Our
production company name, ‘Yellow Gun Productions’ was decided upon as it
relates to our first media preliminary video. In this video we were asked to
demonstrate the new skills we had learned and the end scene was a one-on-one
pistol standoff in which the weaker opponent was shot with a banana. As
continuing with the initial group we had for this task, we came to the conclusion
that we wanted to use this for our future productions. In addition to this we
felt that displaying just a video with no sound just seemed unnatural,
therefore we chose a non-diegetic sound effect of a can ring-pull being pulled.
This appeared to add more effect to our ident and helped make it more
noticeable, consequently we stuck with this idea. We designed the ident as a
group and brought it to life using Adobe After Effects CC. This is a
professionally used program to create animation and special effects in films.
I have
chosen Universal Pictures/Studios as although they have produced several films
in a different genre they have a huge range of movies some of which are
thrillers and in particular, being the most well-known, The Bourne Trilogy. In
addition to this, Universal have produced films such as the 1991 Cape Fear
Remake, Psycho and Zero Dark Thirty. The Bourne Trilogy films and Psycho not
only had a major influence on the methods and techniques we used to shoot ours but
also are very successful.
Universal
is an American motion picture studio that is known for its diverse volume of
films that have been being produced for nearly a century. They are based in
Universal City, California and are one of ‘the big six’ production companies
still going today, the others including Warner Brothers, Paramount Pictures,
Walt Disney, Columbia Pictures and 20th Century Fox. Comcast now own
and run Universal Studios including the production and distribution of films
and also the (American) theme parks.
Funding
a film such as ours we would expect to not need a huge sum of money. Because we
would not be using a great deal of special effects such as massive explosions
and professional animation but rather using storyline, excellent camerawork and
editing to bring the film to life, it means that the cost of paying someone to
do these effects is very little or none at all. Nevertheless for a film based
around the methods above we would require a very good cast for the movie to
have a good impact on our target audience. Although this being true the number
of actors would also not be too great, lowering the budget again. For the money
we would need to create and produce a film like ours we would have to rely a
great deal of funding it ourselves as we are a miniscule production company, in
comparison, and a large investment would be hard to acquire. However pitching the
ideas we have and the introduction should be a viable option for investors. This
would hopefully take a percentage of the budget away in return for a slice of
profit. If this was to not work as anticipated and most of the budget did have
to be funded ourselves this would not necessarily be a bad thing as the profit
margin for our production company would be greater.
In a
major film production company there is commonly one person assigned to a
specific task. However due to the small group number, being four, each member
was forced to take on and carry out multiple roles within the production team. The
problem we were left with was that no person had a specific role and therefore
when we created our titles we chose to just show each members name. Examples of
the jobs that you would likely to see in the opening titles or end credits of a
film would be:
·
Director
·
Script
Supervisor
·
Line
Producer
·
Production
Manager
·
Production
Accountant
·
Location
Manager
·
Director
of Photography
·
Camera
Operator
·
Lighting
Technician
·
Production
Designer
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