Distribution

DISTRIBUTION COMPANIES

DreamWorks Studios was originally founded in 1994 by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen. It is an American film studio which develops, produces, and distributes films. There highest grossing film is Shrek 2 which's worldwide gross was $919,838,758. Dreamwork produces and distributes animations films such as Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar and Shark Tale. 

The company was founded in 1904 in New York City by William Fox, who sold his business to buy a 'common show'. A common show is the legal phrase for the exhibition of motion pictures in a store remodeled for that purpose and containing less than 299 seats. It distributes and produces films but Pathe and MGM also aid in production of their films. Their highest grossing film is Avatar which had a worldwide gross of $1,858,562,198. They produce and distribute many films from all genres, some popular films include Big Mommas House, The Omen and Ice Age.

Working Title Films is a British film production company, based in London. The company was founded by Tim Bevn and Sarah Radclyffe in 1983. The produce films only and are not involved in the distribution of films. Its highest grossing film being the British rom-com, Four weddings and a Funeral. It was an unexpected success, that brought them forward in the industry.

Warp Films was established by founders Rob Mitchell and Steve Beckett. It is backed by £4.5 million funding from the National Lottery, Film Four and regional screen agencies and by using the latest digital production methods. It produces and distributes low budget films, one of their most popular films being This Is England. 

Equipment List

Equipment List

Production Schedule

Production Schedule

Animatic

This is my groups animatic, which is photographs of our storyboard edited into one film. It is a good way to show our initial ideas for filming.

Thriller Conventions

Evaluation of Preliminary Task

After viewing our Preliminary Task I believe that there were both successful parts and bits that we could improve in with filming and editing.

I feel that our music timing was very successful as it cut as soon as I pulled the headphone out of my ear, the timing was very accurate. I also believe that our scene transitions worked well and our filming techniques were quite successful.We have a match on action shot at the very start of the sequence, which was part of the brief and we stuck to the 180-degree rule well, which helps the audience to understand who is talking and means that both eye lines of the characters work.

I feel that the sound at some parts were distracting, when I enter the room and speak at in two different shots, in the second shot the fan is louder than in the first meaning that it doesn't flow as well as we would want to as you are aware of the sound. If we could do it again then I think the use of a boom mic would be helpful to make the speech a lot clearer. We also 'lost' a dialogue clip therefore had to play about with what we had to improvise. 

However overall I believe that it was a good effort for our first time using the equipment and editing software and I am pleased with the outcome.

180 Degree Rule

Meaning

The rule states that the camera(s) should remain the same side of an imaginary line. The line is drawn perpendicular to the camera's viewpoint in the establishing shot of the scene. The rule enforces continuity of the film.

The rule should never be broken, unless for 'effect'. If you do break the rule it will leave the audience confused in a conversation. Crossing the line when filming over the shoulder shots shifts the person's eye line do not match.