Key:
H: Host
C: Contestant
H: Welcome back to our talk show. Tonight we have a very special gust. He is the director and editor of Lugnut Productions and has been part of making a film which will be coming out soon next year.
H: *name of C* how are you.
C: Hello, I'm good thanks.
H:As I understand you are a brand new company and this is your first movie. You have had help from both Clinnick Media and Gingerbread Films to create this new horror movie called Christmas Sleigher.
C: Yes this is true.
H: I have a surprise for you during the course of this talk show by the way and after the ad breaks it will become very clear *takes a long weird look at C*
C: *laughs awkwardly* does this have anything to do with the fact I handed in my phone before the show?
H: *Stares into distance not saying anything*
H: Anyways... first of all tell me, how was it to get to grasps on things. For example, had you ever used a camera before this movie?
C: It was quite difficult at times but I think we overall managed very well. I have used a camera before, I used to have a youtube channel when I was in my pre-teens and I have done both GCSE and AS Level Media Studies. For this film however there were some new things and I could use a lot of information and skills learnt from my school life. Some things that were easy was the use of cameras and tri-pods and setting them up. However I have only recently started using the 180 degree rule. This was something new and it really helped me in trying to create continuous editing in the film.
H: That's pretty neat, if any of the audience has any more of a clue what the 180 degree rule or what continuous editing is... I applaud.
C: Oh! well its basically when....
H: Yeah thats ok, everyone has google nowadays.. So tell me, is this final cut what you originally planned?
C: Oh no it wasn't, we originally planned for it to be be a zombie/slasher hybrid but decided to discard that idea completely. We were relying on too many people to come help us for free as we are such a small company.. This ended up with a very select few ever turning up and the ones we needed the most, never came. Our lead role literally never showed up. Since all of our actors were teens she was also the only person with a car, which was a crucial part of it... So we scrapped it!
H: Oh that doesn't sound nice at all .. pretty rude if you ask me.
C: Yeah well, struggles of having no money.
H: So this new idea, how did it develop.. Now just bare with me here audience but I have seen the opening of this film and I just want your opinion on this very small clip.
*"Youuu lieeee.... come down to the garage" plays* * small silence, audience cheers*
H: How .. Why on earth did you think of a creepy santa like that!
C: Well it basically came from the fact that it was in december when we finally had gotten an idea,that firstly, had very limited actors/ actresses, meaning reliability wasn't an issue, an original idea with links to previous horror movies, creating intertextuality to widen the audience appeal, had a recurring theme, and most importantly scared the s*** out of u.
*quickly covers mouth and looks in embarrassment, audience cheers.*
C: But yeah .. we needed a scary figure and since christmas was in our mind we thought, "Hey why not a killing santa?" It has also been done before in black christmas and christmas evil, so we knew it would work well.
H: Amazing, we'll be right back after this small ad break!
*ad about a gimble*
H: Hello and welcome back, now we will go through some of the struggles throughout the development of this film. Now as said before people might be wandering why I asked for Oliver's phone. Well here is the reason. I will be reading some texts between the team.
*audience cheers*
*text sequence plays out, Oliver is visually embarrassed and reacts accordingly*
H: Well, its time to move on, the channel wants to air some weird drone race now.. Hope it doesn't end up like the one you planned to use!
H: Thanks for stopping by and talking to us today about the new film Christmas Sleigher.
H: Ladies and gentlemen give it up for Oliver!
*audience cheers*
*fade, cameras pan put as oliver leaves the scene*
Showing posts with label planning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label planning. Show all posts
Thursday, 29 March 2018
Wednesday, 28 March 2018
EVAL SCRIPT: Q2 INTERVIEW
Interview:
I - Interviewer
PE - Possible Employee
I: Hello, and welcome to this Skype interview, I have reviewed your profile and you are a possible candidate for this positions. So tell me a little about who you are.
PE: I am a current member of the Christmas Sleigher movie coming out next year. I am in charge of finding a distributor and getting audience feedback to improve our movie.
So far we have only created a movie opening, however we have spent hours, researching and engaging with the target, secondary and on some occasions, people we wouldn't even consider as a audience.
I: Wonderful, now tell me, on your CV it says how you are actively using something called "Microsoft Teams" to communicate and release rough cuts of your film to an audience, tell me more about this.
PE: Yes, I have used this program many times for feedback and possible help from another film production group, where we have shared opinions about each others movies. We have also received feedback from an older audience and younger. We have used this program to interact with ages ranging from 14 - 40+ years. This has helped us immensely and has shown us just how important it is to engage with an audience. It's how we will sell our product after all.
*person walks in and starts messing about trying to "steal" the show. Messes about and is overall silly, PE ignores everything going on behind him*
I: I think someone has walked in..
PE: Don't worry about him/her s/he always does this..
I: ok... Anyways, you mention how social media is a great way to market your film, there surely must be other opportunities you can offer us.
PE: Yes, generating hype is one thing however, it is useless if no one knows about the film. For this we would need a professional company who are willing to take the financial risk to market our movie, henceforth the distributor comes into play. As this is an indie company I am applying to, therefore we would have to be realistic and try to find a distributor who not only specialises in our genre, but also one who is willing to take that risk as said before. This could be very hard for this company at times as we would most likely make micro-budget movies with a more social realist genre than your typical americanised, over stereotyped hollywood movie. I mean we don't want the same to happen like our competitors warp and their movie Tyrannosaur haha.
I: That's quite good, i'm impressed, however how would we even get noticed? What happens if wouldn't get any distribution?
*person gets bored and walks out*
PE: This can happen too but that only means we have to work harder to get our movie to the right company.. no biggie. First we would need to try and get screenings everywhere and we would most definitely want to screen in London, TIFF, Sundance and other famous film festivals. A simple screening in London could show our movie to lots of distributors who might be interested in taking us. However, if this fails we would try and distribute onto Amazon, Netflix and even Hulu. Getting onto Amazon and Hulu isn't as difficult as Netflix. On Netflix we need to be nominated onto the "Queue demand" list, meaning we will already have needed to market our film. Amazon and Hulu we can use an aggregator, where we pay a small fee and they will immensely help our chances to getting onto both services.
I: And if all else fails, then what?
*Person returns with cutting board and starts cutting cucumbers in the background, the proceeds to eat them very loudly*
PE: I would try getting financing from financing companies such as FILM4 or even get government grants. This has been used in the past and would benefit us. *under breath* excuse me could you plese be quiet!
I: (Awkardly waits a few seconds) Alright, I'm very impressed with you so far, you seem like a valid candidate. I will get back to you within 4 weeks and we will create a contract. Thank you for your time!
PE: Thank you, look forward to see what happens! Goodbye!
I: Bye!
*0.5 seconds before the call ends PE turns around violently and is in a threatening stance*
I - Interviewer
PE - Possible Employee
I: Hello, and welcome to this Skype interview, I have reviewed your profile and you are a possible candidate for this positions. So tell me a little about who you are.
PE: I am a current member of the Christmas Sleigher movie coming out next year. I am in charge of finding a distributor and getting audience feedback to improve our movie.
So far we have only created a movie opening, however we have spent hours, researching and engaging with the target, secondary and on some occasions, people we wouldn't even consider as a audience.
I: Wonderful, now tell me, on your CV it says how you are actively using something called "Microsoft Teams" to communicate and release rough cuts of your film to an audience, tell me more about this.
PE: Yes, I have used this program many times for feedback and possible help from another film production group, where we have shared opinions about each others movies. We have also received feedback from an older audience and younger. We have used this program to interact with ages ranging from 14 - 40+ years. This has helped us immensely and has shown us just how important it is to engage with an audience. It's how we will sell our product after all.
*person walks in and starts messing about trying to "steal" the show. Messes about and is overall silly, PE ignores everything going on behind him*
I: I think someone has walked in..
PE: Don't worry about him/her s/he always does this..
I: ok... Anyways, you mention how social media is a great way to market your film, there surely must be other opportunities you can offer us.
PE: Yes, generating hype is one thing however, it is useless if no one knows about the film. For this we would need a professional company who are willing to take the financial risk to market our movie, henceforth the distributor comes into play. As this is an indie company I am applying to, therefore we would have to be realistic and try to find a distributor who not only specialises in our genre, but also one who is willing to take that risk as said before. This could be very hard for this company at times as we would most likely make micro-budget movies with a more social realist genre than your typical americanised, over stereotyped hollywood movie. I mean we don't want the same to happen like our competitors warp and their movie Tyrannosaur haha.
I: That's quite good, i'm impressed, however how would we even get noticed? What happens if wouldn't get any distribution?
*person gets bored and walks out*
PE: This can happen too but that only means we have to work harder to get our movie to the right company.. no biggie. First we would need to try and get screenings everywhere and we would most definitely want to screen in London, TIFF, Sundance and other famous film festivals. A simple screening in London could show our movie to lots of distributors who might be interested in taking us. However, if this fails we would try and distribute onto Amazon, Netflix and even Hulu. Getting onto Amazon and Hulu isn't as difficult as Netflix. On Netflix we need to be nominated onto the "Queue demand" list, meaning we will already have needed to market our film. Amazon and Hulu we can use an aggregator, where we pay a small fee and they will immensely help our chances to getting onto both services.
I: And if all else fails, then what?
*Person returns with cutting board and starts cutting cucumbers in the background, the proceeds to eat them very loudly*
PE: I would try getting financing from financing companies such as FILM4 or even get government grants. This has been used in the past and would benefit us. *under breath* excuse me could you plese be quiet!
I: (Awkardly waits a few seconds) Alright, I'm very impressed with you so far, you seem like a valid candidate. I will get back to you within 4 weeks and we will create a contract. Thank you for your time!
PE: Thank you, look forward to see what happens! Goodbye!
I: Bye!
*0.5 seconds before the call ends PE turns around violently and is in a threatening stance*
Saturday, 24 February 2018
PODCAST 10: Recent Activities:
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This is the 10th podcast, in this podcast we talk about the titles we are going to use, how we are going to make multiple and choose based off of audience feedback, how the drone we wished to use for our establishing shots is broken and the rough cut we have finished
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This is the 10th podcast, in this podcast we talk about the titles we are going to use, how we are going to make multiple and choose based off of audience feedback, how the drone we wished to use for our establishing shots is broken and the rough cut we have finished
TiITLES The Ones We Will Use
- LugNut Productions and Clinnick Media
- A Gingerbread Films production
- In association with Twisted Films
- An Oliver Stricker film
- Ailsa Sarah
- Co -starring Christian Stricker
- With Aiden Rigby
- Introducing Julie Bek
- Casting by James Clinnick
- Music composed by Nathan Guth
- Costumes designed by Christian Stricker
- Editor Oliver Stricker
- Director of photography Michael Goi
- Production designer Marek Dobrowolski
- Screenplay by James Clinnick
- Executive producers James Wong Jason Blum
- Directed by Oliver Stricker
ROUGH CUT 3
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Our newest rough cut where we have 90% of all the clips included. We have identified the clips we need to add and will have a new rough cut produced very soon after. We have to include our own made sound effects but these will mostly outline the final product.
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Our newest rough cut where we have 90% of all the clips included. We have identified the clips we need to add and will have a new rough cut produced very soon after. We have to include our own made sound effects but these will mostly outline the final product.
Thursday, 22 February 2018
VODCAST 6: Slasher Titles and the Titles we will use
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In this vodcast we go over the titles used in 6 different slasher movies and we talk about how they are effective. We go over the way the titles are designed to connote the horror genre. We also go over the fonts we will be using for our own titles and personal preferences along with audience feedback.
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In this vodcast we go over the titles used in 6 different slasher movies and we talk about how they are effective. We go over the way the titles are designed to connote the horror genre. We also go over the fonts we will be using for our own titles and personal preferences along with audience feedback.
Tuesday, 20 February 2018
SAMPLE SCENE Killing scene (SOUND EDITING NOT DONE)
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Here is a rough-cut without sound effects of how the killing scene is going to play out. It is a base design and needs improvement. This needs to be refined and added to the newest rough cut which will be uploaded soon.
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Here is a rough-cut without sound effects of how the killing scene is going to play out. It is a base design and needs improvement. This needs to be refined and added to the newest rough cut which will be uploaded soon.
What we have filmed / what we need
To Film:
- Establishing shots
- More realistic opening of door during garage scene
- Better false scare
Have Filmed:
- Bedroom scene
- Jigsaw like Santa on t.v
- Stabbing
- Getting dressed
Thursday, 1 February 2018
PLANNING Scenes to Reshoot
1. Establishing shots with drone
2. False scare
3. Add shot variety with false scare to show fear
4. Tiffany needs to stay scared for longer, use angles to show this
5. Whenever there is a SFX used to show fear adjust camera
6. Shot variety of going down stairs
7. arguing about going to garage
Overall:
- failure to reflect some key general + genre conventions
- some audio issues- editing pace and length of takes generally- taking out some shots that don't really add much- general lack of cross-cutting as a tension-building device- lack of shot variety in several sequences (especially 'cutaway' shots)
2. False scare
3. Add shot variety with false scare to show fear
4. Tiffany needs to stay scared for longer, use angles to show this
5. Whenever there is a SFX used to show fear adjust camera
6. Shot variety of going down stairs
7. arguing about going to garage
- failure to reflect some key general + genre conventions
- some audio issues- editing pace and length of takes generally- taking out some shots that don't really add much- general lack of cross-cutting as a tension-building device- lack of shot variety in several sequences (especially 'cutaway' shots)
Wednesday, 24 January 2018
PLANNING Re-Pitch
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A small powerpoint going over the recent rough cuts we made as a group and how my blog is, in strengths and weaknesses. We also go over our target audience and why it is so. For example male / female gaze (in powerpoint). We also go over our audience feedback received throughout our early filming stages.
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A small powerpoint going over the recent rough cuts we made as a group and how my blog is, in strengths and weaknesses. We also go over our target audience and why it is so. For example male / female gaze (in powerpoint). We also go over our audience feedback received throughout our early filming stages.
PODCAST 9: Review of first draft
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Here we go over the things we thought as a group could be improved with "Christmas Sleigher Rough Cut 1"
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Here we go over the things we thought as a group could be improved with "Christmas Sleigher Rough Cut 1"
Tuesday, 23 January 2018
SAMPLE SCENE Stabbing Sound Effect
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We used a watermelon and stabbed it a bunch of times to achieve the verisimilitude and sound effects of an actual person being stabbed.
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We used a watermelon and stabbed it a bunch of times to achieve the verisimilitude and sound effects of an actual person being stabbed.
Friday, 19 January 2018
PLANNING Location Scouting
This is the first location we where thinking of for our zombie hybrid film opening, however that idea got changed quickly. It is in a farm area and would have been great for the opening scene.
This is the house we were planning to use for our film opening but we agree that it seemed to be in a location where there is little to no isolation due to it being a triple house with neighbours either side.
The next location we thought of was just a garage and from the outside it looks very isolated and scarry and looks like a run down place perfect for a slasher film. However it is really just a garage and that is evident from the outside so it wouldn't work as a building that we were supposedly going to film in.
Our final choice was this house. It had a garage (even an extended one) and it had the windows and blinds which we used in the room for out film opening. We thought that this house would achieve verisimilitude as it ticks all the conventions of a house in a slasher opening.
This is the garage we decided to use with a few of the props moved around. The garage is not modern or in pristine condition so we thought it suited a killing scene well.
Wednesday, 10 January 2018
INDUSTRY RESEARCH Big 6 Power
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This shows how the big 6 are the most dominant companies. All the top 23 movies released in 2017 were made by a Big 6 company whereas other companies and subsiduries lie further down.
BoxOfficeMojo
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This shows how the big 6 are the most dominant companies. All the top 23 movies released in 2017 were made by a Big 6 company whereas other companies and subsiduries lie further down.
BoxOfficeMojo
Saturday, 6 January 2018
PLANNING Drone crash
Here is footage of the drone that crashed that we were going to use... It happens around the 3 minute mark.
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Tuesday, 26 December 2017
PODCAST 7: Going over first real draft
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Here we go over the different ideas we have from changing the first rough cut. We will go over certain problems with shooting / acting.
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Here we go over the different ideas we have from changing the first rough cut. We will go over certain problems with shooting / acting.
Saturday, 23 December 2017
Thursday, 14 December 2017
JC Production Schedule
Friday 15th:
- Finish call sheets and story board
Sunday Morning 17th:
- Setup garage and sets
- Test gagging and tie up of the boy
Sunday Afternoon 17th:
- Film all establishing shot
- Living room scene
- Hallway scene
- Garage scene
- Reaction to death scene
Tuesday 19th:
- Shots of Santa on the TV
- Slashing scene
Wednesday 20th:
- Sound FX recording
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