Unit 2 - Pre-production and planning

Film Investments: Block Buster Films: Black and White - shows serious attire, more likely to be taken seriously. The point of the website is for the portfolio to give the film makers exposer - meaning they are able to get money Private investers means you are more likely to get bigger sums of money The quotes and bullet points are morely to bring in investors as they will provide rewards for the money. Making it seem easier to invest and make money from it will bring more people. The portfolio means that users can look through successful and unseuccessful ideas in order to make their ideas successful. Creative Europe: What they do: -They host events and attended events across the UK. -Organise their own free seminars and workshops about creative Europe. -They attend conferences, festival, and markets. -Funding available through Creative Europe for professionals and organizations -- in creative, cultural and audiovisual sectors. How they help: - T...

  Trainspotting Not following the law - larger than life characters 1996 - of its time Covered guns, drugs and fighting. Over the top version of what was going on in life. Danny Boyle - director - £3.5 million budget Screen play and screen play writer before a film can be made - John Hodge Noel Gay, rights the thhe book, wanted to be co-producer. Problems, different team.  Finance  Pitch idea to investors in order to gain money. Scott Rudin - $250,000 to film anything, investor. But not enough - plus Scott from Hollywood. Channel 4 step-up and fund entire film - investor. No money until the rights to the book. 2% of the film budget (£30,000), not co-producers, name check in credits and share of profits from film. Now team can come and pre-production starts.  Pre-production Story board Costumes, casting, location scouting, art deparment - look of the film Run up period Trainspotting 7 weeks. Now 3 - 6 months Producer most important component...

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/may/31/hollywood-and-tv-put-the-squeeze-on-uks-low-budget-film-makers#img-1 Small productions struggle to hit the big screen, wider audience for  bigger budget and bigger star TV dramas and big hollywood superhero movies. Because there is a big audience for superhero movies, they are constantly being made, making it harder in get the go ahead for smaller, low bugdets smaller films. The number of UK made films costing from £500,000 to about £30m to make fell from 77 to 60 between 2014 and 2015. This is the lowest number made since 2006, according to annual figures published by the British Film Institute (BFI). At the other end of the scale Hollywood blockbusters made in the UK, such as Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and Alien: Covenant, which make up the main share of the £1.6bn feature film market, remain rocksteady, with just under 20 films produced in 2015. David Hancock - explains why the $11bn (£8.5bn) US box office as a perfect exa...

text2mindmap.com/iALGka7 This is the link to my mind-map about pre-production. I am not sure what else to add, and I have done all of this via my own research. I was asked to find out what Pre-production in media. There are many different types of that I could find, however, there was only a certain amount of information about them on the internet, and the check list of each different section was limited. From this I have learnt that Pre-production is a very important stage which is required in order for the main project or idea to go ahead. It will make it easier and make it run smoother when the main event is put into place. It is similar to a plan that you would create before starting the main project. However, all the pre-productions are very different from one and another. This will help me in the Unit as the units main heading is planning and preproduction.