devolpment, pre production, production, post production, and distribution
Development is the first thing to to do in the film/tv industry. This stage is essentially where the core of the show or film takes its shape. After developing the story a lot of screen writers the step afterwards is to write the scene by scene for the whole movie. A lot of writers will use index cards for every single scene. This makes it easier to rearrange. The step after this is to write the screen play. As soon as you have a strong image of the story structure then you should start writing the screenplay. The next step is probably the most painful for any film maker especially independent film makers. This is financing the movie. There are different ways of making a budget for a film is. 'The studio model" The strategy is to make a few films of the same genre,and then approach investors with the films. With this what you are trying to do is proving that you carry alot of creativity and can make the buyers money. Another way for funding a film to is to get government funding. Every year tens of millionsg et pumped into the film industry in Britain. The public money is currently coming from the BFI.
BFI finances budget to filmmakers. You can apply for the budget and wait for the outcome.
Another new way of budgeting a film is crowdfunding. Before 2011 crowdfunding wasn't really a big thing until campaigns on kickstater would raise over $100,000. The strategy is to produce a pitch on the kickstarter website and hope people find a interest in your production. The better you pitch you idea the more chance you have of getting invested.
Now that you have finished the development its time to pre produce. This is the stage where you should plan and make designs to prepare for the production of the movie. Making up a schedule for the filming will come in handy when producing the film. Story boards should be getting sketched up. Everthing that you need in to movie like costumes, set, locations, props, music and sound. At this stage the the cast and crew are also recruited. This included location manager, production manager,the casting director, the director of photography, the sound designer, art director, composer, the actors, the choregrapher and the Director. Storyboards are good for filmmaking because you can create it shot by shot. The more information you add the better. You don't nee d to be an artist to create a storyboard but each drawing should be readable. The main part of pre production is to time a shooting order. Doing this will save a lot of time this includes; location, weather, the time of day that you want to film and other things you want to add, little or small. Organising loctions will save you a lot of time because you wont have to go back and forth to different scenes.
Your film is going to need music. Pre production is a really good start to looking for music for you film. Having your own original soundtrack is gonna make your movie stand out from the other
s. You can find musician's either locally or on websites.
Creating posters for your film will make suspense for your film, it will also advertise your film before its even out.
The next step in filmmaking is production before this you should double check that all you preproduction is all set up. Firstly make a checklist of all the things you need. Always look after your actors, be very organised have chairs, snacks on set a long day of filming can be for tiring. Roughly a full days work of filming will only create about 3 minutes of footage used in the film. When you are shooting a scene you should start with the most difficult shot then work your way down to the easier shots. Having a photographer on set to get some behind the sceens shots. the more people you have making the film the better the produce will be which means more people will watch it which = £££.
Get one of the crew member to take a few snaps on their phone of the shoot. If you can share that quick photo up on facebook the more people will see what you're getting up to. When you're in production you should always be checking up on your budget the last thing you want to do is be in the middle of making a movie and run out of money. Always expect the unexpected you could be filming at a location that's prohibited. Then you can get kicked off the location for security. Always have backups for locations, actors ect. Also whilst filming you should never delete a shot even if you think it was a miss recording.
Now you have filmed your video the next part is post production. You should start this by reviewing all your footage, making sure you got every shot exactly the way you wanted and needed. After you review them you are ready to save them into files, make sure each shot is numbered in order. And do not delete any of the footage even if you think its an accidental recording. You should check over the footage with someone else having that other person can help pick out mistakes ect. Marking files could come in handy, for example if you have a good shot highlight that file green, if you have a okay shot highlight that yellow, if you have a bad/unusable shot highlight that file red. You should either use final cut pro or Adobe Premiere to edit your film. there are complex editing software's. Now its time for the editing, first of all you should edit your clips in high definition, these files will take up more memory but it will boost the quality of your video and it will make it look professional
add the music to your video make sure it all fits aesthically perfect, add the intro possibly the film title and then add the credits the credits should consist of actors, and everyone who was in help of making the film everyone to the director to the costume and prop designers. Having a original intro will be very cool. After the sound mixing is all up to perfect standards the next step is to finish off your editing making sure it is everything you wanted make sure nothing is forgotten and you're happy with your end product that you have worked very hard on.
The final step is to release and promotion after all that hard work is exported, you can finally finish you're marketing materials. You can make a start by advertising your video, you can be clever about this, for example if your video is a horror you can advertise your video at a rock festival. You can also make some high resolution screen shots that have come from the film with a short synopsis of the film. Create a premiere event, having this will make a big hype for your film. Also throwing a premiere is a really good way to thank you to your cast and crew for the hard work they put into the film. Another good way to promote is to get yourself to a film festival where you can show your film to other film makers.
Tv licence. BBC is a British Broadcasting Company that produced radio, film,news and websites for the public. BBC is a public company which is FUNDED by license fees which is paid annauly by everyone who has a tv which is most of the UK public. The licensee fee is £145.50 although you can pay for a black and white tv license for £49.00 All of the funding comes from the government. Anybody over the age of 75 can get their tv licence reduced so they don't have to pay for any of it, this does not come automatically, you have to apply for it.
If you dont pay for for a tv licence and you watch tv you are actually breaking the law this also goes to you watching tv programes,downloading or recording programes on a laptop, mobile, tablet, games console and dvds. If you are caught out you will be fined maximally £1,000. The maximum fine in Guernsey is £2,000 and in Jersey its £500. If you want to watch tv shows that are live then you need a tv licence, to watch BBC iplayer or on demand you will also need a tv licence. You will not need a tv licence to watch netflix, youtube or amazon instant video. You can also watch the itv hub or any other non BBC services. The fee that you pay gives you a range of radio, tv and online content. Some of the fee money goes into broadband in the UK which funds the TV channel s4c .
Comercial ownership companies in media which is privetly owned. The funding for comericial ownership comes from advertising. Adverts will run inbetween radio stations and television to promote products. Other companies will pay the radio or telivstion services to promotre their products. Comercial Broadcasting clashes with other paid services like radio, satalite and cable television.
Private ownership is a media company ownership that has nothing to do with the government this means that the money that you use to produce the film is coming out of your own wallet. Having a private company can be stressful at times private companies find it harder to raise money to produce simply because nobody can buy into their share holds. Public companies have to announce their financial statements were private companies don't. The main bad point of self funding is that you have to take caution of how you are spending your money as it you own money you're spending.
Subscription fees are when a company or business sells its product to the public to have access to it. Originally subscribing was made for magazines or newspapers. But now its used for music with: Spotify, Tiadal and apple music. Which charges for public to listen and download music with their apps. Tv and Film networks also use subscription's. Companies like Netflix, Amazon Prime and now TV. Games also use subscribing were people pay to play the game servers. Subscribing Funds is a good way for companies to earn money to make better products.
Advertising for funds. Other companies promote their products on tv shows when the adverts come up halfway through the show. This money goes to the network company. Although adverts can be done though magazines eg promoting clothes, perfume ect. Radio, blogs and websites. Websites such as YouTube sometimes have 5 second advertisement's that they make you watch before you can actually watch the video you wanted to watch. YouTube also have advertisements on the side of the webpage same with blogs. Most popular magazines charge fortunes to place advertisements in their magazines. Radio broadcasters can make money from businesses that want to promote their company across the radio example the radio presenter can advertise for a business.
Media conglomerate is one large media company which buys a number of different smaller companies. For example Disney who now own Marvel, Star Wars, ESPN, Pixar animation, Hollywood Pictures, Touchstone pictures, ABC entertainment, ABC digital, ABC family, ABC times square studio, and they even own their own theme parks. bringing in a revenue $52.46 billion(2015) Disney has a massive play in the TV and film industry. Publishing products such as cable television, publishing, films, music, video games, theme parks, radio and web portals. Disney was founded in 1923 on the 16th of October in Burbank, California. Disney first opened their Paris theme park on April 12th 1992 and even opened Disney world resort in 1971 October 1st. Also a Disney cruise was made 21 years ago. Disney was founded by Walt Disney with just him and a few workers making sketches now the company has over 180,000 employees. Disney is a public mass media company that dominated the media, they made $936,662,225 from the box office of Star wars: The Force Awakens.
Conglomerate media companies involve mass media enterprises examples like television, radio, publishing, motion pictures and even theme parks. A lot of critism has been called out to the larger conglomerates who are currently dominating media by ''taking all the other companies out of business'' and using ''unfair practices''.The benefits of media conglomerate is that the main company earns more money than it used to simply because of the sales from the company that it has bought, also the small company will gain money from the big company and will less likely go bust if there an even bigger company as a parent.
Although media conglomerate's have benefit's there are also some downfalls such as, decreasing competition for all the other media companies out there. With conglomerate media companies all the money will go to the same big companies it wont be distributed evenly.
Comcast is another example of a large conglomerate company who owns other company, Comcast is the largest conglomerate in terms of revenue. In 2014 Comcast reported to have a $69 billion in revenue. Comcast is a big producer of feature films and television shows which are consumed over the air and cable television broadcasts. Comcast own NBC and telemundo, CNBC, NBCSN, E!, The Weather Chanel and Universal Pictures. Universal Pictures have resorts in Los Angeles and Orlando. They also have resorts in Japan and Singapore. Comcast is family owned by the Roberts family using multiple generations serving as company executives.
Reference for my work
http://www.brighthub.com/multimedia/video/articles/77345.aspx
http://filmshortage.com/the-short-guide-to-making-an-awesome-short-part-5-release-promotion/
http://www.lavideofilmmaker.com/filmmaking/movie-making.html#story
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