Filming

Today we began filming our new film opening which all went to plan. We created all our story boards so that we were fully prepared and knew what to shoot, what angles to shoot from etc. Our group got the first part of our film shot on camera; which included our fantastic actor Steve! All we have left to do is our voiceovers and shoots outside of school which we will storyboard and plan to do hopefully this weekend. We will upload our footage onto the iMacs in tomorrow’s lesson and begin to start editing.

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Practice Filming

Here is our group practicing a shot for our film opening again

Practice Filming

Heres one of the ideas we are going to use in our film opening.

Final Decision

We have come to an agreement, along with Miss Foster that we are going to make a rather mysterious film opening, with a few twists within it..
Here are some images of the places we are looking to film in:

Film Opening

Our group have had many discussions about what we will base our film opening on and what genre we would like to do after having to scrap our spoof. We came to a decision that we were going to base it on Little Red Riding Hood, but in a modern day version, although we kept falling back into the cliche things of walking in the woods alone and thinking someone is following her. We had various ideas of how we were going to make this happen and make it brilliant, however whilst we were talking about it and planning it we discovered that there had already been a modern version of this film made, which was released early 2011 and most of the things we were hoping to include in ours was already put into this film.

Universal

Universal Pictures, a subsidiary of NBCUniversal is one of the six major movie studios founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, it is one of the oldest American movie studios still in continuous production. On May 11, 2004, the controlling stake in the company was sold by Vivendi Universal to General Electric, parent of NBC. The resulting media super-conglomerate was renamed NBC Universal, while Universal Studios Inc. remained the name of the production subsidiary. In addition to owning a sizable film library spanning the earliest decades of cinema to more contemporary works, it also owns a sizable collection of TV shows through its subsidiary NBCUniversal Television Distribution. It also acquired rights to several prominent filmmakers' works originally released by other studios through its subsidiaries over the years.

Its production studios are at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California. Distribution and other corporate offices are in New York City. Universal Pictures is the second-longest-lived Hollywood studio; Viacom-owned Paramount Pictures is the oldest by a month. In the 1920’s they made films such as White Youth and The Flamming disc to then go onto making films like Kick-Ass and Get Him To The Greek in 2010.

Dreamworks

DreamWorks Pictures, also known as DreamWorks, LLC, DreamWorks SKG, DreamWorks II Distribution Co., LLC, DreamWorks Studios or DW Studios, LLC, is an American film studio which develops, produces, and distributes films, video games and television programming. It has produced or distributed more than ten films with box-office grosses totaling more than $100 million each.

DreamWorks began in 1994 as an ambitious attempt by media moguls Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen to create a new Hollywood studio of which they own 72%. In December 2005, the founders agreed to sell the studio to Viacom, parent of Paramount Pictures. The sale was completed in February 2006. In 2008, DreamWorks announced its intention to end its partnership with Paramount and signed a $1.5 billion deal to produce films with India's Reliance ADA Group. Reliance provided $325M of equity to fund recreating Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks studio as an independent entity. The movie studio is 50% owned by Reliance which is led by Anil Ambani. They have made films such as Shrek, Kung Fu Panda, Bee Movie, Puss In Boots and Madagascar.

20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation is one of the six major American film studios as of 2011^[update]. It is located in the Century City area of Los Angeles, just west of Beverly Hills, the studio is a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.

The company was founded on May 31, 1935, as the result of the merger of Fox Film Corporation, founded by William Fox in 1915, and Twentieth Century Pictures, founded in 1933 by Darryl F. Zanuck, Joseph Schenck, Raymond Griffith and William Goetz.

20th Century Fox's most popular film franchises include Avatar, Star Wars, Ice Age, Garfield, Alvin and the Chipmunks, X-Men, Die Hard, Home Alone, and many many more, plus famous TV shows such as The Simpsons and Family Guy. Some of the most famous actors to come out of this studio were Shirley Temple, who was 20th Century Fox's first film star, Betty Grable, Gene Tierney, Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield.

Film Openings

Whilst watching various film openings, I came across this one which caught my eye. It did not seem the 'typical' film opening or what you would expect the film to be like, nevertheless it was still intriguing. The close up shot of the man in the water, followed by the title being smothered in smoke set the genre for me as being spooky yet very mysterious. However, whilst watching this I realised that the whole 2 minutes of the opening were set in black & white and it was also all slow motion, this makes me question whether the whole film will be like this or not and if so, I feel, narrows it down to a specific audience which could not benefit the film. The title of the film reflects what happens, you can see this in the high angle shot of the man and woman swimming to rescue as the men throw rope down to help them, which "The Fall" relates with, which is them falling in the water. It would be interesting to see what the rest of the film turns out to be like..

So Far

Since last blogging, we managed to do most of our filming and begin editing, however when we put part of our film together; our group, along with Miss Foster did not feel that it was going to plan and it was not turning the way we expected it to or wanted it too. We all went away over the christmas holidays and tried to think of various ideas, we agreed we would base it on a 'horse theme' but due to other difficulties we couldn't go aead with this idea. Our group had a chat with Miss Foster today as we aren't focused on a solid plan yet and need to get filming, we are all going to have a think over the next couple of days and see what we have come up with by then and try to make a final decision.