Monday, 30 January 2012

Research into Insitutions that Distribute Similar Products

Twilight Saga: Eclipse - E1 Entertainment
- Street Dance: The Moves 2010
- Body Guards and Assassins 2009
- Strength and Honour 2007

http://www.imdb.com/company/co0283633/ Date: 30/01/2012

I think that this company might be interested in distributing my product because they have previously distributed films of a low-budget and some with a similar genre to mine such as The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.

Higanjima: Escape from Vampire Island - Manga Entertainment
- Tajomaru 2009
- Tokyo Zombie 2005
- Kamui 2009

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1156479/ Date: 30/01/2012

I think that Manga Entertainment may be interested in my product because they have also distributed films of a similar genre (Higanjima: Escape from Vampire Island) and some of low-budget. Since my product is similar to some already distributed by them, I think they would be willing to take a risk in distributing the product.

Ideas and Feedback

The ideas that I have for my product are;
- Genre - Horror/Supernatural mystery
- One or two characters - Protagonist Female and Antagonist Unknown
- Dark mise-en-scene - lighting, costume, performance
- Mainly close up and medium shots. Some hand held shots. Composed shots. Closed framing. Create feeling of entrapment or isolation.
- No dialogue. Creepy non-diegetic music and diegetic music.
Unsettling atmosphere. Mystery.
- Two locations - Forest - Empty streets.
Quick editing pace at tense parts of sequence.
Fade in and out to signal start and finish - Mainly straight cuts.

Research into Similar Products

Friday, 6 January 2012

Video Brief

VIDEO

Preliminary exercise: Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.

Main task: the titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes.
All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate, with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source.