Film over view

Pre-production process

For are film we made a 90 second short film for depict competition. With a cash prize of £1200. We distribute it by putting it up on you tube and put it on the depict website for the competition. The other type of moving image media product are feature film that are an hour plus, TV series or single soap and lastly music video. These distribute in different methods for example the feature film is in cinema and the TV series are on the TV. Also there are put on blue rays and DVD to make them sell. This also connect to you tube as the trailers show a tiny bit of the film and later on the film get put on You Tube after the film has been release for a few week or month.  

 

The sources of the film, TV and other moving image productions are sponsors they back the film in return they get some for it like advertising or their name in the credits. Also bank loan can be used to get some of the money needed to make the film, but this mean you own a lot of money to the bank and if the film fails you will be in duet and have to pay a lot of money. Also if you have a money you can self-fund it to make the film.  There are also other ways like Kickstarter where you show you film to people and some of them put their own money in to the making of the film and the more they donate the better the reward they get. For example, if some donates £100 they may get a signed poster or photo of one of the actor in the film. Sometime people win the lottery and make a film using the money there won to fund it, but rare. Also movie studio funds the movie but is only for big films and also they sometime want input in the film and want some control over the final product or there want some of the profits that the film makes.

A lot of money spend, even to make a small film. Money has to be spend on thing for example props. Prop are a big thing in the film. They make some characters look the part prop may be guns or glass and cars. Also we will need refreshments for the cast and crew. Traveling and paying for vans and coaches to   take the equipment and crew to each film location is very important. We will also have to pay for Equipment for the film, this will be items like the camera and the boom mic.  Software is also important because we need it for editing to do the finishing touches to the film and take out any mistake in the film. We also had to get sets for are film. The location was w16, w15 and filming in the hallway. We had to get permission to film in college. We didn’t need to copyright anything because we got are music and sound effects from   bensound.org and freesound.org.  Also a lot of money is required to do marketing. Marketing is well important because you need to get your film out there for people to see. If not know one know that you have made and release a film. Also it gets your name out there as well.

We had to obtain a camera for are filming also a zoom mic to record are audio and make the short advert for the phone and make a news radio advert for the end of are film. Also we need costumes for the film to make the character also we need the editing software to edit are film for are project. We also had to get actors in the film.

Personal i.e. talent and crew in a short film tends to be very small because they don’t have the money for the good cameras and big sets or to pay the crew. The crew and casts tends to be about 5 to 10 people. In a television programme the crew tends to be a med size. As they have a lot of money to pay for actor and crew also they will have very good gear e.g. cameras and lights.  The crew and casts tends to be about 50 to 150 people depending on the budget and how long it running for. In a Hollywood feature film for “Ant Man” the crew and actor list is massive for the main actor to all the different role in the crew. Also they have the very best equipment and software to get a high quality film. The crew and casts tends to be about 200+ due to the high budget

In are group we allocated work by choosing a role. I was the camera man and the other were both actors. We all did editing and the preproduction of the film. We all came up with an idea and chose the best at the start. We also had other people in the film background artist like my friend Dane who was in the film for a few shots.

We had a time frame of 9 lesson to do the preproduction, six lesson to do the film and 6 lesson to do editing and finish the film. Are filming when into the editing time frame because of people being ill and not being here. In the professional media industry if the deadline is not meet it mean people will lose jobs and also it will cost lots of money to get back to the deadline. Are group did not meet are deadline.

In the professional industry they obtain equipment by renting it or going on a website to hire their equipment because it is more cost effected to do that than it is to buy it. For example, www.hirecamera.com

For are film the equipment was available to us we used camera DLSR, tripod, SD card and microphone. We could get all of this from the AV room in college to make are short film  

Location we used to was the college to do all of our filming. We got permission by do a release form. We pick this location because it had the background and set we needed for are film for example w15 because of the lighting and it had the prefect background and set. The issue we had were at least one person being ill on each of the filming days. We overcame them by using are editing time to finish the filming that we had left.

The materials listed we app for the phone which we made in photo shop. Also music and sound, we got this from bensound.org and freesound.org. We use editing software that the college has. Financial considerations are copyright, music license, insurance and wage and equipment  

The legal consideration is permission to film at the location. Copyright protects your work and stops others from using it without your permission. You get copyright protection automatically and you don’t have to apply or pay a fee. You automatically get copyright protection when you create:

• original literary, dramatic, musical and artistic work, including illustration and photography
• original non-literary written work, e.g. software, web content and databases
• sound and music recordings
• film and television recordings
• broadcasts
• the layout of published editions of written, dramatic and musical works

You can mark your work with the copyright symbol (©), your name and the year of creation. Whether you mark the work or not doesn’t affect the level of protection you have.

Copyright prevents people from:

copying your work

distributing copies of it, whether free of charge or for sale

renting or lending copies of your work

performing, showing or playing your work in public

making an adaptation of your work

putting it on the internet

Copyright didn’t affect us because we used a free music from bensound.org and sound effect from freesound.org

Clearance is having permission to use a location or area or to use a band or logo.

The public liability insurance covers you for damage and people hurting themselves

Completion guarantee is completing the film.

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