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What are the advantages/ disadvantages of single-camera productions?

Advantages:

-less money spent and reduces costs

-stored in one place, no loss of footage

- will not require a camerman

Disadvantage:

-that one camera could break

-more time consuming

-any mistakes and they have start again

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Fast & Furious 7 (2015)

Fast and Furious 7 is an American hesit action film directed by Justin Lin & Chris Morgan, and was funded by Universal Pictures films. The film grossed $1.5 billion worldwide going agaisnt it's $125 million budget, which lead it to be the highest grossing film in the franchise after 12 days. The films principal photography began in Atlanta, Georgia but with other filming locations such as Los Angeles, Colorado, Abu Dhabi, and Tokyo, whilst using a total of 340 cars throughout all of filming . Although there were 6 people involved in the pre production of the film such as Chris Morgan, Justin Lin, James Wan, Neal H. Moritz, Michael Fottrell and Vin diesel, only Chris Morgan developed the script. The crew started filming in September 2013 but didnt resume until April 2014 as there was a delay to the filming and the script writing as Paul Walker died whilst filming the ending of the film due to a car crash on November 30, 2013 and ended the filming in July 2014. Therefore the crew had to use his brothers, Caleb and Cody as stand-ins for the remaining duration of the film, thus endinf filming in July 2014. Casting began in April 2013 at the start of filming, the final cast is Brian o'conner Vin diesel. Michelle rodriguez, Dwayne johnson, Tyrese gibson, Ludacris, Jason statham, Jordan Brewster, Djimon Hounsou, Kurt Russell and Iggy Azalea.

'London to Brighton' case study:

Founders: Paul Andrew Williams & Ken Marshall

Producer: Steel Mill Pictures

Distrubutor: Vertigo

-The founders intended to make a horror comedy film, but it took too long and cost too much money so they filmed a social british realist film.Thus they financed with private equity and completion money from UK Films Council's Cinema Fund with a £80,000 budget.

-To keep the costs even lower they filmed it over only 19 days using guerilla filming.

About the film:

Kelly (Lorraine Stanley), a prostitute, is sent by her pimp, Derek (Johnny Harris), to procure a young girl for aging gangster Duncan (Alexander Morton). She brings back 11-year-old Joanne (Georgia Groome) -- but sex between Duncan and Joanne goes badly, and the gangster is inadvertently killed.

'Shifty' case study:

Founders: Rory Atiken & Ben Pugh

Producer:Between The Eyes

Distrubutor: Metdrodome

The film was made in 2008 under the microwave scheme and made to appeal to a young, urban audience and taken to a film festival where there was 4 or 5 companies who wanted to buy the distribution rights. But the founders chose Metrodome as they liked their marketing/advertising.

This is how they advertised the film:

- spent £50,000 on prints and advertising, and had a viral advertising campaign.

- made three different trailers to appeal to different audiences, one had a classical soundtrack, one had a hip-hop track - to widen target audience.

-Had a music comp. on the website where people could remix the soundtrack, winner would get £500 and a chance to professionally record in studio.

-Viral advertising continued using drug dealer “business cards”.

about the film:

London is home to a young crack cocaine dealer named Shifty. His family are about to disown him because of his lifestyle, and he is being stalked by a customer who wants to score at all costs. Can he prevent what is all set to be a violent and dangerous future?

'The Theory Of Everything' case study:

Producer:Working Title

Distrubutor: Universal Pictures International

Director: James Marsh

The film is a romance/ drama that was produced by Anthony McCarten, Tim Bevan, Lise Bruse and Eric Fellner. The producers ntended audience of more mature age as this film has upsetting scenes also it educates the audience of the life of Stephen Hawkings as BBFC gave it a certificate of 12A. Although it was distrubuted in the UK it cost $15,000,00 to make and the worldwide gross profit of $123,726,688.

About the film:

Stephen Hawking, an excellent astrophysics student working on his research, learns that he suffers from motor neurone disease and has around two years to live.

'Life In A Day' case study:

Founders: Roidley Scott & Tom Scott

Producer:Scott Free Productions

Distrubutor: National Geographic Films

Life in a day is a doumentry styled film where on July 24 2010, thousands of people around the world uploaded small clips to youtube to show what their life is like in a single day on Earth. However although this film is directed by Kevin Mcdonald and distrubuted by National Geographic Films, this film is more crowd sourced as all the footage isnt shot by a director. Similar films Scott Free Productions have produced is Before I Gosleep, Gladiator and The Martian. The film film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival on 27 January 2011 and the premiere was streamed live on YouTube.On 31 October 2011 for free, as it wasn't about making profit, and made $252,788 in box office. One of the main reasosn why the producers decided the day for the film to be in July as its summer and people would be more active in their clips. The crew had to sit through 4,500 hours of footage in 80,000 submissions from 192 nations overall.

What is the difference between 'crowdsourcing' and crowd funding'?

Crowdsourcing:

Is process of collecting ideas, services, and/or content with the help of contributions from a large number of people usually through the internet.

Crowdfunding:

Is a way of raising finance by asking a large number of people each for a small amount of money through the internet such as either any type of social media.

'Veronica Mars' case study:

Produced: Spondoolie Pictures & Rob Thomas

Distrubutor: Warner Brothers

what is a prosumer- a person who consumes and then produces media 'production by consumer'

On March 13, 2013, Thomas and star Kristen Bell launched a fundraising campaign to produce the film through Kickstarter, offering various incentives to those who donated $10 or more. It attained the $2 million goal in less than eleven hours. In its first day on Kickstarter, the project broke the record as the fastest project to reach first $1 million, then $2 million; it also achieved the highest minimal pledging goal achieved, and became the largest successful film project on Kickstarter at the time. On its final campaign day, the project broke the record for the most backers on a single Kickstarter project. Afterwards, the film earned a greenlight from Warner Bros. Digital Distribution.

about the film:

Veronica Mars used to be the popular girl with the cool friends and the jock boyfriend. A series of personal and family traumas have made her an outcast - albeit one with a sarcastic side and a snarky sense of humor. Now, she helps her private investigator father dig into the lives of the rich and famous in the messed-up town of Neptune, Calif.

Kickstarter: Kungfury (2015)

A 2015 ennglish-languaged swedish martial arts comdey written and directed by David sandberg, set in the 1980s and inspired by action films of that era. It pays homage to 1980s martial arts and police action films. The film stars Sandberg in the title role, Jorma Taccone, Leopold Nilsson, and a cameo appearance by David Hasselhoff. It was crowdfunded through Kickstarter from December 2013 to January 2014 with donations US$630,019, exceeding the original goal of $200,000. A second goal was added with the target set to $1 million to rewrite the story into a full-length feature and a possible distribution deal.

Ended on 25 January 2014 with:

- $630,019 pledged

- 17,713 backers.

Why is pre-production so important?

The Shining (1980)

about the film:

Jack Torrance is a writer and recovering alcoholic who becomes the caretaker of the Overlook Hotel. He hopes to use the quiet surroundings to get some writing done, and brings his family along for the ride. Instead, the hotel is haunted by malevolent spirits that drive Torrance insane to the point that he tries to kill his family.

what went wrong:

Despite being a critical and commercial darling, the film was plagued by the manic nuances of its perfectionist director, Stanley Kubrick. The movie was shot chronologically, which meant large sets needed to be built in advance, including a life-sized recreation of the hotel. He was notorious for making the actors do take after take until they played out the scene to his specifications. The “Here’s Johnny” scene where Torrance hacks through a door with an ax and delivers the line took three days to shoot and more than 60 doors.

Shelley Duvall, who played Torrance’s wife in the film, considers the role the most difficult of her career. She suffered from exhaustion, illness, and hair loss from the stress of the shoot. Kubrick was known to insult and get angry with her in order to push Duvall to her limits. He wanted the actress to feel absolutely hopeless, and it worked. He even had Jack Nicholson, who portrayed Torrance, eat only cheese sandwiches (which he detested) to intentionally put him in a bad mood.

what could have been done during the pre-production process to reduce the issues:

One way they could of reduced the problems for this film is have a team of individulas working on the script and having open discussions in a meeting with built in time. Therefore the script wouldn't of changed so much and the perfectionnist director would have been happier and not repeat each scene to his standars, as there would be no more changes to be made because they had a neatly finished script.

Vertical Integration:

Horizontal Integration:

a strategy where a company owns and controls their suppliers, distributors so they can control its value or supply chain.

process of a company increasing production of goods or services at the same part of the supply chain.