Media Warp Fact Sheet

Preliminary film - scene opening

Film Financing

how to secure funding.

Goverment Grants, you can secure goverment grants if you can benefit the country in :

• employment
• development of national culture
• advertising a location for international aundiences

these people who fund this is usually the Uk film councel or the National lottery there are also tax schemes, these are like goverment grants but on a larger scale in order to get films back into our country. If films are shot in the uk and they employ british people local to the area in a fair number your likely to get these grants, so you will get a tax reduction if your fit this critearia.

Pre sales.
it goes from the making of the film to the distrubtion and marketing to the Exhibition. this is how you secure most of your money int he distribution of the film.

Production documentury

In class we watched a film on how films are made, we wrote down notes about the film.

The producer, job is to look at the bigger picture to allow the Dirtector to get his vision on the screen, in oder to do this hehas 4 key jobs:

• Gets the Funding
• Develops it
• Helps with making the film
• Takes it into Production

The script, the script may be changed 5-6 times, It is the blue print of the film, after the script writter has written the script the script developer re-writes it. How do you tell if the script is a good script? its down to gut feeling and knowledge.

The Cast, the cast is picked by the Producer and the Writter for the film. these also choose the screen writing. The cast is picked on who plays the most true to the script even if they move or change things to make it adapt to them
The cast and the crew should be the people who attract the finacing, if they are English producers, they  are usually funded by the bbc / channel 4, regional funding, and group funding.  In the uk and world wide you can use co-operation deals.Independant production deals means that they have enough in the film to get control of the film.
You always shoot the hard parts first.

Anaylse of Prelim

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Overview of pitch

We were given the target audience of Middle aged men of working class to produce an idea of a film to, we weren't too sure what to do. We eventually came up with some ideas that middle aged working class men would be interested in:

• Family assosiated as they have been dragged to the cinema by their wife/partner and their children.
• family comedy
• a film from their childhood redone so they can still reminise
• a film that they can relate back to their life/childhood.

After putting up alot more that the above ideas these are the few that we thought we should relate them to, We eventually came up of a film that is about 2 boys, 2 very opperstie boy's who go to the same school. The opening to the Film would be 2 people leaving each other taking a child each (done in black and white, to show that it was a long time ago,) then we'd show the film later on, say 15 years down the line, here we would show two boys, leading different lives; one with their family and one with their own. The boys would bump into each other time and time again. Still showing their different lives, flashing from one life to another. One of the boys being the 'hard man' of the school the other being the 'skater' who plays music etc. Both of them looking simular with some features. Then the 'skater' boy falls inlove with the 'hard' boys younger step sister after taking alot of abouse and a good few hard hits from the 'hard man' the 'skater' boy still stays with the girl. But things get complicated, and the girl ends up pregnant, and the 'skater' and the girl disappear, in this the boys family unite to try and find them. undiscovered Truths comeout..making life alot more complicated than meets the eye.

American Beauty work.

We watched the opening scene of 'American Beauty' in our lesson, we were asked to jot down notes on the Body Language, voice, the clothing, and the mise-en-scene including, colours, backgrounds, lighting and the colours.  
          these are the notes i took down to about Lester Burnham:

• he has simple body Language which would indicate that he is bored.
• The women have more control.
• he is  going through his midlife crisis.
• We see the bit where he's looking through the window this indicates that he is trapped.
• his voice starts of dull and at the end it shows some hope coming into his life.
• his voice when he is talking to his wife, is mutual giving of the idea that he is bored with his life. 
• His monotone Voice links to his simple Body language. his Monotone Body Language could link to his monotone life style and inturn his monotone dream.
•  He has boring clothing, also indicating his monotone life style.
• All the colours in his life, the scenes, the lighting, his clothing, everything is monotone, he has no life. they're all pale pastel colours, then there is a little bit of red which comes in... this stands out so much against the red.. showing his sign of hope.
• he was the one that was late, she drove the car, he sat in the bank. this is so against all sterio types.
• his Daughter is called "jane" a plain boring simple name.

All of my notes, stress his montone lifestlye. This tells us about his life and how he has been and always will have a monotone lifestlye, A "plain jane" life style. This link to the name of his daughter, jane. his whole life has been dull like the colours of the scenes.. but at the end of the opening scenes, we see the him look to the cloud, his voice gets hopefull, and we see a new colour, a brighter colour, hopefully this is the truning point of Lester life.

Representation

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Representation. The man.

My first impression of this man was that he was a man who has travelled the man, and seen alot. That he was a middle class man, as his trousers are sewn up neatly and the hems turned up perfectly. you can tell he is a man that is confident because of his posture, wanting to be unnoticed possibly, as his hat covers his eyes.