We learnt how to use different camera equipment e.g. Tripods and Cannon cameras and iphone cameras. We learnt how to set up the cameras along with the using the Apple Mac computers.
In our groups we took it in turns passing around the camera equipment and learnt the rules of passing the camera and equipment around. The person passing the camera has to say 'Yours' and the person receiving the camera has to say 'Mine' this helps reduce the risk of dropping the camera. We learnt how to set up the tripod and how to "bubble" it using the spirit level to make the camera balanced and in focus.
In our groups we are using Final Cut Pro and iMovie on the iMacs in the media studio. We learnt how when uploading our footage, we should create a folder to keep the shots. These folders are called bins and the unedited footage from cameras are called rushes.
Here we are two photos of us setting up our tabletop shot.
PREP Your RESEARCH task: Pick any 2 examples of film title sequences and make a simple list of the credits, as below.
Get Out (Horror/Thriller):
- Production Company – Universal pictures, Blumhouse/QC entertainment, Monkerypaw productions
- Director - Jordan Peele
- Starring – Daniel Kaluuya, Allisson Williams, Bradley Whitford
- Title - Get out
- Starring – Caleb Laundry Jones, Stephen root, Lakeith Stanfeild, Catherine Keener
- Casting - Terri Taylor, csa
- Costume designer - Nadine Haders
- Special make up effects supervisor
- Sound designer
- Music - Michael Abels
- Film editor - Gregory Plotkin
- Production designer - Rusty Smith
- Director of photography - Toby Oliver ACS
- Executive producer - Raymond Mansfield, Couper Samuelson, Shaun Redick, Jeanette Volturno
- Based on novel
- Screenplay
- Producer -Sean McKittrick p.g.a, Jason Blum p.g.a Edward H. Hamm Jr, p.g.a, Jordan Peele, p.g.a
- Director- Jordan Peele
Guardians of the Galaxy (Si-Fi/ Adventure):
- Production Company – Marvel studios, Sarofsky Corp.
- Starring – Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista,
- Title - Guardians of the Galaxy
- Starring – Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Lee Pace, Michael Rooker, Karen Gillan, Djimon Hounsou, John. C. Reilly, Glenn Close, Benicio del Toro,
- Casting - Sarah Halley Finn, C.S.A
- Costume designer - Alexandre Bryne
- Music supervisor - Dave Jordan
- Film editor - Fred Raskin, Craig Wood (ACE), Hughes Winborne (ACE)
- Production designer - Charles Wood
- Visual effects producer - Susan Pickett
- Visual effects supervisor - Stephane Ceretti
- Director of photography - Bem Davis, BSC
- Co-producers - David J. Grant, Jonathan Schwartz
- Executive producer - Nik Korda, Stan Lee, Victoria Alonso, Jeremy Latcham, Alan Fine, Louis D'esposito
- Producer - Kevin Feige, P. G. A
- Writers - James Gunn, Nicole Perlman
- Based on novel - marvel comic
Kezia Williams explained that, in a congested marketplace, a film distributors aim is too position a film in a way that it stood out for its target audience. Chris Bessling offered me a series of insights into how film distributors market a films USP(unique selling point) such as its star cast, provenance (such as its literal adaptation or biopic credentials), its wards and good reviews. It also said how to position the film as a unique cinema experience come the week of release.
Matt Smith of the FDA tells us that spend on digital has increased enormously. For instance, trailers are now cut for portrait viewing on smart phones. Digital includes all social media platforms (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram etc) that work as a synergetic whole in promoting a product. Matt Smith also refers to paid for marketing as a distinct form of free publicity. Social media can generate a viral market - free publicity.
I choose to make my collage on the film IT Chapter 2. This was because the film was the sequel to IT which earned over $700million. The genre of IT is horror and this would attract a certain type of audience to the film even before other people would have watched the trailers, or read the films instagram, facebook, twitter and website pages.
IT is about a group of friends coming together to over come the evil force which terrifies the children of the town every 27years when a clown (Pennywise) emerges from the sewers. It was directed by Andrés Muschietti. IT was an adaptation of the famous Stephen King novel. This meant that the film was a literary adaptation of the novel. After the huge success of the first IT movie IT Chapter 2 had a large following before the film had reached screens. IT chapter 2 is set 27 years later than the first IT film the characters, who are all adults and have lead separate lives are forced to come together one last time to defeat the even stronger Pennywise. Although having a large following from the first movie It Chapter 2 did not do as well as expected only earning $70million.
