RESEARCH Cherry Falls

Verdict

The film opening of Cherry falls is a couple who are being intimate and showing obvious sexual attraction between the two. The cuts are mostly close up and are short. The editing is fast paced with sinister non - diegetic music in the background which makes the audience hold their breathe. The couple have a small argument and the shot goes from inside the car to the outside from a stalkers POV.This is a common convention in slasher films. There is non- diegetic sound in the background such as crickets chirping and wind blowing to create the verisimilitude. There is another car that pulls up and the male gets out of the car to play the role of the strong hero, while the girl stays and watis for him to return. The actress holds her fright and sadness throughout the film opening and never 'recovers'.

To sum it up

• Fast paced editing.
• Large variety of different shots.
• Use of close ups (with hand placement, to show more emotion).
• The characters are frightened throughout. 
• Use of diegetic and non - diegetic sound to create verisimilitude.

How will we apply this to our film opening?

1. We will use a variety of shots and shorten our takes from our previous rough cut.
2. There wil be close ups of hand placements to signify more emotion.
3. To create verisimilitude the actor/actress will need to seem frightened even after the scare.
4. Have fast paced editing to keep the audience engaged. 

DISTRIBUTION Film Distribution of Four Lions (Warp)

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Four lions film distribution from ChristianStricks

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Film distribution of the film Four Lions (Warp, 2010) made in the same format as the previous comparison of film distribution.

OS INDUSTRY Star Wars: The Force Awakens

NDUSTRY RESEARCH Star Wars: The Force Awakens

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Facts/ Successful from OliStr

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Here is a post highlighting why Star Wars: The Force Awakens was such a successful movie.

JC INDUSTRY Les Miserables

Les miserables analysis from James Clinnick

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Analysis of Les miserables, the post shows the box office, figures, age ratings, distribution facts etc.

Re-Pitch

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Re Pitch/ review from ChristianStricks

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In this re-pitch we discuss how we have gotten audience feedback, updates to our blogs and about BBFC ratings.

DISTRIBUTION micro-budget films

Distributing a micro-budget film can be a very hard and complicated process for the film to become a success. Either getting a cinema release of having a DVD release are the best ways to make the film a success. There are two main ways of distributing your film, through a distributor or by yourself.

Through Distributors

The best way to find a distributor for your film is to get the film shown at a film festival. This method will be costly but if you take the risk and manage to get a screening then there will be likely success to follow in finding a distributor. Coz Greenop managed to get a screening at Cannes Film Festival, and got the attention of some distributors there. He also tried to contact many distributors on social media. He managed to the his film on DVD in Walmart (USA) and Tescos (UK) which are the largest DVD distributors in USA and UK.

The Top 10 distributors in 2017 (micro-budget films will most likely not be picked up by any of these distributors)

Self Distribution

Some people may chose to have full rights to the film and distribute themselves, which is a trickier process. The way this can be done is creating a website targeting the audience which the film is aimed for. The micro-budget indie can also be distributed through other platforms such as streaming websites (Netflix/Amazon Prime) which are much more open to indie and micro-budget films than VOD's such as iTunes. This method is a lot harder since you have to do all the marketing yourself but you keep a much large percentage of revenues.

Which Distributor?

There are many horror and low budget indie film distributors. You are probably not going to be picked up by any of the big 6, however there are many other good distributors as well.

Some of the distributors are:

• Terror Films
• Brain Damage films
• Hammer Film Productions
• Anthem Pictures
• Breaking Glass Pictures 

Here is the website for Terror Films which also will help distribute your film onto streaming services

(Click on image or here to go to website)

We would use Terror Films to distribute our final cut.

INDUSTRY Big 6 Power

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This shows how the big 6 are the most dominant companies. All the top 23 movies released in 2017 were made by a Big 6 company whereas other companies and subsiduries lie further down.

TITLES film "Austin Powers"

TITLE
Number of people/company names in titles: 27
Start/end time of main titles: 0:15-0:27, 1:35-5:07
Running time of main titles: 12 seconds for first set of titles, 3 minutes and 32 seconds
Titles in order using exact text: 

Capella International/ KC Medien Presents
In Association with New Line Cinema
A Moving Pictures/Eric's Boy Production
Mike Myers
Elizabeth Hurley
Michael York
Mimi Rogers
Robert Wagner 
Seth Green 
Fabiana Udenio 
Mindy Sterling
Paul Dillon
Charles Napier
Casting by John Papsidera
Music by George S. Clinton
Costumes Designed by Deena Appel
Editor Debra Neil-Fisher 
Production Designer Cynthia Charette
Director of Photography Peter Deming 

Executive Producers Eric McLeod 
                                      Claire Rudnick Polstein

Produced by Suzanne Todd
                        Demi Moore
                        Jennifer Todd
                        Mike Myers

Written by Mike Myers
Directed by Jay Roach




TITLES ANALYSIS 1: THE COMPANIES
There was 5 companies who were titled and these are the companies that help present and produce the film. Whereas the rest of the titles are people who either help create the mise -en-scene or the main stars/actors and actresses in the movie. These companies help finance the film and help get it to the cinema's/produce or publish the film.
TITLES ANALYSIS 2: ROLES
There was 13 specific roles given in the titles. All the actors were just listed, however the stars have their own listing without other names as they     on screen to make sure the audience knows who the stars are and who the cast are in this film. The people who helped create costumes, music etc. have been listed individually because of their importance to creating this film. Each one of them also have their role written above their name in a smaller font and in a different colour as well. This ensures the audience knows the difference between the names and the actual roles that those people have in creating the movie. Mike Meyers is mentioned more than once because he is one of the actors, the writer and one of the producers in the film. He is the most important person who has contributed to the film.

TITLES ANALYSIS 3: GENRE/NARRATIVE CONNOTATIONS
The titles are a serif font which contrasts every other aspect of the font which all signify comedy and seems to be targeted towards a younger audience. The serif font targets a older audience. The font is a very bubbly font which connotes that film genre is going to be a comedy and not a very serious film. The font also has the text starting with capital letters but then using lower case letters after the first letter, many films have just capital letters. The colours are very bright and there is a large variety of colours, again this takes the seriousness all out of the film. The titles are also on screen when the central protagonist is dancing around. Al these factors help anchor the main genre of this film. Which is  comedy. The font is very child friendly, but it is not made that way to attract a very young audience, because the BBFC rating is 15 and that is way to high for children to watch. This could be considered a binary opposite for films rated 15, for they normally have a more serious and dark font and colours no matter if its a comedy or not. The colours and bubble font seems to be chosen to suggest an immature comedy film. There is also no animation to the titles. 

Possible Influences 

We will most likely use this style in our titles as well, with around 20 of them, crediting the right people and actors/actresses in the same order. 

ANALYSIS Film Opening '71

'71

Yann Demange (2014)

BBFC 15, MPAA Rated: R

Running time of the opening sequence: 3:17

Budget: £8M

UK/US/World Box Office: £1.2M, $900K, £2.1M

Theatrical distribution in 12 countries 

 

Production co's:  Warp
Production financing:   Film4; Screen Yorkshire; Crab Apple Films
UK, US theatrical distributors: StudioCanal

LINKS: IMDB; RottenTomatoes (Users 81%, Critics 96%); BoxOfficeMojo; The-Numbers; Wiki; Official site/page; Facebook.

TRAILER
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-BaKfl1Ms4

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TITLES

Number of people/company names in titles: 3

Start/end time of main titles: 0:00- 0:40

Running time of main titles: 40 seconds

The three titles are:

Studiocanal

The main distributor of the film is studiocanal. This is also the first opening of the film therefor the most important company involved with the distribution of the film 

Film4

This is one of the commissioners for the movie and is one of the main ones in the UK. They "present" the film alongside BFI

BFI

This is the company that helped finance productions of the movie

All of the titles have no music or sound playing in the background which can get the audience to hold their breathe waiting in anticipation of what is about to happen.

TITLES ANALYSIS: ROLES

Only two specific roles were given, with 6 companies being mentioned. The 6 companies are Film4, BFI, Screen Yorkshire, Creative Scotland, Crab Apple Films and Warp Films. Crab Apple and Warp films are the main companies who have produced the film alongside the other 4 companies  

TITLES ANALYSIS 3: GENRE/NARRATIVE CONNOTATIONS

The font for the titles are a mix of large and small text like in a billing block to only highlight the important information which is the companies being shown. The font is serif and is only capital letters. The logo of warp is also shown in the title. The font denotes that the genre is not a comedy but more of a thriller. It suggests a serious tone to the movie. The titles are all on a black background, with the non diegetic sound of two men boxing in the background and other men cheering them on to really get the sense for what type of film '71 is. After the titles are done the sound of boxing continues and creates an audio bridge for about 10 seconds then it cuts to the first shot which is set in a military base with the main protagonist boxing another man and having the other soldiers cheer on.

FIRST SHOT + THE PROTAGONIST

The very first shot is a close up of two characters boxing each other panning to the right. It is obvious they are boxing because of the gloves, the shirts being drenched in sweet and the blood on their faces and mouth guards.The miss-en-scene helps anchor what exactly is going on. The opening sets the mood straight away. It is an unusual opening for there is no establishing shot. We can tell who the main protagonist is. For during the boxing sequence the camera was always focused using a shallow field of focus on him and after the sequence was done, the camera tracks the man to using close up and medium shots to show his emotion and start to make us sympathise with him. There is no voiceover for it is not needed to establish the main protagonist.  

ADDITIONAL POINTS

The establishing shot can be argued to be after the boxing sequence where there is an extreme long shot of the soldiers running down a hill as practice for the army. However this is more known as a master shot.

The army/ military camp continues to be shown as the soldiers are all practicing and training to be a soldier. The last shot of the opening is of the soldiers practicing shooting and the cut to the main film is with a gunshot and then as soon as the gunshot is heard the screen goes black, then the scene changes and the plot begins to develop.