Pitch:
A pitch is a concise verbal (and sometimes visual) presentation of an idea for a film or TV series generally made by a screenwriter or direct or to a producer or studio executive in the hope of altercating development finance to pay for the production.
To make a good film pitch, these are the following questions you should be able to answer or be able to come across -
What genre is your film?
What other films in this genre have inspired your film/is your film similar too?
Who is the target audience for your film?
When will your film be released (Summer, Spring, Autumn, Winter, awards season)?
Learning Objective:
To be able to indicate how film distribution works
To begin to understand the difference between the US and UK film system.
What is the purpose of a film distributor ?
- Release The Film - Cinema, Online, DVD, VHS
- Promotion - Adverts, Trailers, Posters
- Charge A Fee
- Branding
- Self Promotion
Film Distribution:
A film distribution is the link between the producer and the exhibitors. (The cinema chains, television networks); Their aim is to get as many people as possible to see the film.
They they incharge of getting the film a rating (an age certificate) which is done by the regular bodies, such as a BBFC and MPAA, arranging exhibition outlets globally and DVD/Television rights, arranging for pronts of the film.
Art student league - Graphic DesignerWorked as commercial artist
Bass mostly worked in advertisement
In 1964 Bass began directing his own films ; including, The Searching Eye (1964), From Here to There (1964) and Why Man Creates (1968)
In 1950 he went on to opening he's own studio to work in advertising.
These are some of saul Basses Work...
This is one of the designs that Saul Bass designed for the movie, "Carmen Jones" Because of this brilliance of a advertising poster, Preminger asked Bass to create the film title sequence too.
One is pressed to cite an example of an active, self contained, and the characteristic credits sequence in film prior to the work of Saul Bass. Undoubtedly, there are examples that presage Bass' pioneering work; namely, the famous final credits of Citizen Kane reprise excerpts from the film, underscoring the footage with actors names. Likewise, overtures frequently preceded films of the 30s and 40s. Many of these are visually complimented by static credits, and in some cases a montage. And despite these examples, in regard to innovation, renown, and influence, Bass impact in credits design remains virtually unparalleled, even to this day.
Bass expertise in design exhibits a range (his corporate identites and posters are also durable graphic statements), yet his distinguishing aesthetic is one of economy and simplicity. It is in this regard that his work in credits design is of particular significance-his the overture. Elsewhere (and numerously), he employs hand drawn type and cutout construction paper shapes.
In 1964, after sixteen years as a collaborator, Bass began directing his own films including The Searching Eye (1964), From Here to There (1964) and Why Man Creates (1968). His latter effort resulted in an Academy Award-an appropiate gesture of recognition, as Bass may be credited for enhancing the visual strategy of cinema, assigning it another dimension.
Bass techniques are various and decidedly inconsistent: cutout animation, montage, live action, and type design to name only his more prominent excercises. Secondly, Bass exhibits an exemplary use of colour and movement. Often sequences begin with a sold, empty frame of colour (as with Exodus blue or North by Northwest's green). His design tactic in this context, although charecterisitic, possesses subtly and variety.
Questions that the viewer finds interesting (sets up enigma)
Patterns and types of editing that will be echoed in the remainder of the film
Mise En Scene and cinematography that will be echoed or elaborated upon later in the film.
ORDER OF TITLES:
Studio
(Director)
Stars - In order/reverse order of fame
Crew
Writer ( Screen play)
Producer
Director
Tuesday 8 November 2011
ZOMBIE LAND TITLE SEQUENCE.
At the start of the zombie land title sequence, a bell rings. This gives me the impression that wherever the film is set, every hour the bell goes off, but in this case it could mean for every kill the zombie does the bell rings. It also could represents a church, as every life that has been taken away by the zombies all the humans know about it. As you can see a zombie is chucking a worker off the stairs after the noise of the bell.( The bell represents Time to die)
Throughout each shot of this short title sequence, you see the cast and crews names who took part in the film in red. I think its in red to show that the film is going to be a horror, and that there will be some sort of killing in the film, as red is referred to death and danger.
During the titles of the cast and crews it shows zombies attacking pedestrians, with blood stains on there top and blood splurging out of there mouths. This tells us that the film will be about zombies trying to take over the city in any shape or form. It also brings out the comedy side to the film as in one clip there is a stripper zombie chasing a human, so I think even though its gory and dark there elements in film that's funny.
I think that the music is main part of mise-en-scene in this piece, as the music is very dark and aggressive. This gives me the impression that the film will be very loud and will be very hectic as the music is as well. Also the music is all on top of each other, which is creating that tension for the film to start its opening scene.
The soundtrack which is playing through the title sequence has a lyric saying, "Shouting gun, on they run through the endless grey..." These lyrics also gives the impression that its about death and killing as its talking about guns. Also when it says, "on they run through the endless grey". It could lead to mean that the zombies who are trying to take over the city are running out there enemies into a tunnel of death.
This is my groups continuity piece.
Before shooting this sequence my group had to draw out storyboards, so we had a brief idea what we was doing. This was easy as all we needed to do was to take shots of someone walking into a room, sitting down, with short dialogue. This needed to include three main shots such as, 180 degree rule, Match on Action and Shot Reverse Shot.
It was a fun task playing a role in the film, but it was a long process as we had to keep re-shooting because we struggled on the match on action shot. I enjoyed playing a role as I like acting but it was a challenge not to laugh or make faces because our film was very serious. Also the filming went really smoothly as everything on the story board was right, from the dialogue to each shot we was going to do.
In the future I would like to do some work on the cameras as it looked fun and I would like to improve my camera skills. After Shooting all the shots of the piece, we had to edit them on iMac's. It was a tricky process as it was hard to make the match on action shots perfect so the short film flowed and not make it jumpy.
