Hello and welcome to my blog, where you will find a record of the background research and planning of my slasher film opening, High Royds. Here you will also find my colleagues work as well as i worked with several others over the past six months. The film which inspired our film opening is Madhouse (2004, William Butler).

Thursday 14 February 2013

Asylum Treatment

This is our treatment created for the purpose of defining our planned film Asylum. All the information for the film is included in our treatment. The films we are referring to are Mad House and Silent House we are going to include references to these films in our opening which will also help us to define that our film is in the slasher genre depending on the conventions we will be using, whether they are similar to previous films or our own.
 

Tuesday 12 February 2013

The Asylum 2013 (Teaser Trailer)




For our trailer shoot we didn't find anything to difficult whilst we were filming. As we had planned previously on what we needed for the trailer (the lab coat) all we had to do was get a number of different shots of the patient walking through the corridor. Though there is little we knew that we were going to include alot of editing e.g the newspapers and sound to add tension to our trailer.




We used shots like this to provide the mise en scene that the film is set in a mental hospital




 Well also used medium shots to provide narrative enigma to hide the patient. We sustained this narrative enigma through out our trailer




As we followed our storyboard it wasn't difficult to film all the shots as we got all the filming done in under an hour.



Wednesday 6 February 2013

The Big 6

The Major Film Companies are:


  • Conglomerate Parent division Major studio subsidiary Arthouse/"indie" distribution subsidiaries Genre/B movie distribution subsidiaries Other divisions and brands U.S./Can. market share (2012)[1]
  • Sony Sony Pictures Entertainment Columbia Pictures Sony Pictures Classics Screen Gems TriStar Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, Destination Films, Triumph Films, Stage 6 Films, Affirm Films 17.0%1  
  • Time Warner Warner Bros. Entertainment Warner Bros. Pictures New Line Cinema, HBO Films, Castle Rock Entertainment, Turner Entertainment Co., Warner Bros. Animation, DC Entertainment 15.4%2
  • The Walt Disney Company The Walt Disney Studios Walt Disney Pictures Touchstone Pictures, Pixar, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Marvel Studios, Disneynature, Lucasfilm 14.3%3
  • Comcast/General Electric NBCUniversal Universal Pictures Focus Features Universal Animation Studios, Illumination Entertainment, Working Title Films 13.6%4
  • Lions Gate Entertainment Lionsgate Motion Picture Group Lionsgate Films Roadside Attractions (partial equity) Summit Entertainment (acquired in January 2012)[2], Mandate Pictures, Pantelion Films 11.8% 5
  • News Corporation Fox Entertainment Group 20th Century Fox Fox Searchlight Pictures 20th Century Fox Animation, Fox Faith, Blue Sky Studios, New Regency Productions (20% equity), Fox Animation Studios 10.6%6.
  • Viacom Paramount Motion Pictures Group Paramount Pictures Paramount Vantage Insurge Pictures, Nickelodeon Movies, MTV Films 8.5%7

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Tuesday 5 February 2013

ALL Are We Creating British Cinema




This is our podcast on are we creating british cinema?
It includes:

  • American or british?
  • Who makes these big budget british film
  • Comparing films Aimed for the worldwide audience and just british cinema
  • The budgests for these films
  • who funds these films