Setting the scene

In preparation for filming, Sophie and myself took a trip to Ilkley moor to scout for a place to film. We found multiple possible sets, and made changes to the script as we were inspired by our fantasy accommodating surroundings. 

Here is a short video recording our excursion. 

Here is were we have decided to film, (pin on exact location). We will film in a reasonable wooded area, remote but not too far from the road (in order to carry props to the set). Because of the set we now have we will have to make some minor script adjustments to account for the placement on rocks etc.  

11/01/17 Costume trip

Today we visited a local to costume shop (Jay's fancy dress) for inspiration and this possible hire of costumes. However as a small retailer they're supply was limited. Although we were not overall impressed with any of the costumes, we have being provided with a backup source should no better costumes come available. 

Here is a the shop's website.

Media vocabulary

Audience - The groups of people that advertising and distribution of the film is done in mind of.

Institution - An Institution is any company/organisation that produces, distributes or exhibits films. This could be through marketing, production, distribution or regulation. An examples of this being the BBC.

Production - Production is the process of making a film. From the idea to the final master copy; including the script, filming and the soundtrack.

Subsidiary - A subsidiary is a company with voting stock that is more than 50% controlled by another company, usually referred to as the parent company or the holding company. A subsidiary is partly or completely owned by the parent company, which holds a controlling interest in the subsidiary company.

Distribution - Digital distribution is the delivery of the film to the audience.

Marketing - The promotion of a film, including market research and advertising.

Exhibition - This is showing films in cinemas or on DVD. Media attention through opening nights and premieres.

Horizontal integration - Horizontal Integration is a Media Company’s Ownership of several businesses of the same value. Horizontal integration is very common across media companies .

Vertical Integration - Vertical Integration is when a Media Company owns different businesses in the chain of production and distribution. For example, Disney; by owning parts every part of a production chain their profit is greater as the do not need to employ other companies.

Four Lions - Warp films

Directed by Chris Morris
Produced by Mark Herbert and Derrin Schlesinger
Distributed by Optimum Releasing and Drafthouse Films

Brief synopsis 

Four Lions is comedy featuring four struggling terrorists. 'Omar' is disillusioned about the treatment of Muslims around the world and is determined to become a soldier. This is the most exciting idea 'Waj' has ever heard. Opposed to Omar and everyone else on earth is the white Islamic convert 'Barry'. He’d realise he joined the cell to channel his nihilism – if he had half the self-knowledge of a duck. 'Faisal' is the odd man out. He can make a bomb – but he can’t blow himself up just now coz his sick dad has “started eating newspaper”. Instead he’s training crows to fly bombs through windows. This is what Omar has to deal with. They must strike a decisive blow on their own turf but can any of them strike a match without punching himself in the face?


Marketing 

Here is the trailer, within the first 10 seconds the film can be identified as a comedy. 

Production 

Researching for the film, Morris spent three years speaking to terrorism experts, police, the secret service, and imams, as well as ordinary Muslims, before writing the script in 2007.

The project was originally rejected by both the BBC and Channel 4 as being too controversial a topic. Morris suggested in a mass email, titled "Funding Mentalism", that fans could contribute between £25 and £100 each to the production costs of the film and would appear as extras in return. Funding was secured in October 2008 from Film 4 Productions and Warp Films, with Derrin Schlesinger & Mark Herbert producing. Filming began in Sheffield in May 2009.

Distribution, Horizontal and Vertical Integration 

The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2010 and was short-listed for the festival's World Cinema Narrative prize.The UK premiere took place at the National Media Museum as part of Bradford International Film Festival on 25 March 2010, and was followed by a nationwide release on 7 May.

Despite its acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival, Four Lions failed to find a distributor in the US for nine months, until the newly formed Drafthouse Films picked it up. The film had a limited release in the US on 5 November 2010.

Everest 

Directed by Baltasar Kormákur

Produced by Baltasar Kormákur, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Nicky Kentish Barnes, Brian Oliver, and Tyler Thompson

Brief synopsis

On the morning of May 10, 1996, climbers from two commercial expeditions start their final ascent toward the summit of Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth. With little warning, a violent storm strikes the mountain, engulfing the adventurers in one of the fiercest blizzards ever encountered by man. Challenged by the harshest conditions imaginable, the teams must endure blistering winds and freezing temperatures in an epic battle to survive against nearly impossible odds.

Budget: $55,000,000 (estimated)

These are the production companies that provided the finance: Working Title Films, Cross Creek pictures, and Walden Media. Other films that Working Title Films have also produced include, Bridget Jones's Diary, Les Miserables, Pride and Prejudice,  Four Weddings and a Funeral etc. 

Films that Cross Creek pictures have produced include, Black Mass, Rush Black Swan, The Woman in Black etc.

Walden Media have also produced, The Chronicles of Narnia (film trilogy), Journey to he Centre of the Earth, Bridge to Terabithia, Charlotte's Web.

The films Uk release day was 18 September, 2015, the distributor for this film was Universal Studios. Working Title Films is a subsidiary of Universal studios as it is a british film company owned by them. This also links the distributor to the production company as the distributors own the production company.There are signs of vertical integration from universal studios as they own different sections of production.

The world wide gross was $203,427,584. I would expect it to be shown in Ilkley Cinema if it was a new realise as it had a high production budget and interest. However interest didn't last long and other films could be ore popular and worth while to show.

Being able to rent it through various websites or accounts makes it available for home exhibition along with it being on DVD.

Screenplay

The screenplay is the script and often shooting directions of a story. Screen plays are written is a 12 point courier font, therefor a page of screen play is approximately one minute of film. Screen plays start with a master scene heading (also known as a "slug line") stating whether the scene is internal (inside) or external (outside). 

Screen plays are very economical with words, as on set they must be read quickly. Screen plays do not connote emotion, their only purpose is the briefly outline the film. 

Here is our screenplay; 

ANIDONE

By

Sophie Ferreira and Amy Spence

1. EXT. MOOR. NIGHT.

The sound of thunder breaks on a lonely moor side. A female creature, an ANIDONE, lies shivering in the scrub. Heavy rain cascades down accompanied by flashes of light. She lies partly covered by the undergrowth. Slowly she wakes.

DISSOLVE TO:

  2. EXT. MOOR. DAY

The ANIDONE begins to walk.

NARRATOR

It was foretold, that in the once thriving kingdom of Izlave, a corrosive group of beasts should arise from a storm. This group would be known as the Grezlik. Their indifferent set of morals policing a new nation; these five beasts would upturn the court of Aldar, ending the Monarchy. This tale was cursed to end in inordinate turmoil.

  3. EXT. MOOR - DAY

PHEX, an elf-like creature, appears from behind some rocks nearby. They join and begin to walk with Anidone, navigating rocks and following behind.

A face appears in a nearby stream, ZOCIL, gasping for air. The creature   clambers out of the stream, shrugging off the water like a dog. He proceeds to walk alongside Anidone and Phex.

TRESHARK, a man of the trees, comes bursting through the forest in order to follow behind the other characters.

DROAK, a well built beast clambers out strongly from behind a rock joining the line of walking characters.

4. EXT. MOOR - DAY

Characters walk together in a line. The Anidone slightly forward leading the line. Characters stop, standing at the edge of a clip/waterfall.