to make the movie make sense. I think we saved the filming a but with the editing, adding in some dramatic music and putting some description imbertween scenes to explain what is actually happening. I had some farely mixed views on the film, some people said it didnt make sense because they dont understand what happened in the fight which was down to the filming, but some people said that we captured the genre quite well using the typical corny superhero lines.
6) Through this process I have learnt that getting the filming right is vital to creating a good film, and I will try to do this in future projects. When completing my future coursework, I will look back on this to see what went well and what didn't go so well, which can be very important for me to get it right the next time.

Low budget vs High budget institutions

Low budget VS High budget

High budget:

Low budget:

1. The institution used to create Paranormal Activity is Paramount Pictures.This is very unusual because Paramount doesnt usually asscociate themselves with low budget films. The institution to create Gulliver's Travels is 20th century fox, which makes more sense because 20th century fox is a very well known and large institution.

 

2. Paranormal Activity only had a small budget of $15,000 to pay for lots of things like cameras, actors, and editing. On the other hand, Guliver's Travels had a large budget of $112m to kick start thier movie.

3. The visionaries behind Paranormal Activity created a movie that took in a worldwide gross of almost $197 million, a staggering percentage return of over 655,000%. Gulivers Travels was a Box office bomb in the United States, as it made only $42.6 million. However, it was a financial success overseas with over $194.6 million around the world to a grand total of $237.3 million worldwide.

4. Paramount pictures are a very well known production company, this creates some confusion as to why they would help create a low budget movie. This could be explained by the popularity of the movie, they knew it would be a very good business prospect for them. 20th Centry Fox is arguably the most popular production company out there, which comes as no surprise that they helped create a high budget movie.

5. There isn't much difference between Paranormal Activity or Gulliver's Travels because their institutions are both very large. They are completely different in terms of editing and filming, which is why they're so far apart on their budget.

6.The institutions of both the films are both large which is one similarity between them. Furthermore this means the films will be both advertised at a large scale.

7. 20th century fox films:
.Avatar
.X Men
.Ice Age
.Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Paramount films:
.Star Trek
.Transformers
.The Godfather
.Mission Impossible

8. 20th Century Fox usually produce family drama's with the occasional action or thriller movie. Paramount focus's more on action movies, with a few different ones for example Star Trek as sci-fi and Paranormal Activity as horror. The genre that the company produces can be very important when you consider who could produce your film, this is because if the company you choose has more experience in your genre then they would be more helpful when they produce your movie.

9. 20th Century Fox aims to appeal to the common family which is shown through their movies. There arent really any adult films, they are all family drama's, action or thriller films. Paramount are a bit more sofisticated, They do have some films that you wouldnt show to children like horror, mixed with some action and thriller films, for this reason Paramount aim their films more towards adults.

10. I think that 20th Century Fox is the larger institution out of the two. This is because they aim to a wider range of audiences because the majority of their movies are for the family market, plus the fact all of the movies they get involved with are quite successful.

Film Company Logo

For this task we had to create a logo for oour film company.

 

If you look at other logo's you can see all of them have a common theme, which is including a powerful object or animal like a famous or large building or a lion. This is why I included a dragon in my logo because it is a very powerful animal, plus the fact it matches the name of my film company. Other logos also have a very grand look to it, also making it look more powerful. I tried to incorporate this with the flames either side of the dragon.

 

Juno Opening Sequence

For this tasked we were given the opening sequence to Juno and tried to immitate it as closely as possible.



Things we did well:

. The clothing were the same as what Juno was wearing and the props were as similar as we can get it
. We got all the actions correct for example the drinking.
. All the editing goes at the same pace of the original
. All the transitions between scenes were similar to the original

Things we could have done better:

. There was one scene where I walked past the chair and the guitar, in the original, they tilt from the bottom half to the top half of the body, but we forgot to tilt up. So the filming could have been much improved.
. It was hard to find the best scenes in order to film our sequence in a small and local area.