Distributors [Draft]

Film distribution is a precarious business and, as such, companies tend to appear, merge or vanish overnight. Distributors tend to have rights to films for a limited period and that many titles that were released in the UK 10 or so years ago may no longer be available for booking.

What they do?

Their primary aims are to:

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  Promote diversity in exhibition content, audience and location.

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  Develop a culturally-led approach to an economically sustainable independent exhibition sector.

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  Provide access to industry leading best-practice exhibitor training.

Distributers:

20th Century Fox

BFI Distribution

Universal

Walt Disney

Warner Bros

Where the info was obtained:

[http://www.independentcinemaoffice.org.uk/distributors.html] 

Target Audience & Notional BBFC

Being an independent film, i wiould expect this movie to be an 18 rating from the bbfc, as it depicts realistic knife crime that would be imitatable behaviour.

Target audience:

Age: Mid teens to late twenties. Unfortunately the chances of it recieving a 15 certificate are margnial

Ethnicity: The inductory sequence we are producing has only three characters but the rest of the story leaves plenty of roles of roles for non-caucasian characters to play.

Gender:

Socio-Economic Groupings

Nationaity/region:

Aimed at a British audience. Will appeal to northerners as it is set in north of england



Social Grades:
Social grades are used to classify people. This is important for media companies as it helps identify the composition of their audience, and how much they can charge for advertising.

The following categories are used for classifying an audience:

A: Higher managerial and professional.
B: Intermediate managerial and professional.
C1: Supervisory, clerical, junior managerial.
C2: Skilled manual workers.
D: Semi-skilled and unskilled manual workers.
E: State pensioners, casual workers.

This classification was devised decades ago, and does not accurately reflect modern society. This limits its usefulness for marketing and advertising. The worst of these drawbacks are:

It classifies the household on a single individual's occupation.
It ignores wealthy, non-working people and self-employed people.
It contains no information about the size of households.
It is not specific enough, 55% of the British population are ABC1!
This doesn't mean that the system is useless, however there are better alternatives.

Narative theory

We have learned that the Vladimir proposed there are 7 chaacters archetypes within the storyline.

These are:

The villian-struggles against the hero

The donor-Prepares the hero or gives the hero some magical object.

The (magical) helper-helps the hero or gives the object.

The Princess and her father-gives the task to the hero, identifies the false hero,marries the hero.

The dispatcher-character who makes the lack known and sends the hero off

The hero or victim/Seeker hero-reacts to the donor, weds the princess.

False hero-takes cred for the heros actions

New Production logo

Here is the new Hello Dave Production logo. I drew the outlines of the images in Macromedia Flash MX 2004, coloured them in paint.net and animated them in sony vegas pro 8. The music is a royalty free remake of the jaws theme, from www.productiontrax.com Voice acting by sigmar, who insists that he doesn't need any credit. I shall mention him here anyway.

Audience feedback on out animatic

The feedback from our class has been very useful in helping us modify our original idea into something better. We have listened to advise and decided to introduce all of the victims in the opening scene. This is more conventional to a slasher

The class was able to follow what was going on in the animatic and make some good points on how to improve the idea. These will be implemented in our final storyboard.

Genres + Openings: Codes + Conventions

Productions co logos:

Name: Keep your friends close, we see the logo first followed by the title.

There will be 5 character that will be introduced , one of the characters is the screen queen (megan herbet).

Genres & openings : codes & conventions
The genre we will look at in detail is horror and specifically the sub genre of slasher! There is one exception of this in the list below....Obsession....we looked at this because it uses photos in the opening, this is similar to what we want to open with.

The genre we will look at in detail is horror and specifically the sub genre of slasher! There is one exception of this in the list below....Obsession....we looked at this because it uses photos in the opening, this is similar to what we want to open with.

Friday 13th Marcus Nispel (2009) $16m

The production logo is a red version of Paramount, New Line Cinema and Platinum Dunes, this connotes the genre is horror. There is non-diagetic tension music which starts on a black screen and bridges to the image. The font for the credits is a serif font in white on a black background, this signifies that the film is serious. There is anchorage of the day 'June 13th 1983'. There is exposition of where the film is set 'Lamp Crystal Lake' A mix or diagetic and non diagetic sound. Opens with flashing images. When thunder sounds, the opening image of a girl running appears on screen. Titles last for 3.27 mins





Friday 13th Sean S. Cunningham (1980) $700,000

Opens with Paramount titles. A sans serif font is used to anchor the place, time and date. There is an audio bridge (frogs croaking) from a black screen to the opening shots. The scene is taken in the 1st person at times and has camera shack, this creates a realistic feel. Tension music with string instruments is played. A mix of diagetic and non-diagetic sound. Titles last for 5.14 mins.


Friday 13th II Steve Miner (1981) $1m

Friday 13th Part III Steve Miner (1982) $4m

An American Werewolf In London John Lanas (1981)
Music : non-diagetic classic rock. Universal logo (old one) with a serif font. All titles in serif font, this signifies documentary style and is more formal. Establishing long shots of the setting. The opening 2 mins is establishing shots and non-diagetic sound. 2 shots of characters possibly central protagonists, signifies that there together and important. Strong language is used, this signifies that the film is for an older audience.






Friday 13th Part V

A Nightmare On Elm Street Wes Craven (1984) $1.8m
Sans serif font. Tension music with heavy breathing. Has a false scare (sheep). Lots of shot variation. Starts with a dream and the central protagonist wakes up at the end of the scene.







Obsession Brain De Palma (1976) $1.4m


starts with an audio bridge then goes to still images with a black cut in between. The titles are on the other half of the screen when the stills are up. Serif font in blue. Slow zoom. Has written anchorage.








Texas Chainsaw Massacre Marcus Nispel (2003) $9.2m

Texas Chainsaw Massacre Tobe Hooper (1974) $83,532

Red title sequence signifies blood and the red pictures also signify gore and blood. Pictures fade out then fade into title of film (yellow) and the picture behind is red. There is an ongoing voice over which starts on a black screen. Opening shot of a dead decomposing body, then zooms out into a long shot showing another dead body positioned on top of a grave in a grave yard, with a orange and red sky in the background which signifies horror. There are flashing pictures of decomposing body parts which fade in and out. credits in a serif font that signify formality and fact.



Scream Wes Craven (1996) $14m


There is a overlap between a scream and a phone ringing. Close up of facial expression. Establishing shot of haze and forest. Close up and cut shots of pop corns about to burst, this signifies that something unexpected in going to occur. The phone keeps ringing, this signifies tension. There is a close up of a hand reaching towards a door handle, this builds up tension, then she knocks on the door. The music dynamics slowly build throughout the opening.





Halloween John Carpenter (1978) $320,000

Psycho Alfred Hitchcock (1960) $806,947

Americal Pyscho Mary Harron (2000) $8m

white sans serif font over the top of the scene. Has sound but not able to tell if diagetic or non-diagetic.











Child's Play Tom Holland (1988) $9m



United Artists Pictures Inc. Sans serif credits. No music playing but has diagetic sounds of running and gunshots. Opens with a action sequence so is more like an action film of thriller, possibly detective. Eerie music starts (strings). Has supernatural elements. Opening sequence lasts 5.59 mins.

Prelim task

This is the prelim task acted by me and johnny.