The essential stages of film making

There are many stages a film/movie may have to go through in order for it to be successful. The most common method’s use stages like small goals they have to achieve before the final product.

First stage is hard yet simple. Create a story that will appeal to a wide enough audience for it to be excepted as good narrative. Its all about the insertion. The best films/best works of art (not what the box office says) are the films that have a story with grate/big public interest. Example of that would be war films, especially American war films. War story's have a huge amount of public interest because they are about historical events that changed the very way we live life today and how the effects of war create deep emotions that look very good on screen.

In my film idea I wanted to raise an issue about our society that is not really spoken about. The idea that teenagers are going through constant stress because they believe that if they don’t get the mark they don’t get the life. Ill go into this more on the next slide.

My storyMy story raises an issue that can potentially relate to over 14. 5 million in the Uk . According to 2009 figures studied by educational reporter Sean Coughlan. 1in4 People are now in education or are in a vocational course. Because the story I created is heavily based on how education affects young teen’s, there is a large amount of people that may be able to relate to the film in some way. This means my narrative/story could potential be a success. The best way to compare my films affective idea would be to an older film, Good Will Hunting, witch I have mentioned a lot and there's a reason. In Good Will Hunting there is a scene were to two main characters, Will Hunting and Chuckie Sullivan have a deep convocation involving issues on life that wasn't really spoken about prior to that scene. This scene is one of the most memorable for me and in my opinion I feel like that part of the film spoke to a lot of people on a personal level. “Cuz tomorrow I'm gonna wake up and I'll be 50, and I'll still be doin' this shit”. This quote is from the character Chuckie. Most people will be able to relate to this as most people have had a moment in there life were the realize unless they do soothing, they will be living the way they are forever. What's also interesting is that this scene shows that you don’t have to be smart to achieve. Will Hunting in the film is shown as the smartest person to ever live yet he still needs his friends advise to direct him on the right path. The story of a film needs to be relatable in some way, in order to become a grate film. Notice that its “Grate” not successful. A film that makes money does’t need to have a relatable storyline, or even a good story line at all. Again I feel my storyline could be relatable as it brings up subjects that a majority have ether gone through or going through.

The FinanceThe finance is essential to nowadays films. However in the past films such as the original Mad Max for example, have made films of literally favors and beers. George Miller wasn't even an official director at the time of making Mad Max. His budget was very limited to the point where he had to recycle props constantly and use cleaver shots to make the scene seem bigger than it is. However If you compare the original Mad Max to Mad Max Fury Road in budget there's a clear indication that the needs from yesterday are nothing compared to the needs today. Original Mad Max had a maximum of around 350, 000, Fury Road 150 million. Even small productions films like The Breakfast Club had a 1million budget and that film was literally shot in the same location throughout the film. Mad Max was (MAD MAX) with only a 350,000 budget. Comparing it to another film of its time The Deer Hunter – 15 million. The Finance is not everything but it is important if you were to require the A list actors, the best cameras, the right locations, the big realistic explosions, all of those stereo types that are very common in todays film. Comparing my film to Dead Man’s Shoes would be the best option as there were no A list actors/any “Hollywoodised" stereo types. Dead Mans Shoes 723,000 GBP compared to RocknRolla budget 18million USD seems like hardly anything. That said if I wanted to be industry standard budgeting I would need to have 900,000 – 1million. That said as well I recon I could do it with 1000 GBP. It would just take much longer. Obviously I didn't’t actually have to spend any money to create the title sequence. The camera was from the QE the actor/model was a close friend and the shots only took 3 days/about 5-6 hours of footage. Doing this has just gave me a better idea on how much money I may need to have to create work at industry standard.

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The Script workThe script is defiantly essential to a film. Is as essential to the point that without it product might not work at all. Scripts need all the details of everything. They help the actors know what they need to do. They help the camera guys get an idea on where to set up. Genially scripts are used as the backbone of the production unless they are using a story witch is still usually adapted into a script. Scripts are the go too when in doubt. However scripts don’t mean that whatever is in there will be on screen. Scripts can be changed an adapted. A very famous film in the 1950s, Sunset Boulevard is notorious for having an brilliantly crafted story but amazingly, somehow when they first began filming, the script was only finished a third of the way and still had plenty of story to be developed. This was because the production did not want the studio knowing they were making a film about the affects of stardom when it fades away and reflects on the film industry in a bad manor. A better example would be the 2001 film Jurassic Park 3 that went through the film without having a full script ever been made. This was because of complications with the original script that the director didn't’t agree with so he scraped it. This makes filming a much harder proses than it needs to be. Filming is already a hard proses and not having a script sort of takes away the final drive of why they are working hard in the first place. I've worked on productions in the pasted were there's not a fully established script and it becomes a nightmare. Trying to get into character that you barely know about makes you feel useless so you end up adapting your own ideas. Luckily the director agreed with my ideas but if he hadn't I would of just felt lost with not knowing what to do. Even in my title sequence I used my script to construct an idea that I could then subliminally add into the shots so that the feeling of the film/title sequence is correct.

People think making a script is hard because your essentially making a story. For me that’s not true. The hard part is being able to project your imagination onto screen with the limits you have.

The PackagingWhen the script has finally sat through all its intensive readings and passed they then have to diced how they are going to film the movie and who they are going to employ. They also start to think about how they are going to market it for the right audience. Depending on what type of production it is depends on how they will market it. If the film is dedicated to the art of film, the director and producer will pick actors who are the best for a role. If the production is only about the money they will pick the A list actors to do the roles that will hopefully grant them more attention and seriousness. The director would now have to start estimating how much the film is going to cost and how much they will need to sell to brake even. Again depending on the production, they will need to start looking at how they can maximize profits, such as lowering the age you are allowed to see the film. This its sort of like the considering proses/The thinking proses before practical proses. This proses makes sure they don’t run into any troubles down the line of making the film that could have been prevented earlier on. I didn't’t really have to focus on this element as I was only focused on the title sequence. However I did worry about getting the right actor and equipment at the start. I pretty much just booked the camera out drawn up some detailed shots I thought up in my head and then got a close friend who’s also been involved in acting in the passes that helped out massively. The biggest worry was getting it all filmed and edited in time but I made sure I booked out the right free time that worked around the actors and my own schedule. Thinkin

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The PreproductionWith financing being secured and all staff/actors are hired the preproduction can begin. Nothing much ells to say about that as it ’s the practical side of the production and I didn’t have to go through this proses all that much because the title sequence was fairly simple. What is very interesting is how the actors were trained in the preproduction of the 2001 Planet Of The Apes. A list actors were tasked with being as monkey like as possible for all aspects of mannerisms.. They were also graded on there performance as though they were at school. This was to make sure that when the actors were on screen they didn’t come off as being over the top and also made sure they went through the right training.

For my film I told the actor in the test screening, exactly what the character is suppose to be feeling so that he understood how to act. Because as an actor he knows how to appropriately act when given stimuli.

Post ProductionPost production is usaly introduced as soon as real raw footage and sound has been established. It’s the editing proses. In my opinion the most important. If edited right anything can look like a film. I've taken shoots in the past that look dreadful to the point I no longer want to keep filming but when its in the editing proses, the issues can be resolved. Even bad acting can be fixed in the edit as I've seen it done before. Editig pans and quick shots sort of work around the issues until they are no longer there. Obviously its much easer to get it right first time rather than taking 10-20 different angles from the same shot then picking out the best. Editing takes up a lot of time. Especially with all the CGI and graphical affects film makers are constantly adding to lower budget cost.

For my film I didn't’t start editing until I had all the shots from the first day because I knew the shots I had taken were the exact shots I wanted and I knew that I still had another day of filming with a better camera to do a second edit. My first edit was to get a look at what my finished product could look like and what I would need to improve on.

Back to the marketingWhilst the film is coming to its final touches, they now need to again look at how they are going to market there work to the right audience. This proses is very important because if they don’t get this right the product might not sell its full potential granting the film a title of a flop.

This is an element I also didn't’t need to look over as I wasn’t selling my product. I have also already been over the particular people I would market my film to so I don’t need to revise over that.

Star Wars is probably the best example of marketing. They pretty much did everything and anything to get people hyped up for The Force Awakens. This film had already been long awaited for all they had to do was by the name to sell the game. Disney didn’t have to use a list actor as the film is an A list film. It’s a story that has lived through two generations and now onto three with The Force Awakens. A very easy sell but even still they went to the absolute extremes to make sure this film would have the highest success rates it could get.

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Final stage Now the film has been viewed in the cinemas its time for the external revenue. The production keeps the wrights to the film and allows people to buy the additional rights to view it within the comfort of there home. DVD’s Luxury channels such as Sky movies, Hotel channels, flight entertainment and many more. Some movies may be adapted into franchises and games. Sorry to say this again but Star Wars spin offs were still being made way before 2015s Force Awakens.

Obviously another concept I didn't’t need to think about. However if I did come to that moment I would look at online company's that sold a film experience service such as Netflix and Amazon TV. With ever one had the most subscribed I would sell my rights to let others view but not keep.There's also a system where they sort of ret the rights for an amount of time and if it gets enough views they will pay for a longer contract or try to by the rights of viewing all together. With would mean I can ether sell my viewers rights for a large some that would stop people from buying the DVD/blue ray. Or they could be on a timed contract that only allows viewing for a certain amount of time.