IT (2017 film remake)
IT (2017 film remake) also known as 'IT chapter two' is a supernatural horror film based on Stephen Kings 1986 novel with the same name. It is the first film in the IT film series as well as being the second adaption following Tommy Lee Wallace's 1990 miniseries. The film tells you a story of seven children in Derry, Maine only to face their own personal demons in the process. The film is also known as IT: Part 1 - The Loser's club. The film is directed by Andy Muschietti and written by Chase Palmer. The locations for It included the municipality of Port Hope, Oshawa, Ontario, and Riverdale, Toronto - (Wikipedia). IT premiered in Los Angeles on September 5 2017 and was released in the US on September 8th 2017 in 2D. It received positive reviews, with critics praising the performances, direction, cinematography and musical score, and many calling it one of the best Stephen King adaptations - (Wikipedia).
Beginning: In October 1988, Bill Denbrough crafts a paper sailboat for Georgie, his six-year-old brother. Georgie sails the boat along the rainy streets of small town Derry, Maine, only to have it fall down a storm drain. As he attempts to retrieve it, Georgie sees a clown in the drain, who introduces himself as "Pennywise the Dancing Clown".
End: As summer ends, Beverly informs the group of a vision she had while catatonic, where she saw them fighting It again as adults. The Losers swear a blood oath that they will return to Derry as adults if It returns. After the others make their goodbyes and disperse, Beverly and Bill discuss her leaving the next day to live with her aunt in Portland. Before she leaves, Bill reveals his feelings and they kiss. (ALL INFO FROM WIKIPEDIA)
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The cast of the film was; Bill Skarsgard, Finn Wolfhard, Sophia Lillies, Jaeden Martell, Jack Dylan Grazer, Wyatt Oleff, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Chosen Jacobs, Jackson Robert Scott, Nicholas Hamiliton.
It: Chapter One and It: Chapter Two are set in the fictional town of Derry (Maine). The producers had already planned to make a sequel of the movie when filming the first one, set in 1989. The second part, that premiered in September 2019, reviews the events of the film released in 2017, from the point of view of the kids as adults, 27 years later. It was filmed in the town of Port Hope and around Toronto in Canada. Please scroll down to find the specific filming locations of Chapter Two (info from www.atlasofwonders.com). The BFI is the lead agency for film in the UK. The BFI Film Fund has a number of funding strands, investing over £26m of Lottery funds per year to support film development, production (incl. majority and minority co-productions) and distribution activity in the UK.
They started filming 'IT 2017' on June 2016 at Pinewood Toronto studios and on locations in and around Port Hope, Oshawa, Ontario and Riverdale, Toronto, and it ended in September 21, 2016. The film was released on September 8 2017 and grossed over $700 million worldwide, against a production budget of $35 million. Hugo Weaving and Bill Skarsgård were the two finalists for the role of Pennywise after Will Poulter left the project. Jack Dylan Grazer (Eddie) was the first one out of all the kids to work with Bill Skarsgård (Pennywise). During their scene, Grazer would cry and gag while Skarsgård was right in his face yelling and drooling. Skarsgård was genuinely concerned for Grazer and after the scene ended, asked him if he was okay. Grazer looked right at him and said, "Love what you're doing with the character!" Skarsgård was left confused and impressed at Grazer's attitude, calling the child actors "little professionals."
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What might be the disadvantages/advantages of single camera productions?
Advantages:
-Saves a lot of money and reduces cost.
-Doesn't require a lot of cameramen.
-Stored all in one place/no loss of footage.
Disadvantages:
-May run out of batteries so will take longer.
-Takes a lot of time, can't match actions.
-Requires everything to be done right and mistakes could mean they have to start all over again.
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'London to Brighton' case study
What does the making of London to Brighton teach us about?
- Funding Film Projects
The founders wanted to make a comedy/horror film but it cost too much money so they made a Social British realist film. They tried to keep costs low, it was financed with private equity and completion money from the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund with a budget of roughly £80,000. To keep costs low it was filmed over 18 days using Guerilla filmmaking.
Storyline:
It's 3:07am and two girls burst into a run down London toilet. Joanne is crying her eyes out and her clothing is ripped. Kelly's face is bruised and starting to swell. Duncan Allen lies in his bathroom bleeding to death. Duncan's son, Stuart, has found his father and wants answers. Derek, Kelly's pimp, needs to find Kelly or it will be him who pays. Kelly and Joanne need to get through the next 24 hours alive
Produced by Steel Mill Pictures which was founded in 2005 and distributed by Vertigo.
Directors/producers: Paul Andrew Williams and Ken Marshall
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'Shifty' case study
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Distributed in the UK by Metrodome. Shifty was taken to a film festival, there was 4 or 5 companies who wanted to buy the distribution rights. the producers and director chose Metrodome as they liked their ideas for marketing/advertising.
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Metrodome spent around £50,000 on prints and advertising, and had a viral advertising campaign.
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Emails were sent out, which appered to be an official letter identifying the receipient as a drug dealer, these emails then had a link to the Shifty website. There was so many complaints that this campaign was banned however, the publicity increased the profile of the film.
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Had a music comp. On the website where people could remix the soundtrack, winner would get £500 and a chance to profesionally record in studio.
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Metrodome made three different trailers to appeal to different audiences, one had a classical soundtrack, one had a hip-hop track - to widen target audiences. Used fly-posters, advertising on pirate radio statio.
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Viral advertising continued using drug-dealer 'buisness cards'.
What does the making of 'shifty' teach us about:
Funding film projects?
- That you don't need a load of money to make a film. 'Between the eyes' produced Shifty.
Director: Eran Creevy
Producers: Rory Aitken, Ben Pugh
Distribution company: Metrodome Distribution
'The Theory of everything' case study
The Theory of Everything is the story of the most brilliant and celebrated physicist of our time, Stephen Hawking, and Jane Wilde the arts student he fell in love with whilst studying at Cambridge in the 1960s.
Encompass New Opera Theatre’s production of The Theory of Everything is made possible with public funds from The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Access to Artistic Excellence in 2006 & in 2009; & The New York State Council on the Arts (a state agency).
The Theory of Everything received funding from OPERA America’s Opera Fund, launched by the NEA, is funded by the Helen F. Whitaker Fund, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Canada Council for the Arts, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The James S. and John L. Knight Foundation, and The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation.
Encompass is grateful for commissioning funds from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust’s Program for Contemporary Music Projects.
Encompass programs are supported by the Cornelius N. Bliss Memorial Fund; The Dramatists Guild Fund; The Edith Meiser Foundation: the Virgil Thomson Foundation; The Word Works; The New York Times Co. Fdn. and our Generous Patrons. (info from https://www.encompasstheatre.org/the-theory-of-everything/funding)
The budget for this film was 15 million USD.
Produced by: Working title films
Distributed by: Universal Pictures International
Director: James Marsh
'Life in a day' case study
On July 2010, thousands of people around the world uploaded videos of their lives to youtube to take part in Life in a Day, a historic cinematic experiment to create a documentary film about a single day on earth.
Ridley Scott & Tony Scott: co-founders of Scott Free Productions
Life in a Day is a crowdsourced drama/documentary comprising of video footage selected from 80,000 videos/clips. A documentary shot by film-makers all over the world that serves as a time capsule to show future generations what it was like to be alive on the twenty-fourth of July, 2010.
Kevin MacDonald spent a horrific week doing press around the world: Korea in the morning, Latin America in the afternoon. He did 26 US breakfast TV shows in one day via satellite, coming in with his pitch between ads for pop tarts and stories about puppies. Fortunately, he had two big advantages: free advertising space on YouTube and Ridley Scott as executive producer. Scott made a short film imploring would-be directors to just grab a camera, get out there and start shooting. (information from https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/jun/07/life-in-a-day-macdonald )
His aim was to create a whole movie from intimate moments – the extraordinary, the mundane, the preposterous – and thereby take the temperature of the planet on a single day, 24 July. Contributors would upload their films to YouTube, and let Kevin and a team of editors turn their footage into something that captured a day of human experience. That was the theory behind Life in a Day, anyway; the execution turned out to be far from simple.
Produced by: Liza Marshall
Distributed by: National Geographic society
Director: Kevin Macdonald, Loressa Clisby
Production company: Scott free productions
What is the difference between...
Crowdsourcing:
the practice of obtaining information or input into a task or project by enlisting the services of a large number of people, either paid or unpaid, typically via the internet.
Crowdfunding:
Crowdfunding is the practice of funding a project or venture by raising small amounts of money from a large number of people, typically via the Internet. Crowdfunding is a form of crowdsourcing and alternative finance. In 2015, over US$34 billion was raised worldwide by crowdfunding.
So in concusion, crowdsourcing is the sourcing of anything from a crowd and crowdfunding is the sourcing of funds from a crowd.
'Veronica Mars' case study
What is a prosumer?
A prosumer is a person who consumes and produces media.” The term comes from 'prosumption', an Internet era business term that means 'production by consumers'.
Veronica Mars is an American teen noir mystery drama television series created by screenwriter Rob Thomas. The series is set in the fictional town of Neptune, California and stars Kristen Bell as the eponymous character
On March 13 2013, Rob Thomas and Kristen Bell launched a fundraising campaign to produce the film through Kickstarter, offereing various incentives to those who donated $10 or more. It got the $2 million goal in less than 11 hours. On it's first day at kickstarter, it broke the record of fastest project to reach first $1 million, then $2 million. It also achieved the highest minimal pledging goal achieved and became the largest succesful film project on kickstarter at the time. On it's final campaign day the project broke the record for most backers on a single kickstarter project. Afterwards, the film earned a greenlight from Warner Bros Digital Distribution. Veronica Mars ended in 2007 after that troubled third season, but despite the resentment fans felt toward that final season, their love for the show was still strong. When Thomas announced in 2013 that he was launching a Kickstarter for a fan-funded Veronica Mars movie, fans went immediately for their pocketbooks. Crowdfunding by fans; was funded by a kickstarter campaign, which raised $5,702,153 by 91, 585 backers.
Produced by: Spondoolie Pictures, Rob Thomas.
Distributed by: Warner Bros
Director: Rob Thomas
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Kickstarter: "Blue like Jazz" by Steve Taylor (2012)
A feature film based on Donald Miller's New York Times bestselling memoir, directed by Steve Taylor and starring Marshall Allman. Blue Like Jazz is a 2012 American comedy-drama film directed by Steve Taylor and starring Marshall Allman, Claire Holt, and Tania Raymonde. It is based on Donald Miller's semi-autobiographical book of the same name. Miller, Taylor, and Ben Pearson co-wrote the screenplay.
Pledged; $345,992
4,495 backers
Overview: Don, a nineteen-year-old sophomore at a Texas junior college, tries to escape his Bible Belt upbringing for life in the Pacific Northwest at the most godless campus in America.
The film cost 1.2 million USD to make. One of the founders of kickstarter, Yancey Strickler, only six films have ever raised more than $100,000 through the website as of May 2011. Taylor didn't believe that this fundraising effort would work, so he agreed to personally call and thank every donator of more than $10 if they met the target goal of $125,000. By October 2010, $345,992 had been donated through the website towards the film. Considering so much money had been raised through Kickstarter, the backer from Seattle matched that amount and contributed even more. Taylor was able to shoot the film for $750,000 and have an extra $500,000 left for post-production (info taken from wikipedia).
Why is pre-production so important?
Alien 3 sequel to Aliens
What went wrong? and why?
The film faced problems during production, including shooting without a script, and various screenwriters and directors were attached. Fincher was brought in to direct after a proposed version with Vincent Ward as director was cancelled during pre-production. One thing that went wrong with the production and making of the film is that they had already constructed expensive sets before they actually had a concrete storyline. This was because it was a sequel and they hadn't all agreed on an actual storyline before. $7 million had been spent on sets that were never used thanks to the ever-changing script before filming had even started. The original budget was $45 million which included Sigourney Weaver's fee of $5.5 million.They wasted a lot of money before they agreed on what the directors actually wanted. David Fincher went into production unprepared to deal with heavy studio interference and creative limitations, and re-writes and re-shoots frustrated the young director. He eventually left the project before post-production started.
What could have been done during the pre-production to have reduced or resolved the issues?
They could've just used one camera to reduce the amount of money since they already spent it on the set. Before buying the sets they could've agreed on a place instead of wasting all the money.
What is vertical intergration?
Vertical Integration is when a Media Company owns different businesses in the same chain of production and distribution. ... When a company expands its business into areas that are at different points on the same production path, such as when a manufacturer owns its supplier and/or distributor.
What is horizontal intergration?
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Horizontal Integration is where an organisation develops by buying up competitors in the same section of the market e.g. one music publisher buys out other smaller music publishers
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